Jasna Šekarić (; born 17 December 1965) is a

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n sport shooter, considered as one of the most successful female shooters in ISSF history. She has won a total of five Olympic medals: one gold, three silvers and one bronze. She has also won three World Championship gold medals in the

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, in addition to five European Championship gold medals she won in the 10 m air pistol and 25 m pistol. In 1992, she lost the Olympic gold medal to

Marina Logvinenko Marina Viktorovna Logvinenko (russian: Марина Викторовна Логвиненко, née Dobrancheva, born 1 September 1961) is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the pistol events. Biography Logvinenko was born in Shakhty. She ...

despite having the same score. She is one of only six shooters (by 2012) to compete in at least seven Olympic Games.

Personal life

She was born in

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and grew up in

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, then part of Yugoslavia, where she began to practice shooting. In the school competitions, she first competed with a rifle and achieved a decent place at the regional championships. She later began to use a pistol. In 1990 she moved to Belgrade, where she had a successful year in sports at a private level. She is divorced and has two children, Lea (Леа) and Luka (Лука).

Career

She was named several times was the best sportswoman and shooter in the

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FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

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and

. In 1988 and 1994 she received a

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of the ''

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'' award for

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's best athlete.DSL Sport awards
In the 2008 games, she was the country's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. Jasna is listed in the golden book of sport shooting as the only shooter participating at five Olympic Games while being a finalist in all five. Despite having never changed nationality, Šekarić has competed under four flags at her six Olympics. She competed for

at the 1988 Olympics. In 1992, since Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions, she (and fifty other Serbians, Montenegrins, and Macedonians) competed as

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. Her next two Olympics were under the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the red star was removed from SFRY's flag). In 2004 she competed representing

, which had the same flag as FR Yugoslavia, and she finally competed for

in 2008. Another athlete to compete under four different flags is Serbian-American table tennis player

Ilija Lupulesku Ilija Lupulesku ( sr-cyr, Илија Лупулеску; born October 30, 1967) is a former Serbian and later American table tennis player who competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in ...

, but he changed nationality in the process.

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