Serbian table tennis player

Aleksandar Karakašević (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Каракашевић; born December 9, 1975) is a Serbian table tennis player. His powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal at the 2011 European Championship. One of his greatest results achieved in USA is his victory at the US Open Championship, July 2007, where he established himself as a world cl* athlete, winning the tournament *le for the 3rd time by defeating Kurashima Yosuke from *an with the result of 4:0.In 2020 at the age of 45 he is still playing in German Bundesliga (first German division) representing TTC ZUGBRÜCKE GRENZAU.

Karakašević competed at the 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics.

On 20 November 2021 it was announced that Karakašević had joined the Serbian Progressive Party.

His father, Milivoj Karakašević was a Yugoslav table tennis player.

Contents

• 1 Career Highlights and Accomplishments
  • 1.1 Clubs
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Career Highlights and Accomplishments

• Bronze medal at European Championship – Singles
• European Champion – Mixed Doubles (four times)
• US Open Champion – Singles (three times)
• US Open Champion – Doubles
• Second place in Europe – Mixed Doubles
• Third place in Pro-Tour final – Men's Doubles- (twice)
• German Open Champion – Men's Doubles
• Brazilian Open Champion – Doubles
• Brazilian Open Champion – Teams
• Mediterranean games Champion – Men's Doubles
• Second place in Mediterranean games – Doubles (twice)
• Second place – Netherlands Open – Men's Doubles
• Third place – Qatar Open – Men's Doubles (twice)
• Balkan Champion (six times)
• Second finisher in European Trials for the Olympic games
• Third place in Junior Europeans (four times)
• Yugoslavian Champion – Singles (three times)
• Yugoslavian Champion – Men's Doubles (five times)
• Yugoslavian Champion – Mixed Doubles (five times)
• Yugoslavian Champion – Teams (four times)

Clubs

• TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
• STK Partizan
• STK Unirea Uzdin
• SV Plüderhausen
• STK Crvena Zvezda
• UCAM Cartagena TM

References

External links

• Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at the International Table Tennis Federation
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  • "Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at ittfranking.com". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2018-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Aleksandar Karakasevic at the International Olympic Committee
• Aleksandar Karakasevic at Olympics.com
• Aleksandar Karakašević at Olympedia
• Aleksandar Karakašević at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)