Ten years of the Association for Recreation and Fitness Serbia

On the occasion of the celebration of 10 years of the Association for Recreation and Fitness Serbia, which was held on 15 September, 2016 in the Belgrade City Hall, besides other guests was the representative of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine.

On this occasion the Association awarded plaques to the associates and partners who over the years have provided generous support and contributed to the development of the Association and of the recreational sports and fitness in Serbia. And the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine has certainly always been a true partner and supporter of this Association.

Dr Vesna Repić Ćujić, Advisor to the Director of the Institute, received a plaque on behalf of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine and the Director of the Institute, mr Goran Bojović.

Sports medical checkup of children for school sport at the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine

Today, as in previous days, the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine continues with medical checkup of children. The objective of this activity is to improve health care and proper guidance of young children in sport.

The City of Belgrade and the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine have signed a protocol on cooperation which enables better health care for young people and supports the development of sports in Belgrade. The protocol was signed by the mayor of Belgrade, Mr. Sinisa Mali, and the director of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine, Mr. Goran Bojovic. This protocol defines regular sports medical checkup of schoolchildren in primary and secondary schools in Belgrade.

“The protocol gives the Institute the opportunity to perform sports medical checkups and motor ability and psychological testing of pre-school and school children in all the municipalities in Belgrade, in order to determine whether and what sport children are capable to practice, in order to avoid possible injuries. So far the Institute has concluded medical checkups of school-children in the municipality of Čukarica. Our goal is to start taking care of children's health as early as of pre-school age and to direct them to specific sports” said the director Bojovic.

A regular sports medical checkup of school-children includes anthropometric measurements, ECG and general medical examination. These checkups will be done on over 2.000 children. So far the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine did sports medical checkups at the municipalities of Mladenovac, Sopot, Umka, Zemun, Novi Beograd, Cukarica and Rakovica. The most important aspect of this activity is to establish the state of health of our children and to involve them in large numbers is sports activities and competitions .

Swimmers being tested

Stefan Šorak and Uroš Nikolić

After doing sports medical checkups, Stefan Šorak and Uroš Nikolić were tested on Isokinetic dynamometer in the laboratory of the Department for motor research and analytics in sport of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine. In-house experts of the Department tested the functions of their flexor and extensor muscles of the knee joint. The athletes were then tested on the QualiSys system - a system for recording body posture, which gives accurate and completely objective quantitative data for calculating joint angles, acceleration, torque, force, elasticity, deformation, body posture, balance and other important characteristics of the movement.

Tennis Academy Tipsarevic

On Saturday 09 September, 2016, at the former tennis courts "Ušće", and now the courts of the Tennis Academy Tipsarevic, the Academy Tipsatević  representatives held a promotional tennis event.

The event was supported by the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine. On this occasion Janko Tipsatević, the owner of the Academy and the famous tennis player, gave the representatives of the Institute a signed T-shirt, which makes the collection of the T-shirts signed by the successful Serbian athletes that the Institute possesses, complete.

This event was attended by all the coaches of Tipsarevic Tennis Academy, children who train at the academy and a large number of parents.

We should bear in mind that Janko is our best player from the youth category (first junior in 2001 after winning the junior Australian Open final) to senior 8th place on the ATP list. He made his debut in the Davis cup team of Yugoslavia in 2001, a breakthrough in the top 100 in the world in 2005, the top 50 in the world in 2007, and in the top 10 in the world in 2011. In the 2009/2010 season, with his teammates, he won the Davis Cup title.

This event, organized by the Academy, is just a prelude to the big event "Our mission - the joy of child's play", which will be held on 14 September, 2016 in front of Ušće shopping center from 17:00h to 19:00h.

Field testing of the women’s volleyball club “Vizura”

Motor ability field testing of the women's volleyball club Vizura by the professional staff of the Department for Motor Ability Research and Analysis of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine.

Professional staff of the Centre Department for Motor Ability Research and Analysis of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine performed the following tests: endurance test, shuttle run and measuring body composition - bioimpedance.