Tijana Malešević (Serbian Cyrillic : Тијана Малешевић; born 18 March 1991) is a Serbian volleyball player, who plays for OK Crvena zvezda, and was a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2011 European Championship in Serbia and Italy and 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Azerbaijan and Georgia, and gold medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship held in Japan.
She signed with the Turkish club Sarıyer Belediyespor for the 2014–15 season. [1] On 18 December 2018 Tijana signed with Serbian powerhouse OK Crvena zvezda. On 25 January 2019 Tijana signed contract for second part of the 2018-19 season with Serie A1 member, Il Bisonte Firenze. At the start of the 2019/20 season, Tijana returned to Belgrade and OK Crvena zvezda. She is the sister of Serbian basketball player Nikola Malešević.
The Serbia women's national volleyball team is governed by the Volleyball Federation of Serbia and takes part in international volleyball competitions.
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