JANUARY: Jelena Dokic won exhibition tennis tournament in Hong Kong
(MORE). Svetislav Pesic was named new coach of the men's basketball national team (MORE). Olivera Jevtic finished second in the IAAF cross-country race in Seville (MORE). Yugoslavia's football team won the Sahara Millennium Cup (MORE). Nenad Zimonjic reached Australian Open semifinals in men's doubles (MORE). Yugoslavia dominated junior finals at Australian Open (MORE).
FEBRUARY: Yugoslavia took bronze at the 17th Men's Handball World Championship in France (MORE). Divac became first Yugoslav player participating in NBA All-Star game, while Kings and Yugoslavia's forward Predrag Stojakovic and Monarchs guard Ruthie Bolton-Holifield won the 2ball event at the NBA All-Star weekend in Washington (MORE). Milovan Djoric was named new coach of the national football team (MORE).
MARCH: Jevtic took second place in the final standings of the cross-country Cup of Europe (MORE). High jumper Dragutin Topic failed drug test (MORE). Olivera Jevtic finishes ninth at World Cross Country Championship long race in Oostende (MORE).
APRIL: Buducnost won the men's basketball cup (MORE). Yugoslav winner of the Eight-Nations Water Polo Tournament in France (MORE). Hemofarm lost to Spanish Unicaja in the Basketball Korac Cup final (MORE). Nobanda and Pomacu winners of Belgrade marathon (MORE). Having beaten Winterthur in final, Jugovic became champion of the men's handball Challenge Cup (MORE).
MAY: Yugoslav Football Association decided to replace Djoric with three-man panel (MORE). Partizan Belgrade won football Yugoslav Cup final (MORE). Becej took the fourth place at the Men's Water Polo Champions League Final Four tournament in Dubrovnik. (MORE). Jelena Dokic won Italian Open (MORE). Buducnost from Podgorica became the Yugoslav basketball champion for the third time in a row. (MORE). Yugoslavia won Athens Poseidon Waterpolo Tournament (MORE). Red Star marked the tenth anniversary of the triumph in the football Champions' Cup (MORE).
JUNE: Red Star won their 22nd Yugoslav football championship (MORE). Yugoslavia ended 4th placed at the Men's Volleyball World League final tournament (MORE). Having beaten Italy in the final match of the Men's European Water Polo Championship, Yugoslavia won for the second time the European champions' title (MORE).
JULY: Yugoslavia's basketball team took gold at European Championships for Cadets for the third time in a row (MORE). National football team placed third at Kirin Cup in Japan (MORE). Jasna Sekaric took bronze at European shooting championship in Zagreb (MORE). Yugoslavia became world's runners-up in water polo (MORE).
AUGUST: Dragan Peric fifth at World Championships in Athletics (MORE). Yugoslav men's coxless pair second at World Rowing Championships in Lucerne (MORE).
SEPTEMBER: Yugoslavia won 21 medals at Mediterranean Games
(MORE). Basketball team captured European champions' title for the eighth time. (MORE). Dokic won Toyota Cup in Tokyo (MORE). Yugoslavia new men's European volleyball champion (MORE). Dragan Stojkovic was elected as the new president of Yugoslav Football Association (MORE).
OCTOBER: Jelena Dokic won Kremlin Cup in Moscow (MORE). Football national team failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup (MORE). Dragan "Pixy" Stojkovic bade farewell to Radnicki Nis (MORE). Yugoslav Bora Milutinovic coached China to its first football World Cup (MORE).
NOVEMBER: Yugoslavia won six gold medals at kick-boxing world championship (MORE). Men's national volleyball team took third place at World Cup in Japan (MORE).
DECEMBER: Women's handball team captured medal at the world championship for the first time in 11 years (MORE). YYugoslavia candidate for 2005 European Basketball Championship (MORE). Dejan Savicevic will coach Yugoslavia's football team until next summer (MORE).
