Council of Europe

Serbia

Chief of State : Mr Boris Tadic
Head of Government : Mr Mirko Cvetkovic
Minister/ Secretary of State/ Chairman of agency responsible for sports : Ms Verica Kalanovic
Chairman of the National Olympic Committee : Mr Vlade Divac
Chairman of the National Sports Confederation : Mr Aleksandar Sostar (Sport Association of Serbia)

Land surface : 77 474 km²
Population : 8 millions
Capital : Belgrade
Language : serbian
Currency : serbian dinar
GDP per capita ($PPP) : 4.304 Euros

Budget of State (2009): 649.357.997,00 dinars
Budget of the ministry responsible for sports: 4.244.945.686,70 dinars, for Sport Department 1.199.436.382 dinars
Principal financing source for sport: budget of State
National sports federations : 99 financed by the State
Sports people member of a club : over 18000 national sport federations, clubs and organizations registrated by Ministry of Youth and Sport

National and international political priorities in the sports sector (2009)

- Draft law on sport
- Implementation of National Strategy for Sport Development for the period 2009-2013 ( Action Plan)
- Preventing violence in sport
- Sport for youth
- Top level sport
- Adaptation of sport facilities

Organisation of sport in the country (2009)
Ministry of Youth and Sport – National Olympic Committee – Sport Association of Serbia – National Sport Federations – Sport Clubs

Results of the last Olympic Games
Summer Games (Beijing, 2008)
Total of available medals: 3
Total of won medals: ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold: 0 ; Silver: 1 ; Bronze: 2
Winter Games (Turin, 2006)
Total of available medals :
Total of won medals: ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold: 0 ; Silver:0 ; Bronze:0

World champion in 2009 (including non olympic sport): in team competition on world championships in 2009, we had 3 gold medals (Water polo -seniors,Volleyball –cadets, Bowling-seniors); individual competition – 15 gold medals. In 2009 Serbia organized World Endurance Championship in Jet Ski, Championship in Savate for seniors and juniors.
European champion (in 2009): team competition -3 gold medals (Basketball-juniors, Shooting-seniors, Aviations-seniors); individual competition -34 gold medals. European Championships organizes in Serbia in 2009: Athletics- juniors, Table tennis –mixed doubles, Aviations –seniors, Bodybuilding – seniors, Picado – seniors

Links :
Ministry: http://www.mos.gov.rs/

National Olympic Committee: http://www.oks.org.rs/

Sports director :
Dragan Atanasov
Head of Department for Sport

EPAS contact:
Name: Dragan Atanasov
Title: Head of Department for Sport
Address: blvd. Mihajlo Pupin 2 , 11 070 Belgrade
Tel. : +381 (0) 11 311 75 57
Fax: +381 (0) 11 311 75 51
E-mail : dragan.atanasov@mos.gov.rs