Sara Klisura (Serbian Cyrillic: Сара Клисура; born 15 July 1992) is a Serbian professional volleyball player. She was a member of the women's national volleyball team of Serbia from 2008 to 2013.[1] She was part of the national squad that won the silver medals at the 2009 World Championship and 2009 & 2010 European Championships.[2][3] Her current club is 1. MCM-Diamant KE.[4]

Sara Klisura
Personal information
NationalitySerbian
Born (1992-07-15) July 15, 1992 (age 32)
Subotica, FR Yugoslavia
HometownNovi Sad, Serbia
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Spike310 cm (122 in)
Block300 cm (118 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current club1. MCM-Diamant KE
Number1
Career
YearsTeams
2006–2010
2010–2012
2012–2014
2014–2015
2015–2016
2017
2017
2018
2018–2019
2019–2020
Spartak Subotica
Vizura Beograd
Foppapedretti Bergamo
CSM Târgoviște
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
CSM Târgoviște
Foton Tornadoes
Cocolife Asset Managers
CSM Târgoviște
1. MCM-Diamant KE
National team
2008–2009
2009–2011
2011–2013
Serbia Serbia U-18
Serbia Serbia U-20
Serbia Serbia
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Serbia
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2009 Thailand Team
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 2009 Netherlands Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Serbia Team

Career

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Pre-2010: Junior years

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Klisura's volleyball career debuted in 2006 with Spartak Subotica, a club that plays in the Volleyball League of Serbia. She played with Spartak for four seasons. In 2009, she joined the Serbia women's national under-18 volleyball team where she played as a wing-spiker.[5] The national team won the silver medal for both the European and the World Championships. Her main accomplishments as a junior player also came in that year where she won the Best server award for both championships.[6][7][8]

She was one of the awardees of the Volleyball Federation of Serbia in 2010, where she was awarded as the Best receiver.[9] She also received the IOC trophy on behalf of her team when the Olympic Committee of Serbia chose the men's and women's volleyball teams as the Best Serbian National Teams of 2010.[10]

She was part of 39 national selections in total.[11]

2010–2011: Vizura Beograd

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Klisura started to play in the professional ranks when she was 18 years old.[12] She transferred to Vizura Beograd in 2010 and played with the club for two seasons. During her years with Vizura, the club won the silver medal for both the Super League and the Serbian Cup.[13][14]

2012–Early 2017: Playing in Europe

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Klisura began to play abroad in 2012. She joined the Italian volleyball club Foppapedretti Bergamo that plays in the Serie A, the highest professional women's volleyball league in Italy. She remained as a member for two years. In the 2012-2013 season, the club finished at third place in the Italian league.[15]

In 2014, she joined the Romanian volleyball club CSM Târgoviște that plays in the country's top professional volleyball league, Divizia A1.[16] The club finished at 4th place in the 2014-2015 season.[17]

In 2015, she joined the Russian volleyball club Yenisey Krasnoyarsk that plays in the Super League, the highest professional women's volleyball league in Russia. The club finished at 7th place in the 2015-2016 season.[18] She left the club after a year and went back to Romania.[19][20]

In 2017, she joined the CSM Târgoviște for the 2nd part of the Divizia A1's 2016-2017 season.[21][22] The club finished at 3rd place in the championship.[23]

Late 2017–Early 2018: Playing in Asia

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In August 2017, Klisura was scouted by her former coach, Moro Branislav, to play in the 2017 PSL Grand Prix Conference in the Philippines. She joined the Foton Tornadoes volleyball club that plays in the Philippine Super Liga, a semi-professional corporate club volleyball league that is recognized by the FIVB and the AVC.[24] The club finished at 3rd place after the championship.[25] Klisura won the Best scorer in a Match award for dropping 41 points in one of the games. This score is her personal record for points.[26][27] This also paved way to the creation of her moniker, "Kill-sura".[28]

In the 2018 season of the PSL Grand Prix, she transferred to Cocolife Asset Managers where she played as the team captain.[29][30] The club finished at 4th place after the championship and she won the 1st Best Outside Spiker award .[31][32]

Late 2018–2019: Back in Europe

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Klisura joined CSM Târgoviște for the third time and played at the 2018–19 season of Divizia A1 in Romania and won the bronze medal. [33][34] The club also participated at the 2019 CEV Cup.[35]

In late 2019, she joined 1. MCM-Diamant KE, a Hungarian volleyball club that plays in the Hungarian Cup and Extraliga.[36]

Clubs

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Awards

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Individuals

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Junior

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Senior

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National Team

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Clubs

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References

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  1. ^ "2011 FIVB Volleyball Junior World Championship - Women European Qualification". CEV. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ "2009 Girls' Youth World Championship Final Standing". FIVB. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  3. ^ "2009 World Championship - Serbia Team Roster". CEV. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  4. ^ "A legjobbakkal versenyezne a Diamant". 1mcmvolley.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  5. ^ "SRB Player's Biography". FIVB. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Sport u 2009. godini, šesti deo". B92 (in Serbian). Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Sara Klisura najbolji server na EP". subotica.info (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Klisura Sara". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Serbia celebrates its stars of 2010". FIVB. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Serbia's men and women honoured in Belgrade". FIVB. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  11. ^ "SRB Player's Biography". FIVB. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Foton's Klisura fancied to win MVP plum". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  13. ^ "History" (PDF). OK Vizura. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  14. ^ "Vizura - Rezultati". srbijasport.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  15. ^ "Serie A1 Women 2012/2013". flashscore.com. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  16. ^ "List of players and their respective clubs 2014/2015". inside.volleycountry.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  17. ^ "Divizia A1 Women 2014/2015". flashscore.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  18. ^ "Volleyball - Russia - Women's Super League - 2015/2016 - Home". the-sports.org. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  19. ^ "Красноярский "Енисей" продлил контракты с 8 волейболистками". rsport.ria.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  20. ^ "SARA KLISURA A SEMNAT CU CSM TÂRGOVIȘTE!". csmtargoviste.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  21. ^ "C.S.M. TARGOVISTE". CEV. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  22. ^ "ROU W: Serbian receiver in CSM Targoviste". worldofvolley.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  23. ^ "Divizia A1 Women 2016/2017". flashscore.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  24. ^ "Foton rolls with Euro stars". volleyverse.com. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  25. ^ "Foton bounces back, sweeps Cocolife for bronze in PSL". Rappler. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  26. ^ "Foton's Sara Klisura says joy of setting PSL scoring record second only to satisfaction of beating F2". SPIN.ph. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  27. ^ "PSL". foxsports.ph. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  28. ^ "Klisura, Foton target 7th victory". sports.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  29. ^ "Cocolife taps Serbian coach, spiker Klisura". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  30. ^ "PSL Grand Prix preview: Cocolife Asset Managers". ESPN 5. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  31. ^ "Superliga: Foton rallies to beat Cocolife, take home Grand Prix bronze". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  32. ^ "PSL Grand Prix Individual Awards". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  33. ^ "Volleyball - CSM TARGOVISTE. Presentation Batch. Sara Klisura and Tanja Sredic". csmtargoviste.ro. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  34. ^ "Divizia A1 Women 2018/2019 Results". flashscore.com. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  35. ^ "2019 CEV Volleyball Cup - Women". CEV. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  36. ^ "You would compete with the best in Diamant". 1mcmvolley.hu. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
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