Danilo Ikodinovic
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, Serbia
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n water polo
Water polo
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player who played on the bronze medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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(with Yugoslavia
Serbia men's national water polo team
The Serbia men's national water polo team represents Serbia in international water polo competitions and is controlled by the Water Polo Association of Serbia...
) and the silver medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
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(with Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia men's national water polo team
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). He received a golden badge, award for the best athlete in Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
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.
He spent the 2005/06 season playing for VK Partizan
VK Partizan
Vaterpolo klub Partizan Raiffeisen is a waterpolo club from Belgrade, Serbia. VK Partizan is one of the sport clubs in Serbia that are part of sport society Partizan. Partizan's home terrain is the pool which is part of the Sportski centar Voždovac na Banjici complex...
. He appeared for the Serbian national water polo team in 304 matches, scoring 299 goals.
In 2006, he appeared as a model in an underwear campaign for ExtremeIntimo. During the summer of 2006 he signed for Russian club Sintez Kazan.
In his first season in Sintez Kazan
Sintez Kazan
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, Ikodinović led the team to 2006/07 LEN Cup
LEN Cup
The LEN Cup is a second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Euroleague. The cup was inaugurated in 1992...
trophy as well as the Russian league title.
In late March 2008, he reached an agreement with PVK Jadran
PVK Jadran
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to play for them in 2008/09 season.
Personal
In 2000, Ikodinović married his girlfriend Anja who later that year gave birth to their daughter Andrea. The couple divorced in 2003.For a few months during 2004, he dated professional karate
Karate
is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
fighter Snežana Perić
Snežana Peric
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. The relationship was high profile with coverage in Serbian tabloids and lifestyle magazines.
Later that year Ikodinović hooked up with Serbian pop singer Nataša Bekvalac
Nataša Bekvalac
Nataša Bekvalac is a Serbian recording artist, actress and model. Her debut album was nominated for the best album that year in Serbia. Her single Nikotin was nominated for the female Serbian song of the millennium...
. Once the relationship became public on New Year's 2005 it inspired even more press coverage. In July 2006 the couple married in Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad...
. They have a daughter named Hana who was born in March 2007 while Danilo was playing at the World Championships in Melbourne. The couple divorced in January 2011.
Motorcycle accident
On Friday, June 27, 2008, around 8:20pm, Ikodinović was involved in a traffic accidentCar accident
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while riding his Yamaha R1 motorcycle
Motorcycle
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on Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
-Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
regional road near the town of Kać
KAC
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. He had been transferred to intensive care in Novi Sad where he got immediately taken in for surgery that ended up lasting almost eight hours. As a result his condition was stabilized, but remained critical. Apparently, of the numerous injuries he sustained, the heaviest trauma occurred on his right arm with severe tearing of blood vessels (nerve
Nerve
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s and arteries
Artery
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).
In the evening hours of June 28, almost twenty four hours following the accident, he underwent another vascular
Vascular
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surgery on his arm. His condition has since improved.
Investigation of the crash finished by mid November 2008 and it determined that Ikodinović was driving at a speed of 173 km/h while having blood alcohol content
Blood alcohol content
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of over 2 per mil (considered to be the medium level of alcoholic intoxication) when he hit from behind the Yugo
Yugo
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driven by Pajica Dejanović that was overtaking a tractor driven by Miroslav Kukić.
Ikodinović was charged with violating traffic safety. His case went before a judge in Novi Sad Municipal Court on March 5, 2009 where he was found guilty of causing the accident and got ordered to pay RSD
Serbian dinar
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70,000 (around €760 according to the exchange rate at the time). He also received an eight-month ban on driving a motorcycle. District public persecutor submitted an appeal on the court's decision due to not being satisfied with the amount of the fine.
The damages part of the case was settled out of court on May 26, 2009, which is when Ikodinović paid a sum to Pajica Dejanović that was in some media outlets reported to be €6,000.