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Tijana Bošković (Serbian Cyrillic: Тијана Бошковић; born 8 March 1997) is a Serbian volleyball player of the Serbia women's national volleyball team. Bošković is a left-handed and has won gold with the national team at the 2018 World Championship, the 2022 World Championship, the 2017 European Championship, and the 2019 European Championship. She is a two-time Olympic medalist. She won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Tijana Bošković
Bošković with Eczacıbaşı VitrA in 2016
Personal information
NicknameThe Boss
NationalitySerbian
Born (1997-03-08) 8 March 1997 (age 25)
Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
HometownBileća, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Spike325 cm (128 in)
Block317 cm (125 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite spiker
Current club Eczacıbaşı VitrA
Number18 (national team), 3 (club)
Career
YearsTeams
2010–2011 ŽOK Hercegovac
2011–2015 ŽOK Partizan Vizura
2015– Eczacıbaşı VitrA
National team
2014– Serbia
Honours
Volleyball
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2020 TokyoTeam
World Championship
2018 JapanTeam
2022 Netherlands/PolandTeam
European Championship
2017 Azerbaijan/Georgia
2019 Turkey
2021 Serbia/Croatia/Bulgaria/Romania
2015 Netherlands/Belgium
World Cup
2015 Japan
FIVB World Grand Prix
2017 Nanjing
Junior European Championship
2014 Tampere/Tartu
European Youth Olympic Festival
2013 Utrecht

Debut in 2014 for national team, she has been one of Serbia’s key players ever since. At the age of 21, she has played in gold medal matches in all major tournaments (Olympic Games, World Championship and European Championship) and she is one of the players who has contributed a lot of winning points for Serbia. Being selected as the 2019 CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year, Bošković has recorded an impressive achievement by receiving that award for the third consecutive year (2017, 2018, 2019).


Career



Junior Team


In junior level, Bošković won silver with her team and was awarded as the Most Valuable Player and Best Spiker at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival in Netherlands. She scored 29 points all alone for her team but that was not enough to win gold medal.[1]

In 2014, Bošković and her team became the Junior European Champion at the 2014 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship in Estonia and Finland. She was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.


Senior Team



2014: Debut with Serbia women's national team

At the age of 17, Bošković made her debut with the Serbia national team at the highest level, the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. Although she is the youngest in the team, she was the top scorer for Serbia in most matches and scored a total of 129 points in eight games and the team finished 7th in the tournament overall.[2]

As one of the most inexperienced players, Bošković entered the tournament after winning the 2014 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship in Estonia and Finland. Zoran Terzić, Serbia head coach said “She only practiced with the Serbia national team three or four days before the World Championship. Before that she was at the European Championship so there was no time.” He added, “It was my plan to play with her at this Championship” and “I want to give her a chance because she deserves it and I want to prepare her for the European Championship next season and also the Olympic Games in 2016.”[3]

Joined the team only shortly before the beginning of the tournament, Bošković said she did not expect to be called for playing in the tournament. She added “I did not imagine that I would play at the World Championship,” and “I'm very happy just for the fact that I'm here. It's for sure a wonderful experience for me and for my future.”[4]


2015-2016: First medal with national team, European Championship bronze medalist and Olympic Rio silver medalist

Bošković got her first medal with the senior national team in 2015, when she took a silver at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup held in Japan. The tournament was a qualification process for the Olympic Games. As a result, Serbia qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics for being the top two ranked in the tournament. Being the top scorer for Serbia, she scored 159 points overall with 48.70% successful spike.

Bošković made her first appearance in Women's European Volleyball Championship and won her first medal in major tournament, bronze at the 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Netherlands and Belgium.

A year later, Bošković and her team won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics. They won its first medal in Olympic Games history. Bošković along with Brankica Mihajlović had 20 and 22 points each, led the team to the final by beating the world number one team in the world and the undefeated team in the tournament, United States women's national volleyball team in five sets. 19 years old Bošković, a sensational talent and one of the main attackers for Serbia played an incredible tournament by being the top three best scorer in the tournament and top scorer for Serbia. She was also the top two server after her teammate, Milena Rašić.[5] Overall, Bošković had 10 aces and she records one of the fastest serve of the tournament with 100km/h mark against China.[6]


2017: Bronze in World Grand Prix and European Champion

After a successful year in 2016, Bošković continues doing her best for Serbia in 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix in Nanjing, China. The team won bronze medal against the host team, China and Bošković was selected as the Best Opposite in the tournament.

In 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Bošković led her team defeated Netherlands women's national volleyball team to capture Serbia's second European title. This is her first ever major title in senior national team and she was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Tijana Bošković scored a total of 130 points, averaged 7.22 points per set, more than any other player in the competition did.

“We are European champions, this feeling is incredible!  We played really well, like one, as a team from the beginning. We lost only two sets from the start of the European Championship. We worked five months for this and you can see the result,” Bošković said. Anne Buijs, player of the Netherlands said, “We were completely ready but had many problems stopping Bošković and Mihajlović and we have to accept that the opponent was better today.”[7]


2018-2019: World Champion, back to back European Champion and Olympic Games Qualification

In 2018, Bošković helped Serbia made history and claimed a historic title at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. Serbia won their first World title against Italy women's national volleyball team in five sets game. This is Bošković's second appearance in World Championship and she was elected the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. She once again being the top scorer for Serbia with 193 total points and was the best spiker with 53.66% efficiency.

Tijana Bošković’s attack on the sharp angle against high triple blocks from Italy with just a bump sets from libero and a spike speed of 102.7km/h, gets applauded from Davide Mazzanti, Italy women’s national volleyball team head coach was the highlight of the final match.

In 2019, Bošković and Serbia won their back to back European title at the 2019 Women's European Volleyball Championship. The team beat host Turkey women's national volleyball team and silenced the 10,000 home crowd in Ankara. Selected as the Best Opposite and Most Valuable Player of the tournament, Bošković is the second player after Russia's Tatiana Kosheleva to win the MVP award for the second time in a row.

During the Olympic Qualification Tournament 2019, Bošković scored 75 points in total of 3 match played, making her team qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics.


2021: Olympic Tokyo bronze and European Championship silver medal

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Bošković carried her team to win bronze medal. She became the first player to have scored three times 30 points or more in a single match in an Olympic tournament. She did it twice in three sets, against Japan with 34 points and Korea with 30 points, but also adding 32 points in a four-set defeat to Brazil. She was the top scorer of the tournament on 192 points in eight matches, averaging a staggering 24 points per match. Bošković was also the Tokyo 2020 most efficient attacker, striking 165 from a whopping 313 swings for a 52.72% efficiency[8] and top two server with 12 aces.[9] Also she was the most defensive[10] and made the most blocking[11] as an Opposite Hitter of the tournament.

A month after 2020 Summer Olympics, Bošković repeated the individual Best Opposite award of the tournament as her team claimed silver at the 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship. With this result, Serbia’s women volleyball national team is the only European team (men and women) to win medal in both Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and 2021 European Championship. During the semi-final match against Turkey, Bošković breaks the women's world record for spike speed of 110.3 km/h.[12]


2022: Back to back World Champion

At 2022 FIVB World Championship, Bošković being the captain for the first time in senior national team and led her team to retain the World title for the second year in a row. She was selected as the Most Valuable Player and Best Opposite of the tournament and she is the second player to win back to back World Championship MVP award after Cuba's Regla Torres. She is the first player in the history of European volleyball to receive two consecutive MVP award in the World Championship. Bošković was the Serbia top scorer and the third best scorer with 240 points scored. She was also the best attacker of the tournament, with 55.58% efficiency. In Serbia's first match against Canada women's national volleyball team, Bošković records the fastest serve in this edition with 106.8km/h speed.


Personal life


Tijana Bošković was born on March 8, 1997 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her father was a football player. She has two siblings – a brother Vuk and a sister Dajana.[13] Bošković can speak three languages: Serbian, Turkish and English.[14] Her older sister Dajana Bošković plays for the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two sisters played their first international match against each other in 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship.[15]


Player Profile


Some volleyball players and coaches has acknowledged Bošković's greatness in volleyball due to her incredible performances shown by her at such a young age.

“Tijana is a kind of a pearl in volleyball. She is very special, one in a million. When she joined the national team, she played at the same level as she does now and she was only 17. Born to play volleyball!” - Maja Ognjenović, one of the best setter from Serbia.

“Tijana is an excellent young player, hardworking, very dedicated with incredible talent and physical skills. When she arrived at Eczacibasi, I was so surprised with how mature and complete a player she was at such a young age” - Maja Poljak, one of the best middle blocker from Croatia.

“When you are a middle blocker you know how hard it is to play against lefties and Tijana is one of the best right now. She is still young, so we can all enjoy her great performances for a lot longer. Happy to have her on my side of the court”- Milena Rašić, one of the best middle blocker from Serbia.

“She’s a very young player and still a junior. She’s still not at a high level, but I’m sure she will become one of the best players in the world. I expect her to play for Serbia for a long time.” - Zoran Terzić, former coach of Serbia women's national team.

“I’m still trying to understand how she’s still only 17 years old. She’s far beyond her years and if she’s only 17 she’s got an incredibly bright future. She’s going to be a big and important player for Serbia for many years to come. “We hadn’t really seen her (before the World Championship). We didn’t see Serbia at Grand Prix because we were never in their group. She understands the game well, she can take these high swings and she’s a handful.” - Karch Kiraly, legendary USA player and now a coach of USA women's volleyball national team.

“... but for sure the most talented is Bošković. She is not only talented she is already a great player.”[16] - Giovanni Guidetti, Turkey women's volleyball national team's coach.


Awards



National Team



Junior Team


Senior Team


Club



Individual Awards (Awarded)



National Team


Club


Additional Individual Awards (Not Awarded)



National Team


Club


Individual achievements



References


  1. WoV (19 July 2013). "2013 European Youth Olympic Festival , Slovenia, Serbia, Tijana Boskovic MVP". WorldOfVolley. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  2. "Teenager Boskovic bossing the volleyball court for Serbia". boxscorenews.com. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  3. "Teenager Boskovic bossing the volleyball court for Serbia". boxscorenews.com. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  4. "Teenager Boskovic bossing the volleyball court for Serbia". boxscorenews.com. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  5. fivb. "Player ranking by skill" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Gunston, Jo (23 September 2022). "Volleyball: The most asked questions about women's indoor volleyball".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "CEV - Confédération Européenne de Volleyball". www-old.cev.eu. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  8. "How Tijana Boskovic and Karch Kiraly shaped Tokyo 2020". 12 August 2021.
  9. volleyballworld.com. "Volleyball Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". volleyballworld.com. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  10. volleyballworld.com. "Volleyball Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". volleyballworld.com. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  11. volleyballworld.com. "Volleyball Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". volleyballworld.com. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  12. "EUROVOLLEY 2021 W: Bošković sets new women's world record for spike speed! (VIDEO)". 3 September 2021.
  13. "Tijana Bošković za "Blic": Nije bilo šanse da igram za Tursku, sa Srbijom do snova!".
  14. "Kafeingo ile Quiz #4 - Tijana Boskovic & Sladjana Mirkovic".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. "Najemotivniji meč karijere: Tijana sa Srbijom na sestru Dajanu NOVA portal". 19 August 2021.
  16. WoV (29 January 2015). "EXCLUSIVE FOR WOV: Giovanni Guidetti - "Tijana Bošković is already a great player"". WorldOfVolley. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  17. {{|url=https://worldofvolley.com/latest_news/othercountries/15137/eyof-w-tijana-boskovic-mvp.html}}
  18. "TURKISH SUPER CUP W: Haak's huge display not rewarded, 3rd trophy in a row for Eczacıbaşı". 9 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  19. {{|url=https://worldofvolley.com/latest_news/othercountries/15137/eyof-w-tijana-boskovic-mvp.html}}
Awards
Preceded by Most Valuable Player of
FIVB Club World Championship
2016		 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Tatiana Kosheleva
 Most Valuable Player of
European Championship
2017
2019		 Succeeded by
Paola Egonu
Preceded by Most Valuable Player of
World Championship
2018
2022		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Lonneke Slöetjes
 Best Opposite of
Olympic Games
2020		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Olesia Rykhliuk
 Best Opposite of
FIVB Club World Championship
2016
2017
2018		 Succeeded by
Isabelle Haak
Preceded by
Lonneke Slöetjes
 Best Opposite of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2017		 Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
Lonneke Slöetjes
 Best Opposite of
European Championship
2019
2021		 Succeeded by
TBD
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На других языках

[de] Tijana Bošković

Tijana Bošković (serbisch-kyrillisch Тијана Бошковић; * 8. März 1997 in Trebinje, Bosnien-Herzegowina) ist eine serbische Volleyballspielerin.
- [en] Tijana Bošković

[it] Tijana Bošković

Tijana Bošković (Trebigne, 8 marzo 1997) è una pallavolista bosniaca naturalizzata serba, opposto dell'Eczacıbaşı.

[ru] Бошкович, Тияна

Тияна Бошкович (серб. Тијана Бошковић; 8 марта 1997, Требине, Босния и Герцеговина) — сербская волейболистка, диагональная нападающая. Двукратная чемпионка мира ( 2018, 2022), серебряный (2016) и бронзовый (2020) призёр Олимпийских игр, двукратная чемпионка Европы (2017, 2019).


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