JUSUFOVIC Ermin

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Men	2012	London, GBR
1	Men	2004	Athens, GRE
2	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN
World Championships
1	Men	2014	Elblag, POL
2	Men	2018	Netherlands
European Championships
2	Men	2019	Budapest, HUN
3	Men	2017	Porec, CRO

Sport Management - University of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Wife Merima, son Namik, daughter Naida

Bosnian, English

SKISO Sinovi Bosne [Lukavac, BIH]

Mirza Hrustemovic [national], BIH

He took up the sport in 1998 with the SKISO Sinovi Bosne club in Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (rferl.org, 21 Nov 2012)

He decided to try the sport after talking to a sitting volleyball coach at a rehabilitation centre where he was staying following his accident. He attended his first training session after returning to Lukavac. "My first impressions of the sport were great." (balkans.aljazeera.net, 04 Aug 2020; dnevniavaz.ba, 15 Apr 2012)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (FTV YouTube channel, 04 Apr 2019)

Bosnian sitting volleyball player Safet Alibasi, and his family. (ba.n1info.com, 23 Jul 2019; rferl.org, 21 Nov 2012)

"Limits exist only in your head." (azramag.ba, 09 Feb 2016)

In 2020 he received a Recognition Award from the World ParaVolley Federation. The honour acknowledges the recipient's significant contribution towards and development of sitting volleyball. (Instagram profile, 24 Apr 2020; worldparavolley.org, 24 Apr 2020)

He was named the 2019 Athlete of the Year in Paralympic Sports by the Sports Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (rtvslon.ba, 25 Jan 2020)

He was named the 2016 Athlete of the Year and the 2014 Male Para Athlete of the Year by the Sports Association of the Tuzla Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (lukavacki.ba, 02 Feb 2017; avaz.ba, 08 Feb 2015)