Montenegro waited 24 years for a boxer's medal from the European Championship. And welcomed by Tomislav Bat Đinović.
In the lightweight category, he was convincingly better than the second favorite, the Frenchman Younes Omraui, in the Aleksandar Nikolić hall in Belgrade.
Boxer BK Zlaticanin was the first after Tampere in 2000, Nikola Sjekloća and Milorad Gajović, from the European Championship, to win bronze, and for a bigger award, he will box against the third favorite, Russian Vsevolod Šumkov.
Without respect, the 19-year-old Đinović went after a taller opponent, dictated the fight, and after two minutes with a left hook, he forced the Italian referee in the ring to count the Frenchman. However, he did not give up and took tactics, but pushed the fight to the end and won unanimously.
Coach Momčilo Zlaticanin did not hide his surprise at the way in which his competitor won a European medal in his first senior year.
"The Frenchman is experienced and won silver from the previous European Championship, but Bato did not give 100, but 200 percent. The incredible desire and rhythm he imposed gave a result. But it also took its toll, because he is extremely tired. He still does not have the experience to save his strength for the next match he took too much risk in the third round. And the match to enter the final is already tomorrow. It's a bad circumstance that his match was the last in the afternoon program, but he will certainly give his best in every match. That's how he won tournament 'Belgrade winner' with four effective victories" said the coach of the national team of Montenegro and BK Zlaticanin, Momcilo Zlaticanin.
Two years ago, Montenegrin female boxers won European medals - Bojana Gojković won silver and Tamara Radumović won bronze.
The last medal of our boxers in Olympic boxing was bronze from the WC in Thailand Sjekloće, in 2002.
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