| Stevan Pletikosić | |
| Birth Place: | Kragujevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Country: | (1989–1991) (1992–1994) (1995–2006) (2006–) |
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Stevan Pletikosić (Serbian: Стеван Плетикосић; born 14 March 1972 in Kragujevac, Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] The year before, at the 1991 ISSF World Cup in the same event, he had become the only junior ever to achieve the maximum score of 600 in a world-class competition.
Pletikosić started competing in 1982, when he was 10 years old. He won a first medal at the European Championships winning a silver at the 1989 European Shooting Championships in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia. During his career, he won another European silver medal and was European champion twice. His first international medal was won at the 1994 ISSF World Shooting Championships, which was also a silver medal. Yugoslav Olympic Committee proclaimed him sportsman of the year in 1994.[2] Pletikosić also won a silver in the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, now in the Three positions event, and he won the 2008 ISSF World Cup competition in the Prone event in Rio de Janeiro.
| Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | ||
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| align=left | 50 metre rifle three positions | — | 35th 1156 | 29th 1156 | 28th 1153 | 11th 1168 | — | 25th 1168 | |
| align=left | 50 metre rifle prone | Bronze 701.1 (597) | 11th 595 | 30th 591 | 42nd 586 | 10th 594 | — | 21st 621.6 | |
| align=left | 10 metre air rifle | — | — | 38th 583 | 39th 586 | 7th 697.7 (595) | — | — |
| Current world records held in 50 metre rifle prone | ||||||||
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