Svetlana Kitić

Svetlana Kitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Китић, born 19 June 1960) is a Yugoslav retired professional handball player who competed at the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia, and was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in the early 2000s. In 2010, she was voted the best female handball player ever by the IHF.[1][2]

Svetlana Kitić
Personal information
Full name	Svetlana Kitić
Born	19 June 1960 Tuzla, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Centre back
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1976–1980	Jedinstvo Tuzla
1980–1992	Radnički Belgrade
1996–2000	Željezničar
2000–2006	Jedinstvo Tuzla
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1991	Yugoslavia	202	(911)
2002–2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Medal record Women's Handball Representing  Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team 1984 Los Angeles Team World Championship 1990 South Korea Team Junior World Championship 1977 Romania Team 1979 Yugoslavia Team Mediterranean Games 1979 Split Team

Biography

Late in her career Kitić returned to her homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, and simultaneously coached and played for Sarajevo based handball club Željezničar and later for Jedinstvo, club from her hometown Tuzla and where she started professional career in handball as 16-year-old girl. It is interesting regarding Jedinstvo from Tuzla is that she played together with her oldest daughter Mara Kitić on Jedinstvo's first team. In 2002, she entered Bosnian women's national handball team which took part in qualifications for 2003 World Championship in Zagreb. Bosnia with Kitić reached the barrage but failed to qualify. After that Kitić took the role of Director of Bosnian women's national handball team and served between 2006 and 2008.[3][4]

She last played for Radnički in Belgrade, Serbia.[5] Svetlana lives in Belgrade with her family.

In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 29 goals. Four years later she won the gold medal as member of the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 22 goals. In all her representative career she played 202 matches and scored the incredible number of 911 goals. She was voted World Player of the Year 1988 by the International Handball Federation.[6]

She won the Oscar Of Popularity for the year 2010 in Serbia.[7]

Personal life

She was previously married to a former Bosnian football player Blaž Slišković. After four months they divorced and she married Dragan Dašić, but divorced him after four years of marriage. Kitić is a mother of three adult children.

Honours

Player

Radnički Belgrade

• Yugoslav Women's Handball Championship: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
• Yugoslav Women's Handball Cup: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992
• Women's EHF Champions League: 1975–76, 1979–80, 1983–84
• Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1985–86, 1990–91, 1990–91, 1991–92

Yugoslavia Youth

• IHF Women's Junior World Championship: 1977, third-place 1979

Yugoslavia

• Summer Olympics: runner-up 1980, 1984
• IHF World Women's Handball Championship: runner-up 1990
• Mediterranean Games: 1979

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 August 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. http://www.sarajevo-x.com/sport/rukomet/clanak/100804129
3. "Svetlana Kitić: Najbolja rukometašica svih vremena". Svijet Rukometa (in Bosnian). Svijet Rukometa/Oslobodjenje. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
4. "U Tuzli promovisana knjiga o najboljoj rukometašici". SportSport.ba (in Bosnian). October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
5. Svetlana Kitić za "Ginisa"
6. "Previous World Handball Players". International Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
7. http://www.pressonline.rs/sr/vesti/dzet_set_svet/story/149619/Ceci+Kiti%C4%87+Oskar+za+li%C4%8Dnost+godine.html

External links

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