Uroš Živanović

In July 2021, at the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in Rome, Italy, Živanović placed ninth in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 28.31 seconds, ninth in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:02.56, twelfth in the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, 57th in the 50-metre butterfly with a 26.92, and 72nd in the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 24.72 seconds.[5] At the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held the following July in Otopeni, Romania, he won the bronze medal with a time of 27.69 seconds after swimming a personal best time of 27.64 seconds in the semifinals.[6][7] In the 200-metre breaststroke, he swam a personal best time of 2:18.86 in the preliminary heats before placing fourteenth overall in the semifinals with a 2:19.25.[6] In his third event of the Championships, the 100-metre breaststroke, he placed fourth with a time of 1:01.85, finishing 0.53 seconds behind bronze medalist Steijn Louter of the Netherlands.[6][8]

Živanović qualified for the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, contested starting 11 August at Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, in the 100-metre breaststroke and also entered to compete in the 50-metre breaststroke, 50-metre freestyle, and 100-metre freestyle.[9] The first day of competition, he placed 33rd in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:03.00.[10][11] On the second day, he finished in a personal best time of 52.10 seconds in the 100-metre freestyle preliminary heats to place 67th overall.[12] Day four, he split a 50.59 for the anchor leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay to help place twelfth with a time of 3:18.15 in the preliminary heats.[13] In the 50-metre breaststroke preliminary heats on day five, he placed 32nd overall with a time of 28.47 seconds.[14][15] For his final event, he placed 66th in the 50-metre freestyle preliminary heats on day six with a personal best time of 23.98 seconds.[16]

2022 World Junior Championships
	50 m breaststroke	27.70
	100 m breaststroke	1:01.64

On day one of competition at the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru, Živanović ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:02.64 and advanced to the semifinals.[17] In the evening semifinals, he lowered his time to a 1:02.46 and qualified for the final ranking seconds.[18][19] For the final the following day, he achieved a personal best time of 1:01.64 and won the silver medal, finishing 0.34 seconds behind gold medalist Luka Mladenovic of Austria.[20][21][22] Three days later, he finished in a time of 28.30 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 50-metre breaststroke, advancing to the semifinals ranking first.[23] Lowering his time to a 28.08 in the semifinals later in the day, he ranked first and qualified for the final.[24] In the final the next day, he won the gold medal with a time of 27.70 seconds, which was over five-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Alex Sabattani of Italy and bronze medalist Luka Mladenovic.[22][25][26][27] Returning home to Leskovac following his performances, he received a welcome reception at his school, Gimnazija, which included the director of the school.[3][4]

At the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup conducted in short course metres (25-metre pool) in October in Berlin, Germany, Živanović placed seventeenth in the 200-metre breaststrkoe with a 2:14.38, nineteenth in the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:00.31, twenty-first in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 27.56 seconds (1.12 seconds behind preliminary heats first-ranked Nicolò Martinenghi of Italy), thirty-ninth in the 100-metre individual medley with a 57.28, and ninety-sixth in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 51.12 seconds.[28]

Legend: h – preliminary heat; sf – semifinal