Judo In Montenegro
Judo In Montenegro/Božidar Markuš
Judo In Montenegro/Božidar Markuš
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Milorad Vujović on judo sport, his current workplace and of course,<br />
personal accomplishments of this young and talented athlete, who has<br />
been doing judo for less than four years.<br />
Even though judo is a fairly young sport and has no tradition in<br />
<strong>Montenegro</strong>, Vujović has managed to earn himself a place among the<br />
best judokas in the country. This fact is proved by his greatest success,<br />
achieved at the international competition “Adriatic Cup”, held in Split.<br />
Among 70 athletes who had come from all over Europe, he reached the<br />
finals, thus placing himself among 10 most successful competitors. If<br />
we complete Vujović’s sport ID with the fact that he has reached the<br />
semifinals of the state championships twice, and obtained the master<br />
candidate title (Vujović is the only master candidate in <strong>Montenegro</strong>)<br />
and the brown belt, this success comes by no means by chance or as a<br />
great surprise.<br />
- How did you start doing judo?<br />
- One afternoon I had some free time and didn’t know what to do<br />
and so I somehow found myself in the gym where judokas were practicing.<br />
At the same time, deep down in me, a desire was born to master this<br />
martial art, full of spirit and dynamics, to reinvent myself into another<br />
Milorad, unfamiliar to me and the sport public…<br />
- What win do you find dearest and what is your most memorable<br />
success?<br />
- The “Adriatic Cup” competition has come as a huge success after<br />
a standstill brought about by objective reasons (Vujović has been<br />
coaching the judo club in Titograd). And every victory is dear to me and<br />
I can’t choose the dearest one.<br />
- What was your heaviest defeat and when were you angry with<br />
yourself?<br />
- The last defeat is always the heaviest. Still, I’d say it would be<br />
the defeat by Brančić from Novi Sad. It was my debacle at the last<br />
year’s belts competition. For this defeat I myself was to blame, because<br />
my confidence of certain win made me lose easily from a weaker<br />
competitor.<br />
- You are the coach of the <strong>Judo</strong> Club “Titograd”. Tell us something<br />
about the conditions for popularising judo in <strong>Montenegro</strong>.<br />
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