Veselin Jevrosimovic: "This is historic success for Serbian athletics, we have never had more talents"

The president of the Athletics Federation of Serbia, Veselin Jevrosimovic, pointed out at a press conference after the greatest success in the history of Serbian athletics -Ivana Vuleta's gold medal at the World Outdoor Championships in Budapest - that this is a historic medal and that everyone is proud of it.

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Jevrosimovic stressed that he knew that Ivana would win the gold medal as soon as he saw her on the day of the final, because she never looked better.

"This is a historic success of the Athletics Federation of Serbia in general. A historic medal that we have been waiting for for so long, especially Ivana. We are all proud of what happened in Budapest, I can only say what my feeling was when Ivana jumped her 7.14 (meters), the feeling was more than incredible. Although, I knew it, since I was visiting along with the president of Serbia, when I saw her, I knew we had gold in our hands. She never looked better."

Jevrosimovic also referred to other Serbian track and field athletes and congratulated them on their successes while facing tough competition.

Photo: Marko Jovanovic

"Also, I would like to congratulate all the athletes who participated in the World Championship, we had three finals, our Angelina came seventh, she, like Adriana, did her work in Jerusalem, when they won the gold medal at the European Junior Championship.

Although a junior, this is the first year of her senior junior career and to finish seventh at the World Championship amid extremely strong competition, that's worthy of applause for Angelina. Also, Sinancevic reached the final, he had never faced such competition and took ninth place."

The head of Serbian athletics also spoke about other medal winners in junior competition.

"I want to praise and congratulate Teodora Boberic and Aleksandrija Mitrovic, who won medals at the European Junior Championship. Teodora won the silver medal and Aleksandrija won bronze. Congratulations to the coaches. What I want to add is that athletics is making big strides, we have never had more talented athletes and I am sure that at some future point everyone will be pleasantly surprised by the results in big junior and senior competitions," said Jevrosimovic.

(Telegraf.rs)