Sreten Mirković Explained

Sreten Mirković
Nickname:	Srele
Weight:	Welterweight
Nationality:	Serbian
Birth Place:	Priština, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Birth Date:	15 February 1958
Death Place:	Požarevac, Serbia
Style:	Orthodox
Total:	498
Wins:	480
Losses:	18

Sreten Mirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Сретен Мирковић; 15 February 1958 – 28 September 2016) was a Serbian boxer. He had been referred to as a "legend of Serbian boxing."^[1]

Career

In 1979, as a member of the Mladi Radnik Sports Society from Požarevac, Mirković won the silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.^[2]

Coaching

Mirković was a coach in the Kostolac Boxing Club and was a coach of the Mladi Radnik Boxing Club in Požarevac.

Death

Mirković died on 28 September 2016 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He is interred in the Požarevac Old Cemetery.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Polufinale Beogradskog pobednika u Požarevcu . Dnevni list Danas . 2011-11-30 . 2009-04-02 . Serbian.
2. Web site: 1979 national champions statistics . Amateur-Boxing . 2011-11-30 .
3. Web site: Preminuo Sreten Mirković: Legenda zauvek napustila ring . . 2016-09-28 . 2016-09-28 . Serbian.