Goran Raičević
Goran Raičević 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.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.
On April 20, 1996, he ran the Belgrade Half Marathon in 1:02:39, although the course was short according to the Association of Road Racing Statisticians. He ran his last marathon on October 4, 1998 at the Podgorica Marathon, where he ran a personal best of 2:15:28, only 12 seconds behind first place Petko Stefanov.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 as well as in the surrounding areas from 1997. Raičević was killed in action on May 6, 1999, by KLA insurgents in Medveđa. He is buried in his birthplace, Strojinci. A statue and an annual memorial race are dedicated to Goran in Brus.
