Budapest, February, 3rd - 4th, 2007

      When we find somebody’s name in the papers that means he had done something unusual and when talking about Mihajlo Dudaš that’s his sport result. The importance of this result is also confirmed by the fact that he was the main topic of the reports from combined events in Budapest, but that’s not all. The cover of “Journal” newspapers for both days draws the public attention to texts entitled “Dudaš for the record” and “A bouquet of tulips for Mihajlo”, referring to Mihajlo’s success.

      This extensive media attention was brought to Mihajlo Dudaš because of his exceptional result in heptathlon. He won the first place at Junior Championship of Hungary in heptathlon with the result matching the new Serbian record of 5064 points, the result also being the best junior result in the world. This result may be a surprise for the public, but for our Club and his trainers, Goran Obradović and Feđa Kamasi it was not only expected but also announced before the competition.

      The attachment of this text contains the bulletin with the results of combined events PDF (86KB), as well as overall results PDF (139KB) obtained at the meeting held within that competition and issued at the Hungarian Athletic Federation Web site.

      Significant role on the meeting in Budapest held last weekend belongs to one other member of our Club. Ivana Španović won the first place in long jump with the result of 6.19 m, identical to the second place winner Vaszi Tunde from Hungary, whose career is marked by Olympic Games finals, as well as World and European Championships. Her best achievement is bronze medal at the World Indoor Championship. This is the second time Ivana defeated Vaszi Tunde this season.

      Miroslav Novaković (hurdles) candidate for European Championship in Birmingham that is to be held at the beginning of next month, won the first place in 60 m hurdles race, stopping the watch at 7.97 and showing his readiness to reach the threshold for that Championship.

      Boris Gluhak acquired a modest result in 200 m race. Igor Šarčević debuted in heptathlon, also with a modest result and with an ill performance in his primary discipline (pole vault) but insinuating that his determination for heptathlon may be concidered appropriate.

Budapest, Friday January 26th, 2007

       On Friday, January 26th, Ivana Španović made another success at the competition in Syma hall in Budapest, at EAA Permint meeting. She won the third place in long jump with the result of 6.20 m. This result is still not good enough for records but series of six jumps over 6 meters, with only one foul, is absolutely encouraging. The first place was won by our former contestant Marija Martinović, now married Šestak. Her new Slovenian record of 6.59 m is the third result of this winter season in Europe. Second place was won by Jana Veldakova (6.38 m) from Slovakia.

       Ten athletes from Serbia participated on this meeting. The most precious placement belongs to Miroslav Novaković, who won the second place in 60 m rally race with the result of 7.98.

       Attachment to this article contains extract from a bulletin with results of long jump for female athletes PDF(19 KB), as well as overall results PDF(108 KB) published on Hungarian Athletic federation Web site.

Budapest, Saturday January 20th, 2007

       At the first official competition in Syma hall in Budapest, Ivana Španvić beat nineteen competitors in long jump, obtaining the result of 6.28 m, which falls into planned result span for the beginning of winter season. Besides long jump, she also competed in 60 m sprint race, obtaining the expected result of 7.79 (second time in qualifications), while she missed the final race due to overlap with long jump competition. Attachment of this article contains the information about final meeting results (PDF 100KB), as well as from competing schedule of Ivana Španović.

       Besides Ivana, good results were obtained by two other juniors from our Club, Mihajlo Dudaš (4.00 m in pole vault and 6.31 in long jump) and Bojan Jovanović (23.97 in 200 m race).

Novi Sad, Friday January 19th, 2007

      AC “Vojvodina” makes extensive preparations for the 3rd Eurotop meeting of high jumpers. On Thursday, February 22nd at 8:00 P.M., 2007 in the great hall of SPC “Vojvodina”, citizens of Novi Sad will for the third time have a chance to watch athletes jumping the heights of to their living room ceilings. Nicola Ciotti, recorder of our meeting (2.31 m at the 2nd Eurotop 2006) confirmed his arrival, and will again be accompanied by his twin brother Giulio. Organizers of this competition, Stevan Zorić, Nebojša Vujkov and Dragutin Topić will make their best efforts to find him a worthy opponent. The potential winner of the 3rd Eurotop will also have to establish a new meeting record.

      Last year, besides seniors, all the other high jumpers got the opportunity to prove themselves on the tartan of Novi Sad Great hall, commonly known as SPENS. The same hall is famous for World Championship in Ping Pong in 1981. Young male and female high jumpers, 29 of them in total, made an excellent introduction to the main program on the evening on February 11th, 2006.

      This year, we wish to host more than a hundred jumpers at the 3rd Eurotop. According to the timetable of competitions, the morning terms are reserved for City Championship (categories form 7 to 14 years of age) involving students of Novi Sad Primary and Secondary Schools. Early afternoon terms are reserved for Individual Serbian Championship and competitors belonging to all age categories.

      Participation at City School Championship is allowed only for those contestants that are not registered in Clubs, if they qualify at previously organized qualifying competitions. Qualifications will be held every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:00 P.M. in the Hall 1 of Novi Sad Fair, and will last until February 15th, 2007. At Serbian Championship, active athletes of all ages will compete based on the applications sent by their Clubs.

Novi Sad, Friday January 19th, 2007

     Igor Šarčević nicely began the first indoor competition in this season, obtaining the result of 4.90 m in pole vault. This very encouraging result precedes his introduction at the indoor heptathlon that is to be held the first weekend of February. Several of our young athletes will participate at Hungarian Combined Events Championship, where Igor will have his first chance to prove himself, together with more than 50 athletes from Serbia competing in individual disciplines. More information about this event can be found at the Hungarian Athletic Federation Web site (www.masz.hu).

Novi Sad, Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Decision about the host of EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP FOR JUNIORS 2009 is less than two months away. EAA Council will decide the organizer of this important championship on March 5th, 2007. This stage is literally the “last lap” of the race for the championship and the finish is near. After visiting our town and Club, the same delegation is going to inspect the conditions offered by our opponent in the race for the championship, Finn town Turk. The final decision about the winner will be reached at the beginning of March, in Birmingham. UK.

We doubtlessly nourish certain hopes. EAA delegation Žorž Salsedo (EAA Council Member), Ivan Kodobah (Large Competitions Section Director) and his deputy Marsel Vakim, followed by representatives of Serbian Athletic Federation (Sport Manager Dragutin Topić, Secretary General Dragan Zarić, International Relations Secretary Ivica Matijević and Large Competitions Delegate form our country Ozren Karamata, side by side with hosts from our Club, Manager Stevan Zorić and Chairmen of the Managing Board Nebojša Vujkov) inspected the facilities in our town, attended the conference with our Mayor Maja Gojković, as well as with Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić.

After visiting facilities in Novi Sad and obtaining guaranties from Town and Province Government concerning competition organization, EAA delegation went to Belgrade, where their members were received by President of SAF Milan Spasojević, President of the Organizational Board Aleksandar Popović, Minister of Science and Preservation of Environment, as well as President of Serbian Olympic Committee Ivan Ćurković.

Hoping they left with a good impression, we expect some good news from Birmingham.