Aleksa Šaponjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шапоњић, born 4 June 1992) is a Serbian water polo player, and a member of the Serbia men's national water polo team. His first notable competition with his national team was the 2012 European Championship in Eindhoven, the outcome was a win. He currently attends the University of California, Berkeley and plays for the CA Golden Bears water polo team.

Club career

  • 2011–____ CA Golden Bears

National career

2012 Eindhoven

On 21 January in the fourth match of the European Championship, Šaponjić scored his first goal ever for his national team in professional competition match. It was in a routine victory against Romania 14–5. On 27 January Šaponjić scored a goal in a semifinal 12–8 victory over Italy. On 29 January, Šaponjić won the European Championship with his national team beating in the final Montenegro by 9–8. This was his first medal with the national team.

Šaponjić was a member of the bronze medal winning Serbian team in water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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