This document profiles several prominent Croatian athletes across various sports. It discusses the accomplishments of winter Olympians Janica Kostelić and Ivica Kostelić in alpine skiing. It also mentions high jumper Blanka Vlašić, tennis player Goran Ivanišević, taekwondo practitioners Lucija Zaninović and Ana Zaninović, discus thrower Sandra Perković, free diver Goran Čolak, tennis player Iva Majoli, footballer Davor Šuker, and the successes of the Croatian national handball and football teams.

1. Croatian athletes
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February 2015

2. Croatian athletes

3. JanicaJanica
KostelićKostelić
• Croatian “snow queen” Janica KostelićCroatian “snow queen” Janica Kostelić
won four gold and two silver medals atwon four gold and two silver medals at
the Winter Olimpics, five gold medals atthe Winter Olimpics, five gold medals at
the World Championships, three bigthe World Championships, three big
and three small crystal globes.and three small crystal globes.

4. Ivica Kostelić
Ivica and Janica were trained by
their father Ante and their family is
often referred to as the sports
dynasty with the most trophies.
Some of Ivica’s results are:
- Three silver olympic medals
(slalom, traditional combined and
super combined);
- The World Championship gold
medal in slalom;
- The World Championship silver in
super combined;
- The World championship bronze
medal in super-G.

5. Blanka Vlašić
• Croatian athlete,
Croatian record
holder(208 cm –ranks
second in the all-time
high jump rankings)
and two time World
Champion in high
jump.

6. GoranGoran
IvaniševićIvanišević
He is a retired Croatian
tennis player and 2001
Wimbledon winner.
He was a member of
the Croatian team that
won the Davis Cup.
He won two bronze
olympic medals.
His career-high singles
ranking was World No.
2 in 1994.

7. Lucija
Zaninović
• Croatian taekwondo
practitioner and 2010
European champion
in Saint Petersburg.
Ana Zaninović
• Croatian taekwondo
practitioner
• Her biggest career
success is winning
2011 World
Championship in South
Korea and the silver
medal in 2007 World
Championship in
Beijing.

8. Sandra
Perković
• Croatian athlete, a discus
throw record holder and a
former shot put record
holder. Olympic, World
and triple European
champion in discus
throw.

9. Goran Čolak
• Croatian athlete and diver, he is a free dive world
record holder and holds the Guinness world record
in static apnea on pure oxygen at 23 minutes and
one second.
• He is a European and world free dive champion, the
best Croatian diver who was nominated for the
Croatian athlete of the year award several times.
Also, he holds several world records and won
several gold medals in different World
Championships.

10. Iva Majoli
• The best Croatian
female tennis
player, 1997 French
Open winner. In her
career she won nine
WTA tournaments,
eight singles titles
and one doubles
title.

11. Davor Šuker• One of the best and
world famous
Craotian footballers
of all time, leader of
“the golden
geneartion” in the
1990s, the top goal
scorer of the Croatian
national team and the
Golden Boot winner
in the 1998 World
Cup.

12. Croatian national
handball team
• Gold medal, three silver
medals and a bronze
medal at the World
Championship;
• Two gold medals and
one bronze medal at the
Olympics;
• Two silver medals and
two bronze medals at
the European
Championship.

13. Croatian
national
football team
• the best result is the
bronze medal at the 1998
World Cup in France
• the most famous
Croatian foootball players
are: Davor Šuker, Robert
Prosinečki, Zvonimir
Boban, Luka Modrić.