Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Serbia and Montenegro
games=2004 Summer
competitors= 87 (80 men, 7 women)
sports= 14
flagbearer=Dejan Bodiroga
gold=0
silver=2
bronze=0
rank=61

Serbia and Montenegro competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The nation competed previously as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the 2000 Summer Olympics. This was the last appearance of a joint Montenegrin and Serbian state at the Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Results by event

=Athletics=

The top finish for Serbia and Montenegro in Athletics was a 6th place in the Women's marathon from Olivera Jevtić. Jevtić stayed with the leading group through 30 kilometres, but when the medalists headed off the front of the pack, she was unable to match them, ending up around four minutes back. The only other top-10 performance came from Dragutin Topić, who set a season's best in qualifying for the men's high jump final.

Men's 110 metre Hurdles:
* Nenad Loncar
**Round 1: 14.02 s (8th in heat 1, did not advance, 46th overall)

Men's High Jump:
* Dragutin Topić
**Qualification: 2.28 m (6th in Group A, "Qualified", T-9th overall)
**Final: 2.29 m (10th overall, did not advance) ("Season Best")

Men's Shot Put:
* Dragan Perić
**Qualification: 18.91 m (17th in Group B, did not advance, 32nd overall)

Men's 20 kilometre Walk:
* Predrag Filipović
**1:31:35 (39th overall)

Men's 50 kilometre Walk:
* Aleksandar Raković
**4:02:06 (23rd overall)

Women's Marathon:
* Olivera Jevtić
**2:31:15 (6th overall)

Women's Discus Throw:
* Dragana Tomašević
** 54.44 m (20th in Group B, did not advance, 38th overall)

=Basketball=

The men's team from Serbia and Montenegro had won gold at the 2002 World Basketball Championships as team Yugoslavia, but in Athens they struggled, putting up the worst Olympic performance in their history. At the World Championships, they had beaten New Zealand in the semifinals and Argentina in the finals to claim the title. In Athens, both earned their revenge, beating the Serbia and Montenegro team in group play. Losses to Spain and China, 12th at the 2002 Worlds, resulted in a last place finish in the group. The team did beat Angola in the 11th place game, but overall, the tournament was a disappointment. The team's leading scorer was guard Milos Vujanic with 13.5 points per game, while Dejan Tomasevic led in rebounds with 9.2 per game.

Men's Competiton:

* Team Roster
**Point Guards
***Vule Avdalovic
***Milos Vujanic
**Shooting Guards
***Dejan Bodiroga "Captain"
***Igor Rakocevic
***Vlado Scepanovic
**Small Forwards
***Aleksandar Pavlovic
**Power Forwards
***Vladimir Radmanovic
**Centres
***Predrag Drobnjak
***Nenad Krstic
***Đuro Ostojić
***Petar Popović
***Dejan Tomasevic

* Pool A
** Lost to Spain (68 - 76)
** Defeated Italy (74 - 72)
** Lost to Argentina (82 - 83)
** Lost to China (66 - 67)
** Lost to New Zealand (87 - 90)
*6th in group, did not advance (1 W, 4 L, 377 PF, 388 PA)
**11th Place Classification: Defeated Angola (85 - 62) (11th overall)

=Canoeing=

Flatwater

Filipovic and Zoric were just 0.3 seconds from qualifying for the final in the 500 metres race, but fell just short.

Men's K-2 500 metres:
* Ognjen Filipović and Dragan Zorić
**Heat: 1:31.985 (3rd in heat 3, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 1:32.150 (4th in semifinal 1, did not advance, 11th overall)

Men's K-2 1000 metres:
* Ognjen Filipović and Dragan Zorić
**Heat: 3:19.299 (6th in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 3:58.793 (8th in semifinal, did not advance, 14th overall)

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Men's Road Race:
* Ivan Stević
**Did not finish

Stevic pulled out on lap 11, having fallen well behind the main pack.

=Football (Soccer)=

The Serbia and Montenegro team was the only team in the Olympic football tournament not to earn a single point, losing all three of their matches, ending up last in both goals scored and allowed. They tied their last game with Tunisia in the 87th minute, but gave up an 89th minute goal to lose it.

Men's Competition:

* Team Roster
**Goalkeepers
***Aleksandar Canovic
***Nikola Milojevic
**Defenders
***Milan Bisevac
*** Djordje Jokic
***Marko Basa
***Branko Lazarevic
***Marko Lomic
***Bojan Neziri
***Milan Stepanov
**Midfielders
***Milos Krasic
***Goran Lovre
***Igor Matic
***Dejan Milovanovic
***Branimir Petrovic
***Simon Vukcevic
**Forwards
***Andrija Delibasic
***Nikola Nikezic
***Srdan Radonjic

The team also had four alternate players, who are not counted as part of the official roster.

*Alternates
**Vladimir Disljenkovic (goalkeeper)
**Nikola Jozic (defender)
**Marko Perovic (midfielder)
**Dragan Stancic (midfielder)

* Group C
** Lost to Argentina (0 - 6)
** Lost to Australia (1 - 5) (Srdan Radonjic 72')
** Lost to Tunisia (2 - 3) (Milos Krasic 70', Simon Vukcevic 87')
*4th in group, did not advance (0 points, 3 GF, 14 GA, -11 GD, 16th overall)

=Judo=

The only Serbia and Montenegro judoka in Athens went 1-1 and lost in the round of 32.

Men's -66 kg (Half-Lightweight):
* Miloš Mijalković
**Round of 32: Defeated Murat Kalikulov of Uzbekistan (Obitori-gaeshi; waza-ari)
**Round of 16: Lost to Muratbek Kipshakbayev of Kazakhstan (Morote-gari; koku)

=Rowing=

The men's coxless pair team of Stojic and Stegic managed to make the final of the pairs, but finished six seconds out of a medal position.

Men's Pairs:
*Nikola Stojic and Mladen Stegic
**Heat: 6:58.11 (2nd in heat 1, advanced to semifinal A/B)
**Semifinal A/B: 6:27.50 (2nd in semifinal A/B, advanced to final A)
**Final A: 6:39.74 (5th overall)

Men's Lightweight Fours:
*Veljko Urosevic, Nenad Babovic, Goran Nedeljkovic and Milos Tomic
**Heat: 5:56.12 (4th in heat 1, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 5:54.27 (2nd in repechage, advanced to semifinal A/B
**Semifinal A/B: 6:00.07 (5th in semifinal A/B, advanced to final B)
**Final B: 6:19.00 (1st in final B, 7th overall)

=Shooting=

The Serbia and Montenegro team was only three members large, but boasted five Olympic medals, four from pistol shooter Jasna Sekaric. Sekaric came just one shot short of qualifying for the 25 metre event, but was more successful in the 10 metre Air Pistol event, in which she was 1988 Olympic champion and a silver medalist in Barcelona and Sydney. She trailed a Ukrainian opponent by 0.8 points going into the last two shots, but made up enough ground to force a tie and a shoot-off. However, she was second-best in that shoot-off, and ended up with her fourth Olympic silver medal.

Men's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:
*Stevan Pletikosic
**Qualification: 1153 points (Prone: 390 points, Standing: 382 points, Kneeling: 381 points) (28th overall, did not advance)

Men's 50 metre Rifle Prone:
*Stevan Pletikosic
**Qualification: 586 points (T-42nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 10 metre Air Rifle:
*Stevan Pletikosic
**Qualification: 586 points (T-39th overall, did not advance)

Men's 50 metre Pistol:
*Andrija Zlatic
**Qualification: 546 points (32nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 10 metre Air Pistol:
*Andrija Zlatic
**Qualification: 579 points (13th overall, did not advance)

Women's 25 metre Pistol:
*Jasna Sekaric
**Qualification: 579 points (9th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Pistol:
*Jasna Sekaric
**Qualification: 387 points (1st overall, "Qualified")
**Final: 96.3 points (Total: 483.3, Shootoff: 9.4) (Silver Medal)

=Swimming=

No Serbia and Montengro swimmers managed to advance to the final, and only two managed to make it to a semifinal, Milorad Cavic in the men's 100 metre fly, and Marina Kuc in the women's 200 metre breaststroke.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:
*Milorad Cavic
**Heat: 23.05 s (31st overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:
*Milorad Cavic
**Heat: 49.74 s (19th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:
*Igor Erhartic
**Heat: 1:54.21 (48th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Backstroke:
*Igor Beretic
**Heat: 59.38 s (40th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Breaststroke:
*Mladen Tepavcevic
**Heat: 1:03.52 (29th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Butterfly:
*Milorad Cavic
**Heat: 52.44 s (4th overall, "Qualified")
**Heat: 53.12 s (16th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Butterfly:
*Vladan Markovic
**Heat: 2:04.77 (31st overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Freestyle:
*Miroslava Najdanovski
**Heat: 27.18 s (43rd overall, did not advance)

Women's 100 metre Breaststroke:
*Marina Kuc
**Heat: 1:11.27 (22nd overall, did not advance)

Women's 200 metre Breaststroke:
*Marina Kuc
**Heat: 2:30.39 (13th overall, "Qualified")
**Semifinal: 2:31.77 (15th overall, did not advance)

=Table Tennis=

Serbia and Montenegro's table tennis team went 4-4, with the furthest progression being the 7th-seeded doubles' team making the quarterfinals, where they fell to the third seeds and eventual gold medalists from Hong Kong.

Men's Singles:
*Slobodon Grujic
**Round 1: Bye
**Round 2: Lost to Song Liu of Argentina (7 - 11, 11 - 7, 10 - 12, 5 - 11, 4 - 11)

*Aleksandar Karaksevic
**Round 1: Defeated Khalid Al-Harbi of Saudi Arabia (11 - 9, 11 - 3, 11 - 3, 11 - 5)
**Round 2: Defeated Johnny Huang of Argentina (7 - 11, 11 - 8, 11 - 5, 9 - 11, 11 - 9, 11 - 9)
**Round 3: Lost to (16) Jan-Ove Waldner of Sweden (11 - 13, 9 - 11, 11 - 5, 6 - 11, 12 - 10, 9 - 11)

Men's Doubles:
*(7) Slobodon Grujic and Aleksandar Karaksevic
**Round 1: Bye
**Round 2: Bye
**Round 3: Defeated Akira Kito and Toshio Tasaki of Japan (11 - 9, 9 - 11, 11 - 9, 12 - 10, 12 - 10)
**Quarterfinal: Lost to (3) Ko Lai Chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong (11 - 6, 10 - 12, 11 - 6, 13 - 11, 11 - 9)

Women's Singles:
*Silvija Erdelji
**Round 1: Defeated Nesrine Ben Kahia of Tunisia (11 - 3, 11 - 1, 11 - 3, 11 - 7)
**Round 2: Lost to Jing Jun Hong of Singapore (3 - 11, 8 - 11, 12 - 10, 4 - 11, 11 - 4, 6 - 11)

=Tennis=

World #41 Jelena Jankovic lost her opening round match in straight sets.

Women's Singles:
*Jelena Jankovic
**First Round: Lost to Fabiola Zuluaga of Colombia (4 - 6, 1 - 6)

=Volleyball=

Indoor

The Serbia and Montenegro team started badly, losing to Poland in straight sets, but rebounded to win their remainder of their pool matches, including a tight five-set match with the hosts that included a 73 point second set. However, in the quarterfinals they lost a tight match to the Russians in four sets. In the quarterfinal, they managed to win at least 25 points in each set, but lost three of them. The team's top scorer was Vladimir Grbic of the Dinamo club.

Men's Competition:

Team Roster
**Vladan Djordjević
**Andrija Gerić
**Nikola Grbić "Captain"
**Vladimir Grbić
**Ivan Ilić
**Milan Marković
**Đula Mešter
**Vasa Mijić "Libero"
**Ivan Miljković
**Aleksandar Mitrović
**Milan Vasić
**Goran Vujević

* Pool A
** Lost to Poland (21 - 25, 17 - 25, 16 - 25)
** Defeated France (25 - 21, 30 - 28, 25 - 22)
** Defeated Tunisia (25 - 16, 25 - 18, 25 - 21)
** Defeated Argentina (21 - 25, 25 - 17, 25 - 21, 25 - 23)
** Defeated Greece (21 - 25, 36 - 38, 25 - 13, 23 - 25, 15 - 12)
*1st in group, "Qualified" (9 points, 12 SW , 6 SL, 427 PW, 398 PL)
*Quarterfinal: Lost to Russia (27 - 29, 25 - 23, 25 - 27, 26 - 28)

=Water Polo=

Men's Competition:

Serbia and Montenegro's water polo team lost to the defending Olympic champions from Hungary in their opening game, blowing a 4-3 lead in the fourth quarter. They recovered by beating Russia, Kazakhstan, Croatia and the United States to close out the group in second place. Two late goals against Spain sent them into the semifinals, where they handily defeated the hosts to earn a rematch with Hungary in the gold medal game. The final was tied 5-5 at halftime, and Serbia and Montenegro edged into 7-5 lead heading into the final quarter. However, just as in the opening game, three unanswered goals in the final quarter resulted in Hungary taking the win and the gold medal. Aleksandar Sapic was the team's top scorer with 18 goals, while Vladimir Vujasinovic chipped in with 9 assists.

Team Roster
*Goalkeepers
**Nikola Kuljaca
**Denis Sefik
*Centre Backs
**Predrag Jokic
**Dejan Savic
**Vladimir Vujasinovic "Captain"
*Drivers
**Aleksandar Ciric
**Danilo Ikodinovic
**Vladimir Gojkovic
**Aleksandar Sapic
**Petar Trbojevic
**Vanja Udovicic
*Centre Forwards
**Viktor Jelenic
**Slobodan Nikic

* Pool A
** Lost to Hungary (4 - 6)
** Defeated Russia (4 - 3)
** Defeated Kazakhstan (9 - 5)
** Defeated Croatia (11 - 8)
** Defeated the United States (9 - 4)

*2nd in group, "Qualified" (8 points, 37 GF , 26 GA)
*Quarterfinal: Defeated Spain (7 - 5)
*Semifinal: Defeated Greece (7 - 3)
*Final: Lost to Hungary (7 - 8) (Silver Medal)

=Wrestling=

Greco-Roman

Serbia and Montenegro's only wrestler at the Games lost both his matches and finished last in his pool.

Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg:
* Davor Stefanek
**Pool 4
***Lost to Sidney Guzman of Peru (1 - 3)
***Lost to Makoto Sasamoto of Japan (1 - 3)

**3rd in pool, did not advance (2 TP, 2 CP, 18th overall)

Officials

*President: Dragan Kicanovic
*Secretary General: Predrag Manojlovic

References

* [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/Results/ Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad]

*cite book
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