Hrvoje Kačić
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Born | (1932-01-13)January 13, 1932 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | February 14, 2023(2023-02-14) (aged 91) Zagreb, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hrvoje Kačić (13 January 1932 – 14 February 2023) was a Croatian water polo player, legal scholar and politician.
Biography
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
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
- ^ a b Gizdić, Jurica (2016). Hrvatski olimpijci i odličnici (PDF) (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee. p. 263. ISBN 978-953-7912-05-5. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Reprinted and new edition of Hrvoje Kačić's U službi domovine
- ^ Granting recognition
- ^ Partisans killed Croatian anti-fascists Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hrvoje Kačić, Glas Koncila
- ^ News in short Archived 30 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Croatian Radiotelevision
- ^ a b "Hrvoje Kačić". matica.hr (in Croatian). Matica hrvatska. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Matija Ljubek Award
- ^ Recipients of the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport in 2002
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Umro srebrni hrvatski olimpijac i jedan od najvećih igrača Juga u povijesti". Index.hr. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "U 91. godini u Zagrebu preminuo legendarni vaterpolski olimpijac Hrvoje Kačić". HOO (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
External links
- Hrvoje Kačić at World Aquatics
- Hrvoje Kačić at Olympics.com
- Hrvoje Kačić at Olympedia
- Hrvoje Kačić at the Croatian Olympic Committee (in Croatian) (archived)
- v
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(1952–90)
- Duje Bonačić / Petar Šegvić / Mate Trojanović / Velimir Valenta (1952)
- Perica Vlašić (1953)
- Žarko Dolinar (1954)
- Bernard Vukas (1955)
- Krešo Račić (1956)
- Hrvoje Kačić (1957)
- Joško Murat (1958)
- Duje Smoljanović (1959)
- Željko Perušić (1960)
- Boro Jovanović (1961)
- Boro Jovanović / Nikola Pilić (1962)
- Josip Gjergja (1963)
- Nikola Pilić (1964)
- Andro Depolo (1965)
- Cvjetko Bilić (1966)
- Nikola Pilić (1967)
- Dragutin Šurbek (1968–69)
- Petar Skansi (1970)
- Mate Parlov (1971–73)
- Luciano Sušanj (1974)
- Antun Stipančić (1975)
- Matija Ljubek (1976)
- Joško Alebić (1977)
- Milan Janić (1978)
- Dragutin Šurbek (1979)
- Krešimir Ćosić (1980)
- Dragutin Šurbek (1981)
- Matija Ljubek (1982)
- Dragutin Šurbek (1983)
- Vlado Lisjak (1984)
- Dražen Petrović (1985–86)
- Ivan Šabjan (1987)
- Zoran Primorac (1988)
- Toni Kukoč (1989–90)
(1991–present)
- Toni Kukoč (1991)
- Goran Ivanišević (1992–94)
- Željko Mavrović (1995)
- Goran Ivanišević (1996)
- Željko Mavrović (1997)
- Davor Šuker (1998)
- Gordan Kožulj (1999)
- Nikolaj Pešalov (2000)
- Goran Ivanišević (2001)
- Ivica Kostelić (2002–03)
- Duje Draganja (2004)
- Ivan Ljubičić (2005–06)
- Ivano Balić (2007)
- Filip Ude (2008)
- Ivica Kostelić (2009–11)
- Giovanni Cernogoraz (2012)
- Mario Mandžukić (2013)
- Marin Čilić (2014)
- Ivan Rakitić (2015)
- Damir Martin (2016)
- Tin Srbić (2017)
- Luka Modrić (2018)
- Tin Srbić (2019)
- Domagoj Duvnjak (2020)
- Tin Srbić (2021)
- Luka Modrić (2022)
- Tin Srbić (2023)