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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.

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, 2023–24
• Serbian Championship: 2021–22, 2022–23
• Serbian Cup: 2023–24

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
• LEN Champions League Defender of the Year: 2020–21

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

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
• Nikola Jakšić at the Olympic Committee of Serbia (archived) (in Serbian)
• Nikola Jakšić on Instagram