 He had to quit running on doctor's orders in the early 2000s when he severely injured his knee in the Cer-Šabac race.He then promptly switched to racewalking and won three gold medals in the 5 km event for Serbia and Montenegro at the veteran Balkan Games, the last one in 2005.In late 2006, Mimoun, Mihalić and Karvonen, the three marathon medalists in the 1956 Olympics, met in Paris in a reunion organized by the French sports daily "L'Équipe" on the 50th anniversary of the Olympic marathon in Melbourne.