Milos Maksimovic

Born in Subotica, Serbia, Milos Maksimovic began playing water polo at the age of 10. After watching the final game of Montreal 2005 World Aquatics Championships and seeing his home nation win gold, Milos knew he wanted to pursue the sport.

With one of Serbia's most popular sports being water polo, the Novi-Sad local began his professional career at the age of 18, playing for the city's water polo team, VK Vojvodina.

Playing for VK Vojvodina from 2012 to 2017 with a year stint playing in France in between, Milos then went on to play for multiple clubs in Europe from 2017 to 2021, playing in Greece, Montenegro before eventually returning to his local team VK Vojvodina in 2019.

Milos also played for Serbia's youth international water polo teams.

But it was in 2022 when Milos moved to Australia, joining AWPL (Australian Water Polo League) club ACU Cronulla Sharks and becoming a water polo coach at Scots College.

After becoming a naturalised citizen of Australia, Milos made his debut for the Sharks in a January 2023 test series against Japan, which Australia won 2-1.

In 2024 Milos played in his first major international tournament at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, playing in five games. With 15 international caps, Milos is set to add to that at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics Milos and the Sharks recorded statement wins over defending Olympic champion Serbia, host nation France and Hungary in the group stage. Milos scored a hat-trick in the France win.

Finishing second in their group, it gave Australia a place in the men's Olympic quarter-finals for the first time since London 2012.

A penalty-shootout loss to the USA in the quarter-finals sent the Sharks into the 5th-8th classification games and they came away in 8th place, up from the team's 9th overall placing at Tokyo 2020.