Brankica Mihajlović

Brankica Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранкица Михајловић; born 13 April 1991) is a Serbian professional volleyball player. She plays for the Serbia women's national volleyball team where she won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship.^[1] In 2019, she returned to the Turkish club Fenerbahçe after a 3 year break.^[2] She is 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) tall.^[3]

Brankica Mihajlović
Mihajlović playing for RC Cannes in March 2013
Personal information
Nationality	Serbia
Born	(1991-04-13) 13 April 1991 (age 33) Brčko, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Spike	302 cm (119 in)
Block	290 cm (114 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside spiker
Current club	Volero Le Cannet
Number	9
Career
Years Teams 2006–2009 2009–2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013–2014 2014 2014–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2019 2019–2021 2021–2022 2022–2023 2023–2024 2024– VC Jedinstvo Brčko Voléro Zürich Hyundai Hillstate RC Cannes Rio de Janeiro Vôlei Clube Voléro Zürich Hisamitsu Springs Fenerbahçe Grundig Tianjin Bridgestone JT Marvelous Fenerbahçe Pallavolo Monza Leningradka Saint Petersburg Liaoning Tengda Volero Le Cannet
National team
0000  Serbia
Honours Women's volleyball Representing  Serbia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2020 Tokyo Team FIVB World Championship 2018 Japan Team 2022 Netherlands/Poland Team FIVB Nations League 2022 Ankara Team European Championship 2017 Azerbaijan/Georgia 2019 Turkey 2015 Netherlands/Belgium World Cup 2015 Japan FIVB World Grand Prix 2013 Sapporo 2017 Nanjing European Games 2015 Baku Team European League 2012 Karlovy Vary

Career

Mihajlović won the silver medal at the 2013 Club World Championship playing with Unilever Vôlei.^[4]

On 28 November 2014 Hisamitsu Springs announced she was joining the team.^[5] With this club, she played the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship.^[6]

Awards

Individual

• 2013 World Grand Prix "Best outside spiker"
• 2015 World Cup "Best outside spiker"
• 2016 Olympic Games "Best outside spiker"
• 2017 Yeltsin Cup "Most valuable player"
• 2017 European Championship "Best outside spiker"
• 2017-2018 Japanese V.League "Excellent Player"
• 2018-2019 Japanese V.League "Best outside hitter"
• 2019 European Championship "Best outside spiker"

Clubs

• 2013 Club World Championship - Runner-up, with Unilever Vôlei
• 2013/14 Brazilian Volleyball Superliga - winner, with Unilever Vôlei
• 2014/15 Turkish Super Cup - winner, with Fenerbahçe Grundig
• 2016/17 Chinese Volleyball League - The third
• 2017/2018 Japanese National Championship - Runner-up, with JT Marvelous

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  Brankica Mihajlović at jump serve
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  Brankica Mihajlović with Ana Antonijević and Tijana Malešević

References

1. "CEV - Confédération Européenne de Volleyball". www.cev.lu. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
2. "TUR W: Brankica Mihajlovic – "I couldn't reject Fenerbahce, especially coach Terzic"". 17 April 2019.
3. "Women's Volleyball". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
4. "Vakifbank Istanbul fly to first Women's Club World Champs title, China claim bronze". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
5. Hisamitsu Springs. "ブランキツァ・ミハイロビッチ選手入部のお知らせ" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
6. "The New Transfer of Fenerbahce Grundig Brankica Mihajlović !".

External links

• Brankica Mihajlović at the European Volleyball Confederation
• Brankica Mihajlović at WorldofVolley
• Brankica Mihajlović at Ligue Nationale de Volley (in French)
• Brankica Mihajlović at Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian)
• Brankica Mihajlović at V.League (women) (in Japanese)
• Brankica Mihajlović at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (former profile) (in Serbian)