Nebojša Popović (handballer)

Nebojša Popović, born on 28 April 1947 in Prijedor, is a Bosnian Serb former handball player who represented Yugoslavia at two Olympic Games. He was part of the Yugoslav men's team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, playing all six matches of the tournament and scoring eleven goals. Four years later he was a member of the Yugoslav squad at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where the team finished fifth; he again played all six matches and scored fourteen goals. Olympedia records his club affiliation as RK Borac of Banja Luka, and his Olympic medal record as a single gold. His career is a compact example of the strength of Yugoslav handball in the early 1970s, when the national team took the Olympic title and Yugoslav players were prominent in the European game.