Career
After his sporting career ended in 2000, Gojkovic worked in various swim clubs across Great Britain and some parts of Eastern Europe. Early years
He accepted a full scholarship to attend the Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, as an exchange student. He played for the school"s swimming team, and also lettered in water polo, before his graduation in 1990.
International career
Gojkovic became the first ever swimmer to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona since the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
In the 100 m butterfly, Gojkovic posted a new Bosnian record of 56.81 to earn a second spot and forty-fourth overall in heat one, trailing Spain"s top favorite Martín López-Zubero by a full body length of 2.77 seconds. Three days later, in the 200 m butterfly, he pulled off another second spot in the same heat at 2:09.08, but finished only in forty-first overall out of 46 swimmers from the prelims.
Shortly after his first Games, Gojkovic left a war-torn Bosnia as a civil war victim, and later attended college in Sheffield, England, where he majored in business and management. Following his graduation in 1996, Gojkovic traveled with the Bosnian team to the United States for a two-month pre-Olympic camp in Pell City, Alabama.
Upon his team"s arrival, the Bosnians received a warm welcome from the local residents, gathering on street corners and waving blue and gold flags.
Gojkovic admitted that while his team gathered through the city proper, he opened a large atlas, and could not find a place called Pell City: "I didn"t believe there was such a place."
Two years later, at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia, Gojkovic delivered a spectacular swim with a thirty-third place effort in the 100 m butterfly, posting a lifetime best of 56.02. Gojkovic swam only in the men"s 100 m butterfly, as a 27-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He stormed home on the final lap to lead the second heat in a new Bosnian record of 55.55, holding off a fast-pacing Aleksandar Miladinovski of Macedonia by seven hundredths of a second (007).
Gojkovic"s best effort was not enough to advance him into the semifinals, as he shared a thirty-ninth place tie with Venezuela"s Oswaldo Quevedo in the prelims.
After his sporting career ended in 2000, Gojkovic worked as an age group coach in various swim clubs across Great Britain and some parts of Eastern Europe. He spent four years at Maxwell Swim Club in Aylesbury, England, before returning to his native Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004.
Currently, Gojkovic is appointed as the president and chief executive officer of PK Sarajevo and also, a media marketing manager for an advertising agency Via Mediji.
