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DRAGAN RISTIĆ, GOLDEN CHAMPION I haven’t come to terms with having a disability
You won gold and reconfirmed your Olympic ranking for a third time. Is every gold medal equally important to you? “Every medal won at a ma- jor international competition is a success. The two most impor- tant medals for me are the first world gold that I won at the 2010 World Championships in Zagreb, because that was my first major competition, excluding world cups; while the second is my first Olym- pic gold, won in Tokyo in 2021. Those two medals have special sig- nificance for me.” You’ve succeeded where no-one else has by manag- ing to remain at the top of
He no longer even counts his medals. He’s won as many as three Paralympic golds, but his greatest acknowledgement is the fact that his nine-year-old son has started to train shooting, thanks to his father’s example
KRAGUJEVAC NATIVE DRA- GAN RISTIĆ IS THE WORLD’S ONLY Paralympian to have man- aged to win gold three times in shooting competitions at these planetary games. He won his latest gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympics
in the Mixed 50-metre rifle prone position. His personal haul includes more than 15 world-class medals as a Paralympian, while his love for this sport dates back to his child- hood, long before he sustained a life-changing injury in 1999.
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