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Merčep, Duje Pejković, Franko Lazić, Lovro Paparić, Matias Biljaka, Petar Bratim, Branimir Herceg i Luka Bajić, koja je na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Podgorici osvojila zlato. Nagradu Dražen Petrović za najbolji par, štafetu ili posadu dobile su članice ženskog juniorskog veslačkog četverca u sastavu Ivana Jurković, Josipa Jurković, Bruna Milinović i Izabela Krakić koje su svjetske i europske juniorske prvakinje. Njima je nagradu uručio zlatni rukometni olimpijac Goran Šprem. Za najveću nadu hrvatskog športa u ženskoj konkurenciji proglašena je karatistica Lea Vukoja, europska kadetska prvakinja kojoj je nagradu predao predsjednik Odbora Damir Martin. U muškoj konkurenciji to je Paško Božić brončani s europskog kadetskog taekwondo prvenstva kojem je nagradu uručila srebrna olimpijka, negdašnja vrhunska košarkašica Danira Bilić. Nagrada je pisana povelja sa stiliziranim likom Dražena Petrovića, novčani iznos i prikladni poklon kojeg su ove godine dali članovi Hrvatske marketinške olimpijske obitelji: tvrtka F4, sponzor službene opreme hrvatskih olimpijaca u čije ime je uručio predsjednik uprave distributera "Top Sport 98" Marko Bljaić te McDonalds čiji je dar uručila direktorica marketinga Ivana Šapina. Roko Škarica, Viktor Šarić, Boris Tišma, Mislav Majić Hrvatska U18 šahovska reprezentacija: Leon Livaić, Jadranko Plenča, Sven Tica, Teo Tomulić ŠTAFETA ILI POSADA osada ju iorsko e sko vesla ko etver a Ivana Jurković, Josipa Jurković, Bruna Milinović, Izabela Krakić Matea Juričić i Mihael Grivičić kuglanje Posada juniorskog muškog veslačkog dvojca: Patrik Lončarić, Anton Lončarić
H Lea Vukoja - karate Hana Arapović - stolni tenis Nika Klepac - taekwondo Lara Cvjetko - judo H a ko Bo ić - taekwondo Marko Džin - kickboxing
amir Marti i ea ukoja
o i uko u Košarkaškoj kući slav i Trostruki olimpijac s dva srebra, svjetski i europski prvak, proslavljeni hrvatski košarkaš Toni Kukoč, izabran je u Košarkašku kuću slavnih Međunarodnog košarkaškog saveza (FIBA), zajedno s velikim američkim centrom Shaquilleom O'Nealom te originalnim "Dream Teamom", američkom reprezentacijom koja je
Celebration of 25th anniversary of performance at the Barcelona Olympics On the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Croatian athletes’ first appearance at the Summer Olympics under their own Croatian flag in Barcelona in 1992, the Croatian Olympic Committee (HOO) hosted the occasional celebration with the members of the first Croatian Olympic delegation headed by the then director of the Croatian Olympic Committee, Marijan Malović. The invitation of the host, Croatian Olympic Committee’s President Zlatko Mateša, was responded by most of the 41 athletes, including the most successful Croatian tennis player of all time and one of the best Croatian athletes at all, Goran Ivanišević, who was also the first Croatian flag-bearer at the Barcelona Olympics. "I am honored to be one of the first to pave the way to the brilliant generations of Croatian athletes", said Ivanišević, whose bronze medal from Barcelona is the first individual Olympic medal for independent Croatia. The celebration was joined by members of the professional staffs and among them the Olympic champion, then the coach Petar Skansi who was - along with Aleksandar Petrović, Rato Tvrdić and Boris Lalić - a part of basketball staff in Barcelona. "The only team I had no motivational problems with was the basketball team from Barcelona. I am honored to be able to testify about that time", said Skansi, silver medalist from Mexico City in 1968. Barcelona was not only a matter of right to perform after the provisional but crucial recognition of the International Olympic Committee just a couple of months prior to the performance on January 17, 1992, but also the opportunity to make the best selection of athletes and achieving the best results despite the completed qualifications for the Olympics. At the end of February 1992, almost around the corner of the Olympic Games in Barcelona, the then leadership, President and Secretary General of the Croatian Olympic Committee, Antun Vrdoljak and Slavko Podgorelec, and members of the Council were working hard on the project of Croatian athletes’ performance at the Olympics. According to the first Secretary General Podgorelac, the emphasis was put on three key goals; selection of athletes who can achieve high sports results, those who will contribute to the promotion of the Republic of Croatia with their behavior and realize - in spite of difficult material and war conditions in the country - the Olympic Games project extremely rationally. Antun Vrdoljak, the first President and today honorary member of the Croatian and International Olympic Committee, whose member he was from 1995 until 2012, has a living memory of the times in which he hoped for something "more" than just good result. His impressions still bear the seal of the enthusiasm from the first Olympic performance. "One does not forget that time", said the first President of the Croatian Olympic Committee and added that for the performance in Barcelona, "one should thank the then President of the International Olympic Committee Samaranch, a proven sports friend of Croatian sport and the first honorary member of the Croatian Olympic Committee, dr. Franjo Tuđman, who loved and appreciated Croatian sports and sportsmen immensely."
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