Background
He is the son of former judoka Dragomir Bečanović.
He is the son of former judoka Dragomir Bečanović.
He represented Montenegro at the 2009 Summer Universiade in the 400 and 800 metre-races. He began training full-time with Alaska Nikšić from 2008, until he transferred to Alaska Lim (named after river Lim) of Berane in 2013. With Alaska Nikšić he specialized in the 400 metres and 800 metres, and subsequently switched to shorter-distances such as 100 metres and 200 metres with Alaska Lim.
Bečanović became the holder of the Montenegrin national post-referendum record for the 400 metre discipline when he ran a time of 49.83 seconds on June 8, 2013, beating the previous record of 49.85 seconds of Šćepan Ćetković from Alaska Nikšić by just 0.02 seconds.
At the 2013 European Team Championships, Bečanović along with Šćepan Ćetković, Dragan Pešić, and Milan Nikolić ran for Montenegro"s 4 × 400 metres relay team which ran a time of 3:25.10 minutes.