If there is no postponement of the decision due to the end of the European Handball Championship, where our national team is expected to fight for medals, the Montenegrin Olympic Committee will today choose the best athlete of 2014, the fourth in a row since 2011, when the best athlete of the country is chosen according to the new Law on Sports .
Based on the proposals received from sports associations, five athletes are in the competition - handball player Katarina Bulatović, water polo player Mlađan Janović, judoka Nikola Gušić, volleyball player Vojin Ćaćić and archer Čedomir Knežević, who, realistically, has no chance in the competition of the mentioned representatives of collective sports and Gušić.
Katarina Bulatović was already chosen as athlete of the year in 2012 together with Bojana Popović, and is the favorite for the new award. In the last year, the right back of our national team won the Champions League with Đero in May and was the third top scorer of the LŠ in the past season (72 goals), and in the current season the LŠ scored 19 goals in the first four matches for Buducnost, while the last two were suspended due to injury. At the European Championship, which entered the final phase, Bulatović is currently the top scorer of our national team, sixth overall in the championship with 32 goals, and has a chance to win another medal at the European championships.
Mlađan Janović, a member of the Turkish Galatasaray, last season in Rek, Italy, with the national team won a bronze medal in the World League (at the final tournament in Dubai he was the top scorer of our national team), and fourth place at the European Championship in Budapest, in July this year.
Vojin Ćaćić is the captain of the Montenegrin national volleyball team, which won the European League in July (by qualifying for the World League), which is the first trophy in the history of Montenegrin national volleyball. Last season, Ćaćić led Budva Riviera to the second stage of the Champions League (among the 13 best), and last Sunday he was chosen as the best volleyball player in Montenegro for the second time in a row.
Judoka Nikola Gušić won silver from the European Championship for juniors up to 23 years of age, in mid-November in Wroclaw, Poland, where he registered four wins and a loss in fights up to 73 kg. This year, he has one first and one third place at the European Cup in Belgrade and Sarajevo, respectively.
Finally, shooter Čedomir Knežević, the champion of Montenegro in the air pistol discipline, took 32nd place at the World Championship in Spain, in Granada, in September.
The official announcement of the athlete of the year will take place on December 24 in Villa "Gorica". Last year, the best athlete was water polo player Nikola Janović.
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