Davor Štefanek

Davor Štefanek
	Štefanek in 2015
Personal information
Born	12 September 1985 (age 39); Subotica, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	Serbia and Montenegro; (2004–2006); Serbia (2006–)
Sport	Wrestling
Event	Greco-Roman
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Mediterranean Games

Davor Štefanek (Serbian Cyrillic: Давор Штефанек; born 12 September 1985) is a Serbian representative in Greco-Roman Wrestling, he was the 2014 World champion and the 2016 Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman 66 kg category.

Biography

At the Mediterranean Games, he has won two silver medals at the 2005 and 2018 renditions as well as a gold medal in 2009. At the European Wrestling Championships, he has won three silver and two bronze medals. At the World Wrestling Championships, he won a gold medal in 2014, silver medal in 2018, and bronze medal in 2015.

Štefanek represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, as well as Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he won the gold medal in the 66kg event.^[1] Štefanek was the first Serbian athlete to win a medal in Rio de Janeiro after 11 days of disappointing results and was credited by other Serbian athletes for raising their spirits.^[2]^[3] The Serbian team then proceeded to win 7 more medals in the following days, making the 2016 Olympic Games edition by far the most successful in Serbia's history as an independent nation until that point.

He was awarded the golden Medal for Merits by the Republic of Serbia in 2019.^[4]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Davor Štefanek". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
^ "Спортски Журнал". Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
^ "Vaterpolisti: Samo pozitivno, kao Štefanek!".
^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Dodeljena odlikovanja povodom Dana državnosti Srbije". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2019-02-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)