Hrvoje Kačić
Hrvoje Kačić (born 13 January 1932[1]) is a former Croatian water polo player, legal scholar and politician.
Kačić in 1956 | ||
Medal record | ||
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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 |
Kačić was born in Dubrovnik in 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.
He 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 writes about history.[5] He has collaborated with Ivo Pilar Institute of History.[6]
He 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 supports Croatian water polo, retaining a position in the Croatian Water Polo Federation and supporting the national team.[10]
References
- 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.
- "Olimpijske legende: Hrvoje Kačić". Olimp (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee (15). 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
- Granting recognition
- Partisans killed Croatian anti-fascists Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, Hrvoje Kačić, Glas Koncila
- News in short Archived 2009-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Croatian Radiotelevision
- "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 30 June 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
External links
- Hrvoje Kačić at International Olympic Committee
- Hrvoje Kačić at Croatian Olympic Committee (in Croatian)
- Hrvoje Kačić at Olympedia