Zoran Kalinić
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| Full name | Kalinić Zoran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 July 1958 Subotica, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zoran Kalinić (born 20 July 1958) is a Serbian retired table tennis player who represented SFR Yugoslavia (1976–1991) and FR Yugoslavia (1991–1998).
Table tennis career
[edit]He began playing table tennis in 1969. He turned pro in 1976. He won 15 medals in European and World championships.
His four World Championship medals[1][2] included a gold medal in the doubles at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships with Dragutin Šurbek.[3][4]
He also won two English Open titles.
He was nominated for the Sportsperson of Yugoslavia in 1994. He is the current national association president.
Biography
[edit]He is the father of basketball player Nikola Kalinić (b. 1991).[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ Velimirović, I. "Zoran Kalinić za Blic: Nikola, zakucaj i Brazil!" (in Croatian).
Further reading
[edit]External links
[edit]- "KALINIC Zoran (YUG)". ITTF.
- "Zoran Kalinić" (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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