Table tennis player Filip Radović is the most successful Montenegrin Paralympian in 2024, the Management Board of the Paralympic Committee of Montenegro decided.
He earned his seventh athlete of the year award by winning the bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
He is currently the second player in the world senior ranking, in the S10 category.
He completed his successful year with trophies from tournaments in Podgorica and Laško, considered by many to be one of the strongest in the world.
In Paris, Radović won the sixth individual award from the biggest world competitions.
Bronze was also at the Games in Tokyo, while playing in the finals at the European Championships in Helsingborg 2019 and Sheffield 2023.
He also has bronze medals won in the Danish Vejle in 2015 and Laško in 2017.
With Luka Bakić and Dejan Bašanović, he won the team bronze from Helsingborg.
Vladimir Marić, who led Radović and Luka Bakić at the Games in Paris, was declared the best coach.
A special award for top sporting achievement will be presented to chess player Predrag Nikač, winner of the bronze medal at the IBSA World Individual Championship for people without and with visual impairments in Petrovac.
In his career, he has a gold and a silver medal from the World Singles Championship for visually impaired people in Cagliari in 2019 and four years later in Rhodes, organized by the International Chess Organization for the Visually Impaired (IBCA).
He also won gold medals on the first board of the Blind and Visually Impaired Olympics in 2017 and the first board of the first Paralympics last year in Belgrade.
He is the first champion of independent Montenegro, and four times he was national champion in the regular program.
The board of directors also decided to award recognition for exceptional sports results to the participants of the Games in Paris - Maja Rajković, Milan Đinović and Luka Bakić.
The most successful young athlete, for the third consecutive year, is swimmer Iskra Dedivanović, who broke personal records at the World Series meetings in Linjan and Berlin and won medals at regional paraswimming competitions.
The most successful team is the national team of Montenegro, finalist of the European Championship - B division in Linjan.
By reaching the finals, they ensured their return to the A division, among the ten best selections in Europe.
The successful year of the Montenegrin goalball players was completed by the team from Nikšić by winning the bronze medal at the final tournament of the Champions League.
The solemn ceremony of announcing the best will be held on November 22 at 18 p.m. in the Ramada Hotel in Podgorica.
The ceremony is planned as part of the ceremonial academy marking 15 years since the international recognition of the Paralympic Committee of Montenegro.
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