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Željko Dimitrijević

Serbian Paralympic athlete

Željko Dimitrijevic

Personal information

Birth name

Жељко Димитријевић

Nationality

Serbian

Born

(1971-01-04) 4 January 1971 (age 53)
Petrovac na Mlavi, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia

Sport

Athletics

Event

Club throw

Achievements and titles

Personal best

34.71 WR

Medal record

Representing Serbia

Men's Athletics
Paralympic Games
	2012 London	Club Throw F31-32/51
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Club Throw F51
	2020 Tokyo	Club Throw F51
IPC Athletics World Championships
	2015 Doha	Club throw - F51
	2017 London	Club throw - F51
IPC Athletics European Championships
	2016 Grosseto	Club throw - F51
	2018 Berlin	Club Throw - F51
	2021 Bydgoszcz	Club Throw - F51

Željko Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Димитријевић; born 4 January 1971) is a gold medal-winning Paralympian athlete from Serbia. He competes in seated throws in the F51 classification, a class for quadriplegics. He is the current world record holder in club throw.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics held in London, he won a gold medal in club throw, broke a world record and became first Paralympic gold medalist for Serbia.^[1] At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Dimitrijević won another gold medal in the same event with new world record (29.96 m).^[2]

At the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships, Dimitrijević won gold medal in club throw in the F51 classification with a new world record of 34.71 m.^[3]

References

^ "Prvo zlato za Srbiju: Željko Dimitrijević oborio svetski rekord". Blic. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
^ "KAKAV PODVIG Dimitrijeviću paraolimpijsko zlato u Riju uz svetski rekord, Mitiću srebro!". Blic. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
^ "SVAKA ČAST, MAJSTORI Željko Dimitrijević osvojio zlato i oborio SVETSKI REKORD, a Aleksandar Radišić se okitio bronzom na prvenstvu Evrope za paraolimpijce". Blic. 2 June 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.