Dušan Mandić

Dušan Mandić (; born 16 June 1994) is a Serbian water polo player who plays for Ferencváros.

He was a part of the Montenegrin junior water polo team before opting to play for Serbia. With Serbian junior national team he won a gold medal at the 2011 Junior Water Polo World Championship. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Serbia men's national water polo team in the men's event, winning bronze.

He has won one bronze and three gold medals for Serbia at the Olympics, the most recent one coming in Paris in 2024. He was also named MVP of the tournament in Paris as well. Mandić is widely considered as one of the best water polo players worldwide.

Honours Club Primorac Kotor LEN Champions League runners-up: 2009–10 Montenegrin Cup: 2009–10 Partizan Serbian Championship: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15 Serbian Cup: 2010–11, 2011–12 Eurointer League: 2011 LEN Champions League: 2010–11 LEN Super Cup: 2012 Pro Recco LEN Champions League: 2020–21; runners-up: 2017–18 Serie A: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 Coppa Italia: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21 Novi Beograd LEN Champions League runners-up: 2021–22, 2022–23 Adriatic League: 2021–22 Serbian Championship: 2021–22, 2022–23 Ferencváros LEN Champions League: 2023–24, 2024–25 Hungarian Championship: 2023–24 Hungarian Cup: 2023–24

Individual World Aquatics Best Male Water Polo Player: 2020, 2024 Swimming World Magazine World Player of the Year " award: 2020 Total-waterpolo magazine's man water polo "World Player of the Year" award: 2021, 2024 Member of the World Team by total-waterpolo: 2018, 2021, 2024 Summer Olympics MVP: 2024 Summer Olympics Top Scorer: 2024 Summer Olympics Best Right Drive of the Tournament: 2024 LEN Champions League MVP: 2020–21, 2023–24 LEN Champions League Final Four MVP: 2024 LEN Champions League Final Eight MVP: 2021 LEN Champions League Right Driver of the Year: 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22 LEN Champions League Right Winger of the Year: 2023–24, 2024–25 World Championship Team of the Tournament: 2019, 2025 World League MVP: 2015 Bergamo Serie A MVP (2): 2016–17, 2020–21 Serie A Right Driver of the Year (5): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21 Serbian Championship MVP (2): 2014–15, 2021–22 Serbian Championship Top Scorer: 2014–15 Serbian Championship Right Wing of the Year (7): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2021–22, 2022–23 Serbian Championship Young Player of the Year (4): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 "Young Athlete of the Year" by Olympic Committee of Serbia: 2012 Serbian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2017 2026 Men's European Championship All Star team. 2026 Men's European Championship finals MVP.