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Hrvoje Kačić

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Croatian water polo player (1932–2023)
Hrvoje Kačić
Kačić in 1956
Personal information
Born(1932年01月13日)January 13, 1932
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
DiedFebruary 14, 2023(2023年02月14日) (aged 91)
Zagreb, Croatia
Sport
SportWater polo
Medal record
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Team Competition
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1958 Budapest Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 1950 Vienna Team Competition
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1959 Beirut Team Competition

Hrvoje Kačić (13 January 1932 – 14 February 2023) was a Croatian water polo player, legal scholar and politician.

Biography

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Kačić was born in Dubrovnik on 13 January 1932.[1] At the age of 18, Kačić played for the Yugoslavia national water polo team at the 1950 European Water Polo Championship at which the team won bronze.[2] During the 1950s he became out of favour with Yugoslavia's communist regime and had his passport confiscated on three occasions.[2] He was jailed by the regime in 1952 which prevented him from joining the national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2] He was also expelled from university.

Kačić competed with the national team at the 1956 Summer Olympics,[3] during which his friend and teammate Ivo Štakula defected to Australia.[2] In 1957, he was awarded the Sportske novosti Croatian Sportsman of the Year. At the 1959 Mediterranean Games he won a gold medal.[1] On the club level he was a long-time member of Croatian waterpolo club Jug from Dubrovnik, multiple national champion.

In 1956 he finished a degree in law.[4] He later finished a doctorate in law in 1965 at the University of Zagreb, specializing in maritime law.[5] Kačić also wrote about history.[6] He has collaborated with Ivo Pilar Institute of History.[7]

Kačić was elected to the Croatian Parliament for the first time in the country's first democratic elections in 1990 as an independent candidate.[8] From 1994 to 2001 he was president of the State Commission for Borders of the Republic of Croatia.[8]

In 1994 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.[9] He has served on the committee which gives out the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport.[10] Kačić still actively supported Croatian water polo, retaining a position in the Croatian Water Polo Federation and supporting the national team.[11]

Kačić died in Zagreb, Croatia, on 14 February 2023, at the age of 91.[12] [13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gizdić, Jurica (2016). Hrvatski olimpijci i odličnici (PDF) (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee. p. 263. ISBN 978-953-7912年05月5日. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Olimpijske legende: Hrvoje Kačić". Olimp (in Croatian) (15). Croatian Olympic Committee. June 2005. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hrvoje Kačić". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Reprinted and new edition of Hrvoje Kačić's U službi domovine". Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2008.
  5. ^ Granting recognition
  6. ^ Partisans killed Croatian anti-fascists Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hrvoje Kačić, Glas Koncila
  7. ^ News in short Archived 30 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Croatian Radiotelevision
  8. ^ a b "Hrvoje Kačić". matica.hr (in Croatian). Matica hrvatska . Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Matija Ljubek Award". Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2008.
  10. ^ "Recipients of the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport in 2002". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2008.
  11. ^ "Vaterpoliste dočekalo 30.000 ljudi" [Waterpolo players met by 30,000]. Nacional (in Croatian). 3 April 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  12. ^ "Umro srebrni hrvatski olimpijac i jedan od najvećih igrača Juga u povijesti". Index.hr. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  13. ^ "U 91. godini u Zagrebu preminuo legendarni vaterpolski olimpijac Hrvoje Kačić". HOO (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
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Yugoslav era
(1952–90)
Since independence
(1991–present)

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