 Eventually, in 1980, he became a bronze-medalist at the Moscow Olympics.He used to be a coach at The Dwight School in Manhattan and trained many champions in various sports including wrestling, tennis, basketball, and sailing, among others.Since the late 1990s Radomir Kovačević held a three-to-four-hour-long Judo class on Saturdays at the Spartak Judo Club, in Forest Hills.