Veljko Uskoković

Veljko Uskoković (born March 29, 1971 in Cetinje, Montenegro) is a retired Montenegrin water polo player.[1] His club achievements are: European Champion 2000 (Becej team), 4 times Yugoslav Champion (Budvanska rivijera and Becej) 4 times Yugoslav Cup Winner (Budvanska rivijera and Becej). Member of Yugoslav national water polo team from 1991-2002. Team captain from 1996-2001. From Played more than 300 games, scored over 400 goals.

Veljko Uskoković
Medal record
Men's Water polo
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championship
1991 Athens
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney
World Championship
2001 Fukuoka
1998 Perth
2003 Barcelona
European Championship
2001 Budapest
1997 Seville
Mediterranean Games
1997 Bari
Universiade
1995 Fukuoka
Representing  Montenegro
European Championship
2008 Málaga

Won with national teams: gold medal at the European Championship in Athens 1991, Budapest 2001 and Malaga 2008, silver medal at the European Championship in Seville 1997, bronze at the Olympic games in Sydney 2000, played at Olympic games Atlanta 1996 and Beijing 2008, bronze at the World Championship in Perth 1998, silver at the World Championship in Fukuoka 2001, gold medal at the Universiade in Fukuoka 1995, gold medal at the Mediterranean games in Bari 1997. Played for the World's Best Water Polo Team 2000 and 2001. This success, in combination with geo-political changes, makes him the only water polo player in the world who won gold medals with four different national water polo teams: representing SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and finally Montenegro.

He was given the honour to carry the national flag of Montenegro at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, becoming the 17th water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.[2]

From 2008 he is waterpolo coach in ''Primorac'' and ''Cattaro'' club in Kotor, Montenegro. He is waterpolo coach in junior national team, too. Best result as a coach silver medal in Junior World Championship 2016.

He was named best Montenegrin athlete in 1991 in Montenegro and best athlete in 2016.

Clubs honours
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See also

References
  1. "Veljko USKOKOVIC - Olympic Water Polo :Yugoslavia". International Olympic Committee. International Olympic Committee. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  2. Montenegro. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 25 October 2011.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
None		 Flagbearer for  Montenegro
Beijing 2008		 Succeeded by
Srđan Mrvaljević
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