Defense Pistol Association
IDPA SERBIA

Serbia has new European champions in the defensive shooting range

The Serbian Defensive Shooting Association - IDPA participated last weekend in the European Championship in Defensive Shooting Range (IDPA - International Defense Pistol Association), which took place at the BTK shooting range nearby on May 20, 2024. Appearing with 31 representatives, they won 22 awards, of which 6 gold medals (including the European Champion in the SSP division, the European Champion in the Seniors and the European Champion in the Law Enforcement division of Europe, the 5th champion in the ESP (Enhanced Service Pistol) division, as well as the European vice-champion in Lady category), 9 bronze medals and two awards for 4th and 5th place in the most numerous SSP (stock service pistol) division in the SS class.
In addition to individual plasmas, the teams of the Serbian Association for Defensive Archery also took third place in the SSP (Stock Service Pistol) division as well as in the CO (Carry Optic) division, while they only placed third in the ESP (Enhanced Service Pistol) division. .
Bearing in mind that defensive shooting is a relatively young shooting sport in Serbia, as well as that the Serbian Association for Defensive Shooting was founded last year, the result achieved the creation of European political significance, bearing in mind that this was the debut of our team at this prestigious competition which has been organized every other year in Europe for 25 years. This result provides an incentive for the further work of the Association as well as the further development of this sport in Serbia, bearing in mind that next year the World Championship will be organized in the USA, as well as that membership in Europe will be held in Serbia.
Taking into account the above, we hope that the Ministry of Sports as well as competent institutions in the Republic of Serbia will recognize the further development of this shooting sport as well as its importance to the significance of one of our most trophy sports, but also to the Republic of Serbia on the international level.
The Serbian Association for Defensive Archery - IDPA, personal responsibility for the support in achieving the above results at the European Championship is owed by the Association for the practical guidance of the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian IPSC to the support of the Association's gold sponsors - Triglav osiguranje a.d.o. . and Alta Bank.

Below are the names of the competitors who participated and left a plaque:

SO team from Serbia:
Darko Božić and Dušan Tomić

Competitors:
SSP European champion, SSP/EX first place, Senior - Ljubiša Momčilović
ESP European vice-champion, ESP/EX first place - Slavko Obradović
LADY - Snezana Momčilović
Lav Enforcement, CO/EX second place - Marko Đuković
SSP/SS fourth place - Victor Varga
SSP/SS fifth place - Miloš Miša Sretenović
CCP/MM second place - Milan Simić
CO/MM - second place - Aleksandar Lozanić
CO/EX third place - Marjan Džonić
ESP/SS - third place - Predrag Vučković
ESP/NV first place - Bane Filipović

Team performance:

SSP Team 1 - Third place
Ljubiša Momčilović
Dragan Cacic
Marko Kovacevic

CO Team 1 - Third place
Marko Đuković
Marjan Džonić
Aleksandar Lozanić