Personal information | |
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Birth name | Zeljko Dimitrijevic |
Nationality | Serbian |
Born |
Ribare kod Zagubice - Petrovac na Mlavi |
4 January 1971
Residence | Zemun |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Club throw |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 29.96 WR |
Željko Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Димитријевић), (born January 4, 1971 in Petrovac na Mlavi) is a Paralympian athlete from Serbia. He competes in seated throws in the F51 classification, a class for quadriplegics.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics held in London he won a gold medal in athletics, broke a world record and became first Paralympic gold medalist for independent Serbia.