- Dragan Zorić
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Competitor for Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia World Championships Gold 2005 Zagreb K-2 200 m Gold 2006 Szeged K-4 200 m Bronze 2006 Szeged K-2 200 m Silver 2007 Duisburg K-4 200 m Bronze 2007 Duisburg K-2 200 m Mediterranean Games Bronze 2005 Almería K-2 500 m Dragan Zorić (born May 20, 1979 in Bačka Palanka) is a Serbian sprint canoer who has competed from the late 1990s to 2007. Until 2006, he competed for Serbia and Montenegro. Zorić won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2006), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2007, and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 2006, 2007).
Competing in two Summer Olympics, his best finish was ninth in the K-4 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000.
Zorić is a member of the Sintelon Canoe Club in Bačka Palanka. He is 196 cm (6'5") tall and weighs 97 kg (214 lbs).
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-Reference.com profile
1994: Poland (Maciej Freimut & Adam Wysocki) * 1995: United States (Stein Jorgensen & John Mooney) * 1997: Hungary (Vince Fehérvári & Róbert Hegedűs) * 1998: Hungary (Vince Fehérvári & Róbert Hegedűs) * 1999: Hungary (Vince Fehérvári & Róbert Hegedűs) * 2001: Lithuania (Alvydas Duonėla & Egidijus Balčiūnas) * 2002: Lithuania (Alvydas Duonėla & Egidijus Balčiūnas) * 2003: Lithuania (Alvydas Duonėla & Egidijus Balčiūnas) * 2005: Serbia and Montenegro (Dragan Zorić & Ognjen Filipović) * 2006: Germany (Ronald Rauhe & Tim Wieskötter) * 2007: Belarus (Raman Piatrushenka & Vadzim Makhneu) * 2009: Belarus (Vadzim Makhneu & Raman Piatrushenka) * 2010: France (Arnaud Hybois & Sébastien Jouve) * 2011: France (Arnaud Hybois & Sébastien Jouve)1994: Russia (Anatoli Tishchenko, Oleg Gorobiy, Sergey Verlin, & Viktor Denisov) * 1995: Hungary (Krisztián Bártfai, Gyula Kajner, Antal Páger, & Gábor Pankotai) * 1997: Russia (Anatoli Tishchenko, Oleg Gorobiy, Sergey Verlin, & Aleksandr Ivanik) * 1998: Hungary (Gyula Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, István Beé, & Róbert Hegedűs) * 1999: Hungary (Gyula Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, István Beé, & Róbert Hegedűs) * 2001: Hungary (Gyula Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, István Beé, & Róbert Hegedűs) * 2002: Slovakia (Martin Chorváth, Rastislav Kužel, Ladislav Belovič, & Juraj Lipták) * 2003: Ukraine (Oleksiy Slivinskiy, Mykhaylo Luchnik, Mykola Zaichenkov, & Andriy Borzukov) * 2005: Hungary (Viktor Kadler, István Beé, Balázs Babella, & Gergely Gyertyános) * 2006: Serbia (Milan Djenadić, Ognjen Filipović, Bora Sibinkic, & Dragan Zorić) * 2007: Hungary (Viktor Kadler, István Bée, Gergely Boros, & Balázs Babella) * 2009: Belarus (Vadzim Makhneu, Raman Piatrushenka, Dziamyan Turchyn, & Taras Valko)Categories:- 1979 births
- Bačka Palanka
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Serbia and Montenegro
- Serbia and Montenegro canoeists
- Serbian canoeists
- Yugoslav canoeists
- European canoeist stubs
- Serbian sportspeople stubs
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