About Marko Tomićević
Born 1990. Marko Tomićević is a Serbian kayaker.
Marko Tomićević (, born 19 April 1990) is a Serbian sprint canoer. A two-time Olympian, Tomićević won an Olympic silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event in 2016. A year later he won gold at the World Championships in the same event. He is also the world record holder in the K-2 1000 m event, set at the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships. For all three successes he shared a boat with teammate Milenko Zorić.
Career Tomićević took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's K-1 1000 metres, finishing 10th overall.
At the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Tomićević partnered with compatriot Vladimir Torubarov in the K–2 1000 metres event, winning bronze medals, the first of the championships for Serbia.
He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan with Milenko Zorić.
In June 2016, he and Zorić finished third behind the boats of Germany and Hungary at the 2016 Canoe Sprint European Championships, held in Moscow. Their bronze medals were later upgraded to silver after Hungarian canoeists Tibor Hufnágel and Bence Dombvári were disqualified and stripped of their awards, following Dombvári testing positive for a doping offence.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tomićević and Zorić won silver medals in the men's K-2 1000 metres event, finishing second to German pair Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross by less than 0.2 seconds. He also competed in the K-4 1000 metres in Rio as part of the Serbia team, which finished 8th. In December of that year the pair were named as joint winners of the Sportsman of the Year award in Serbia.
Tomićević and Zorić set a new world record in the final of the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships in the K-2 1000 metres event on 9 June 2018, held in Belgrade, as they won the European gold medal for the first time. They were congratulated on Twitter by President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić for their success.
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Who is Marko Tomićević?
Canoeist
When was Marko Tomićević born?
Marko Tomićević was born on 19 April 1990 in Bečej.
What is Marko Tomićević's occupation?
Marko Tomićević is a kayaker.
What nationality is Marko Tomićević?
Marko Tomićević is Serbian.
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