Luka Stevanović

Career

Stevanović started his swimming career in 2004, in Swimming Club Belgrade, located on Tašmajdan swimming pool, under leadership of his coach Slavko Kurbanović, former Serbian Olympian who competed in 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In the first few years at the club he was competing in breaststroke. During his time at the club his best results were quite average, despite his big talent. The main reason for that was that he was swimming breaststroke, a stroke that was not his natural. He left the club at year 2007.

In April 2007 Stevanović made a move to swimming club Vračar, based in Belgrade's municipality Vračar. That proved to be a great move, since he started making progress really fast. His new coach, Nikola Mirčetić, has changed his strokes to freestyle and butterfly, which proved to be his natural strokes. He started winning medals in almost every race he was competing in. The best year of his career was 2009. During that year Stevanović became Serbian vice champion in 50m butterfly, and was also 3rd in 50m freestyle on Serbian National Junior Championships. Besides that, he has won many medals on many important swim meets both in Serbia, and abroad. He was always champion of Belgrade in his strokes. In 2011, due to problems with spinal disc herniation he was forced to retire from swimming.

Personal life

After retiring from swimming Stevanović started his career as a web developer. He lives and works in Belgrade. In 2016 he started competing in masters swimming events, and was competing in 2017 FINA World Masters Championships in Budapest. He was a member of Serbian relay team in 4x50m freestyle that finished in 7th position.