Slobodan Branković (athletics)
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's athletics | ||
Representing  Yugoslavia
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| European Indoor Championships | ||
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1992 Genoa | 400 m |
| Mediterranean Games | ||
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1991 Athens | 4x400 m |
Slobodan Branković (Serbian: Слободан Бранковић; born 1 October 1967) is a Serbian former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres. He is currently the general secretary of the Athletics Federation of Serbia.
He competed internationally for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He represented the former nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but (like a handful of other Yugoslavian athletes) competed as an individual under no flag at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Branković was the gold medallist over 400 metres at the 1992 European Athletics Indoor Championships, a feat which gained him the "Golden Badge" as the Спорт newspaper's Yugoslav sportsperson of the year. He participated in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics on three occasions (1987, 1991, 1993). He set Yugoslavian records in the 4×400 metres relay and remains the holder of a variety of indoor and outdoor Serbian national records in distances from 100 metres to 400 m.
Born in Obrenovac in Belgrade and affiliated with the city's athletic club, AK Partizan, he made his first appearance on the world stage representing the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Forming part of the 4×400 metres relay team at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, he ran a national Yugoslavian record time of 3:03.30 minutes with Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović and Ismail Mačev. At the age of twenty, he ran in the 400 metres heats at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and improved the national relay record to 3:01.59 minutes in the semi-finals of the relay event.
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