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Joško Vlašić
Joško Vlašić (; born 22 July 1956) is a Croatian athletics coach and a former decathlete who represented Yugoslavia. Vlašić's greatest competitive success was winning the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, but he is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić, a world champion high jumper. Biography Joško Vlašić was born in 1956 in Split. He started with athletics in ASK Split, a local club. His coach Ante Tešija decided Vlašić would do well in decathlon, describing him as "tall and skinny". According to Tešija, Vlašić was initially very skeptical regarding his aptitude for the sport, but he was tenacious, loved to train, and the results came quickly. In the following years, Vlašić became the leading Yugoslav decathlete, winning five consecutive national championships, from 1979 to 1983. He won two decathlon medals in consecutive Mediterranean Games: bronze in 1979, and gold in 1983. His first child, Blanka Vlašić (born 1983), was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 World Championships In Athletics
The 1st World Championships in Athletics (; ) were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium (Helsinki), Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983. Despite the existence of previously held championship events in both 1976 World Championships in Athletics, 1976 and 1980 World Championships in Athletics, 1980, this 1983 championship was marked as the inaugural World Championship. Summary The overall medal table was a closely contested affair. East Germany took the most gold medals (10) over the first championships and finished with a total of 22 medals. The United States had the second number of gold medals, with eight, and also had the greatest overall medal haul, having won 24 medals. The Soviet Union won one more medal than the East Germans and had six golds, although almost half of their podium finishers were bronze medalists. Twenty-five nations reached the medal tally at the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportske Novosti
''Sportske novosti'' () is a Croatian daily sports newspaper based in Zagreb. The newspaper was established on 9 August 1945 as ''Ilustrirane fiskulturne novine'' weekly newspaper. Several months later, on 10 December 1945, its name was changed to ''Narodni sport''. From March 1949, its publishing frequency increased to twice a week, and from 1951 to three times per week. History In 1999, the newspaper was acquired by Europapress Holding publishing company. Since 2001, it has regularly been published on Sunday. Later that year, the ''Sportske novosti'' Footballer of the Year award for the best footballer in the world – as voted by some of the world's top coaches and players – was established. On 30 December 2005, Zvonimir Boban was appointed CEO of ''Sportske novosti'', who later announced that the newspaper would in the future give more attention to football-related news. He resigned from his position in December 2008 due to his long-standing dissatisfaction with the edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slobodna Dalmacija
(, where "Free" is an adjective) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split. History was first issued on 17 June 1943 by Tito's Partisans in an abandoned stone barn on Mosor, a mountain near Split, while the city was occupied by the Italian army. The paper was later published in various locations until Split was liberated on 26 October 1944. From the following day onward, has been published in Split. Another reason for this success was the editorial policy of Joško Kulušić, who used the decline of Communism to allow the paper to become a forum for new political ideas. In the early 1990s, established a reputation as a newspaper with a politically diverse group of columnists, both left-leaning and those who supported the government. However, the ruling right-wing Croatian Democratic Union tried discredit it, calling the journalists too "liberal", "communist" or "Yugoslav". At that time it had a circulation of 90,000 to 100,000 copies. In 1992, the government init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. ''The Independent'' won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. History 1980s Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at ''The Daily Telegraph'' who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, racewalking, race walking, mountain running, and ultramarathon, ultra running. Included in its charge is the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of list of world records in athletics, world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected to the four-year position in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 for a second four-year term, and then again in 2023 for a third four-year term. History The process to found World Athletics began in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria (magazine)
''Gloria'' is a Croatian language weekly women's magazine published in Zagreb, Croatia. As of 2007, it was the best-selling weekly magazine in Croatia. History and profile ''Gloria'' was first published on 8 February 1994. The magazine is published on a weekly basis. With a circulation of 130,000 copies in 2007, ''Gloria'' was the best-selling weekly magazine in Croatia. A significant part of the magazine's circulation is sold in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A licensed edition of the magazine is published by Europapress Beograd, a subsidiary of Europapress Holding, and the magazine is sold in Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Republika Srpska. ''Glorias focus is coverage of the international jet set, as well as Croatian high society events. Like many other women's magazines, ''Gloria'' has columns on beauty, fashion trends, and sex and romance. One of the magazine's regular columnists was Žuži Jelinek Žuži Jelinek (born Suzana Ferber; 17 July 1920 – 23 January 2016) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics Weekly
''AW'' (formerly ''Athletics Weekly'') is a monthly track and field magazine published in the United Kingdom by Athletics Weekly Limited. The magazine covers news, results, fixtures, coaching and product advice for all aspects of track and field, cross-country, road racing and race walking. Between 1950 and 2020, it was called ''Athletics Weekly'' and was published weekly. In addition to its main website, ''Athletics Weekly'' partners with the UK Athletics site ''Power Of 10'' and owns records data website ''GBR Athletics''. Jimmy Green years (1945 to 1987) The magazine was started as a monthly by PW "Jimmy" Green in 1945, with the first few issues produced from the back bedroom of a bungalow in Kent which Green shared with his wife, Pam. With post-war paper rationing still in force, Green used a mixture of determination and devilment to launch the first, self-published edition. It was numbered Volume II Issue I, but this was a deliberate error to fool the government into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Vlašić
Nikola Vlašić (; born 4 October 1997) is a Croatian professional Association football, footballer who plays as an Midfielder (association football)#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder for Italian Serie A club Torino FC, Torino and the Croatia national football team, Croatia national team. Born into a prominent Croatian sports family, Nikola is a youth product of HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split HNK Hajduk Split Reserves and Academy, academy. He made his senior debut in summer 2014, making ''The Guardian'''s ''Next Generation'' list later that year. In 2017, his performances earned him a move to Everton F.C., Everton; however, after an unsuccessful 2017–18 Everton F.C. season, season, he was loaned out to PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow who made the move permanent upon the end of the 2018–19 PFC CSKA Moscow season, season. Vlašić made his international debut in 2017, before becoming a regular international after Croatia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Croatia's 2018 FIFA Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-country Skiing (sport)
Competitive cross-country skiing encompasses a variety of race formats and course lengths. Rules of cross-country skiing are sanctioned by the International Ski Federation and by various national organizations. International competitions include the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, the FIS Cross-Country World Cup, and at the Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympic Games. Such races occur over homologated, groomed courses designed to support Cross-country skiing#Classic, classic (in-track) and freestyle events, where the skiers may employ Cross-country skiing#Skate skiing, skate skiing. It also encompasses cross-country ski marathon events, sanctioned by the Worldloppet Ski Federation, and cross-country ski orienteering events, sanctioned by the International Orienteering Federation. Related forms of competition are biathlon, where competitors race on cross-country skis and stop to shoot at targets with rifles, and paralympic cross-country skiing that allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Athletics Federation
The Croatian Athletics Federation () is the governing body for the sport of athletics (sport), athletics in Croatia. It was founded in 1992 after Croatia had announced independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Medalists at Olympic Games Medalists at World Championship Medalists at European Championship Medalists at World Indoor Championship Medalists at European Indoor Championship World Athletics annual series of competitions Winners Diamond League Field disciplines *Sandra Perković - 6 times *Blanka Vlašić - 2 times References External links Official site National members of the European Athletic Association, Croatia Sports organizations established in 1992 Sports governing bodies in Croatia, Athletics Athletics in Croatia 1992 establishments in Croatia National governing bodies for athletics {{athletics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KK Split
Košarkaški klub Split (), commonly referred to as KK Split or simply Split, is a men's professional basketball Sports club, club based in Split, Croatia, Split, Croatia. The club competes in the ABA League and the HT Premijer liga, Croatian League. Under its former name of KK Jugoplastika, the club was one of the most successful of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav era, winning several national titles in the 1970s and the 1980s. By winning the EuroLeague, FIBA European Champions Cup for three consecutive years, from 1989 to 1991, it is also one of the most successful clubs in the history of European basketball. History The club's roots are found in Hajduk sports society's basketball section, which was established in 1945. After three years of mostly sporadic activity, in 1948, the club established its own organizational structure known as KK Hajduk, which was independent of sports society. In the next year, 1949, the club changed its name to KK Split. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
