Hrvoje Kačić
Hrvoje Kačić (13 January 1932 – 14 February 2023) was a Croatian water polo player, legal scholar and politician.
Kačić in 1956 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Waterpolo | ||
| Representing Yugoslavia | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| 1956 Melbourne | Team Competition | |
| European Championship | ||
| 1958 Budapest | Team Competition | |
| 1950 Vienna | Team Competition | |
| Mediterranean Games | ||
| 1959 Beirut | Team Competition | |
Biography edit
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, 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.[3] He later finished a doctorate in law in 1965 at the University of Zagreb, specializing in maritime law.[4] Kačić also wrote about history.[5] He has collaborated with Ivo Pilar Institute of History.[6]
Kačić was elected to the Croatian Parliament for the first time in the country's first democratic elections in 1990 as an independent candidate.[7] From 1994 to 2001 he was president of the State Commission for Borders of the Republic of Croatia.[7]
In 1994 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.[8] He has served on the committee which gives out the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport.[9] Kačić still actively supported Croatian water polo, retaining a position in the Croatian Water Polo Federation and supporting the national team.[10]
Kačić died on 14 February 2023, at the age of 91.[11]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Reprinted and new edition of Hrvoje Kačić's U službi domovine
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- ^ Partisans killed Croatian anti-fascists 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hrvoje Kačić, Glas Koncila
- ^ News in short 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. 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.
External links edit
- Hrvoje Kačić at Olympics.com
- Hrvoje Kačić at Olympedia
- at the Croatian Olympic Committee (archived) (in Croatian)