Zoran Gajic, born December 28, 1958, in Pancevo, Yugoslavia, played Volleyball from 1973 to 1983 for the teams of Mladost from Omoljica and Jedinstvo from Stara Pazova. In 1976 and 1977 he played for Junior National Team in the Vojvodina region. 
From 1980 till 1983 he worked as a coach and also stayed active as a player. In 1983 he finished as a player and start to work solely as coach. He has been very successful as a Club coach with various teams in Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey, winning many National Championships.

He has also been successful coaching at National Team level. From 1987 to 1990, he was assistant coach of the Junior National Team of Yugoslavia. From 1990-1992, he was Head Coach of the Junior National team of Yugoslavia, claiming ninth place at the Junior World Championship in Egypt.

From 1995 to 2002, he was Head coach of the National Team of Yugoslavia, where he found great success.

He led the team to bronze at the 1995 European Championship in Athens, Greece, bronze at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, silver at the 1997 European Championship in Eindhoven, Netherlands and silver at the 1998 World Championship in Japan.

His greatest achievement was leading Yugoslavia to gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.