Nikola Jakšić

Nikola Jakšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Јакшић; born 17 January 1997) is a Serbian water polo player for VK Novi Beograd.^[1] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Serbia men's national water polo team in the men's event. He is 196 centimetres (6 ft 5 in) tall and is one of the top defenders in the world.

Nikola Jakšić
Personal information
Born	(1997-01-17) 17 January 1997 (age 27) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	105 kg (231 lb)
Position	Centre-back
Club information
Current team	VK Novi Beograd
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2013–2017	Partizan
2017–2021	Ferencvárosi
2021–present	VK Novi Beograd
Medal record Men's water polo Representing  Serbia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2020 Tokyo Team World Championship 2015 Kazan Team 2017 Budapest Team European Championships 2016 Belgrade 2018 Barcelona World League 2015 Bergamo 2019 Belgrade World Cup 2018 Berlin Mediterranean Games 2018 Tarragona Summer Universiade 2017 Taipei Team

Honours

Club

VK Partizan

• Serbian Championship: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Serbian Cup: 2015–16, 2016–17

Ferencváros

• LEN Champions League: 2018–19 ;runner-up: 2020–21
• LEN Euro Cup: 2017–18
• LEN Super Cup: 2018, 2019
• Hungarian Championship: 2017–18, 2018–19
• Hungarian Cup: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
• Hungarian Super Cup: 2018

VK Novi Beograd

• LEN Champions League runners-up: 2021–22, 2022–23
• Adriatic League: 2021–22
• Serbian Championship: 2021–22, 2022–23

Awards

• Member of the World Teamby totalwaterpolo: 2021,^[2] 2023
• Sportsman of the Year of the JSD Partizan: 2015, 2016
• Young Athlete of The Year by the Serbian Olympic Committee: 2016
• Serbian Championship Defender of the Year: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Hungarian Championship Defender of the Year: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21
• Adriatic League Defender of the Year: 2021–22

See also

• Serbia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
• List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
• List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
• List of world champions in men's water polo
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

References

1. Partizanov biser Nikola Jakšić
2. "Στην κορυφαία επτάδα του κόσμου οι Βλαχόπουλος και Αργυρόπουλος, σύμφωνα με το Total Water Polo". www.sport24.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-02-25.2021

External links

• Nikola Jakšić at World Aquatics 
• Nikola Jakšić at the Hungarian Water Polo Federation (in Hungarian) 
• Nikola Jakšić at Olympics.com 
• Nikola Jakšić at Olympedia 
• at the Olympic Committee of Serbia (archived) (in Serbian) 
• Nikola Jakšić at the Olympic Committee of Serbia (in Serbian) 
• Nikola Jakšić on Instagram