Đorđe Perišić is a Montenegrin water polo player who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City as a member of the Yugoslav men's water polo team. He was born on 6 May 1941 in Kotor, in present-day Montenegro. Before the water polo medal he swam for Yugoslavia at the 1960 Summer Olympics, entering the 200 metres breaststroke and the 4 x 100 metres medley relay. He returned to the Olympic water polo tournament in 1972, when the Yugoslav team finished fifth. Olympedia records his club affiliation as Partizan in Belgrade, lists a water polo gold medal at the 1967 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, and notes that he received the Olympic Order in silver in 2000.
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notable for winning a gold medal in Mexico City in 1968
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