Milenko Zorić

Milenko Zorić (, born 2 April 1989) is a Serbian sprint canoer. A two-time Olympian, Zorić 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 Marko Tomićević.

Biography Zorić took up canoeing in 1999. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2012 Canoe Sprint European Championships in Zagreb.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he competed in the K-4 1000 metres event, finishing 9th as part of the Serbia team.

He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan with Marko Tomićević.

In June 2016, he and Tomićević 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, Zorić and Tomićević 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.

Zorić and Tomićević 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.