Tonight, table tennis player Filip Radović was awarded the award for the best Montenegrin Paralympian in 2019, in the traditional selection of the Montenegrin Paralympic Committee.
This year, Radović won a silver medal individually and a bronze medal in the team at the senior European championship in Helsingborg.
He also won gold at the European Youth Paralympic Games in Lahti, in the competition of players under the age of 23, and won medals at the Masters in Linjan, Laško and Lahti.
Radović takes third place in the senior ranking in the S10 class, while he is in the leading position in the junior competition.
"I am extremely honored to have been chosen as the athlete of the year for the third time by the Montenegrin Paralympic Committee. I am proud to have been part of the team that wrote new pages in the history of Paralympics in Montenegro in Helsingborg. I hope we will continue on that path," he said. is Radovic.
He thanked the Paralympic Committee and the Ministry of Sports and Youth for their long-term support.
The most successful national team is the table tennis national team of Montenegro, which, consisting of Filip Radović, Luka Bakić and Dejan Bašanović, won the bronze medal at the EP in Helsingborg, the first team in the history of Montenegrin Paralympic sports.
The most successful coach is Nicolae Lupulescu, coach of Filip Radović and the table tennis team of Montenegro.
Judoka Adnan Kujović, who was fourth at the European Youth Paralympic Games in the competition for people with visual impairments, was declared the most successful young athlete.
Chess player Predrag Nikač, who won gold in the individual world championship for people with visual impairments from Cagliari, and the Montenegrin goalball team, which played the final of the European Championship C division in Lakvila, Italy, received recognition for their outstanding sports results.
Awards to the most successful were presented at the ceremonial academy on the occasion of ten years of international recognition by the Paralympic Committee.
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