Nationality Serbian Event(s) 5000 meters, Marathon | Club AK Partizan Name Goran Raicevic | |
Born June 26, 1963 ( 1963-06-26 ) Krusevac, Yugoslavia Died May 6, 1999(1999-05-06) (aged 35)
Medveda, Yugoslavia Sport Track, Long-distance running Personal best(s) 5000 meters: 13:49.60
Marathon: 2:15:28 | ||
Da se ne zaboravi - Goran Raičević
Goran Raičević (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Раичевић, June 26, 1963 – May 6, 1999) was a Serbian long-distance runner. He won three Balkan Cross Country Championships for Yugoslavia in 1990, 1992, and 1994. His son Nikola Raičević took up athletics and trains with AK Partizan.
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Running career
Raičević won his first Balkan Cross Country Championships in 1990. In the same year he ran the senior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing in 119th place out of 236 finishers. Raičević would also represent FR Yugoslavia at IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1994 and 1996, recording strong finishing places and results in both years.
Military service and death
Throughout the 1990s, in addition to conscription to the Yugoslav Army being mandatory for all able male citizens, unrest and eventually war took place in Kosovo and Metohija as well as in the surrounding areas from 1997. Raičević was killed in action on May 6, 1999, by KLA terrorists in Medveđa. He is buried in his birthplace, Strojinci. A statue and an annual memorial race are dedicated to Goran in Brus.