Olympic Committee presents BH team for EYOF in Hungary

At the Olympic Museum, the Olympic Committee of BiH held a press conference ahead of the departure of the BH team for the Summer EYOF Gyor in Hungary, reports the Patria agency.

The press conference was opened by the Vice President of the Olympic Committee of BiH, Siniša Kisić, who informed the attending media about the characteristics and details of the competition, and presented the BH team, wishing them good luck at the venues in Gyor. He wished success to our young basketball players, whose predecessors at the EYOF in Tbilisi 2015 won a gold medal.

The conference was attended by 28 athletes with their coaches. In their address to the media, the athletes expressed their readiness to give their last ounce of strength to achieve the best possible results at this competition.

The program of EYOF Gyor includes 10 sports: athletics, cycling, gymnastics, judo, canoe-kayak, swimming, tennis, basketball, handball, and volleyball.

The athletes of the BiH team will compete in 5 sports: basketball – cadet national team: Alija Islamović, Deni Radak, Đorđe Topolović, Haris Dedajić, Harun Huseinspahić, Karlo Zelenika, Kosta Kondić, Mihailo Nešković, Mirza Kusturica, Nikola Mičić, Ognjen Marković, Timur Krupalija, Bilal Kulelija coach, Dejan Bodiroga selector, Dijana Iliškovi physiotherapist, and Nermin Nikšić referee.

Cycling: Husein Selimović

Athletics: Aleksandra Roljić, Anja Čolaković, Tina Bošnjak, Arman Curo, and Goran Bošnjak coach.

Swimming: Hena Mešić, Marko Kovačić, Tina Tadić, Evelin Avdić coach

Judo: Anđela Samardžić, Selma Hajro, Vuk Elez, Jovo Samardžić coach

The first appearance will be made by the U16 basketball national team, whose match is scheduled for Monday, July 24 at 12:15 PM against the Finnish selection.

The BH team will be led by employees of the OC BiH, Samra Jurišić as head of mission and Lana Grgić, while within the EOC program “Young Ambassador,” the representative of BiH is Olympian from Rio 2016, Tatjana Đekanović.

As part of the Observer program, 7 representatives of EYOF 2019 Sarajevo & East Sarajevo will also stay in Gyor – within which they will monitor all segments of the organization and acquire new knowledge for organizing major sports competitions, all with the aim of improving the hosting of the 14th Winter EYOF, whose hosts in 2019 are Sarajevo and East Sarajevo.

The BiH team travels to Gyor on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in the morning hours from the premises of the Olympic Committee of BiH.

Opening ceremony – July 23, 2017 at the ETO Stadium starting at 8:30 PM

Closing ceremony – July 29, 2017 in the Fun Zone of Sports Village II