Aleksa Šaponjić

Adam Scholefield and Aleksa Šaponjić
Personal information
Born	4 June 1992 (1992-06-04) (age 31) Belgrade, Serbia
Medal record Men's water polo Representing  Serbia Olympic Games 2012 London European Championship 2012 Eindhoven FINA World League 2013 Chelyabinsk Universiade 2011 Shenzhen Team

Aleksa Šaponjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шапоњић, born 4 June 1992) is a Serbian water polo player, and a member of the Serbia men's national water polo team. His first notable competition with his national team was the 2012 European Championship in Eindhoven, the outcome was a win. He currently attends the University of California, Berkeley and plays for the CA Golden Bears water polo team.

Club career

• 2011–____ CA Golden Bears

National career

2012 Eindhoven

On 21 January in the fourth match of the European Championship, Šaponjić scored his first goal ever for his national team in professional competition match. It was in a routine victory against Romania 14–5. On 27 January Šaponjić scored a goal in a semifinal 12–8 victory over Italy. On 29 January, Šaponjić won the European Championship with his national team beating in the final Montenegro by 9–8. This was his first medal with the national team.^[1]

Šaponjić was a member of the bronze medal winning Serbian team in water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[2]

See also

• Serbia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
• List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)

References

• Aleksa Šaponjić at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-12-17)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aleksa Šaponjić.

• Aleksa Šaponjić at Olympedia
• Aleksa Šaponjić at Olympics.com
• Aleksa Šaponjić at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)

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