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Croatian sprint canoeist
Matija Ljubek (Croatian pronunciation:
[ʎǔbek] ; 22 November 1953 – 11 October 2000) was a
Croatian
sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s and 1980s and later became a sports official.
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Born in
Belišće ,
Osijek-Baranja , Ljubek competed in four
Summer Olympics where he won four medals. This included two golds (C-1 1000 m:
1976 , C-2 500 m:
1984 with
Mirko Nišović ), one silver (C-2 1000 m: 1984 with
Mirko Nišović ), and one bronze (C-1 500 m: 1976). His trainer was
Laszlo Hingl . He also won ten medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (C-1 1000 m:
1978 , C-2 500 m:
1982 ,
1983 ; C-2 10000 m:
1985 ), three silvers (C-1 10000 m:
1981 , C-2 1000 m: 1982, 1985), and three bronzes (C-1 10000 m:
1975 , 1978; C-2 1000 m: 1983).
In
1976 he was awarded a
Golden Badge award for best athlete of
Yugoslavia .
Ljubek later became vice-president of the
Croatian Olympic Committee and served as
chef de mission for the
Croatian Olympic team .
Ljubek died in 2000 when he was shot by an estranged brother-in-law while trying to defend his mother in
Valpovo , Osijek-Baranja, six days after returning from the
2000 Summer Olympics .
Olympic results
References
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com . International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the
Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives:
BCU.org.uk .
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com . International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at
WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives:
BCU.org.uk .</ref>
Kamber, Raymond , ed. (2008).
"Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF) . CanoeICF.com .
International Canoe Federation . pp. 1–83.
Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
Mallon, Bill ; et al.
"Matija Ljubek" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
Sports Reference LLC . Archived from
the original on 3 December 2016.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition . London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 480.
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Yugoslav era (1952–90) Since independence (1991–present)
1990s 2000s
Miloš Marković ,
Matija Ljubek (2000)
Zlatko Šimenc ,
Slavko Podgorelec (2001)
Žarko Dolinar ,
Krešimir Ćosić ,
Dražen Petrović (2002)
Milan Antolković ,
Vicko Lučić (2003)
Miro Mihovilović ,
Antun Vrdoljak (2004)
Irislav Dolenec ,
Vicko Šoljan (2005)
Nikola Jurković ,
Stjepan Korbar ,
Veljko Rogošić (2006)
Miroslav Blažević ,
Ante Pavlović ,
Žarko Susić (2007)
Ivo Cipci ,
Željko Mataja ,
Josip Modrić (2008)
Zdravko Baršnik ,
Ivan Janjić ,
Renato Vučetić (2009)
2010s
Josip Čorak ,
Darko Dujmović ,
Velimir Kljaić (2010)
Ivan Fattorini ,
Dragan Milanović ,
Vinko Tomljanović (2011)
Ivan Ivančić ,
Marinko Mikulandra ,
Ratko Rudić (2012)
Jozo Alebić ,
Erna Hawelka Rađenović ,
Fredi Kramer (2013)
Vinko Bajrović ,
Anto Ćavar ,
Giuseppe Giergia (2014)
Gojko Arneri ,
Đurđica Bjedov ,
Janko Goleš (2015)
Ivo Vidović * ,
Jelica Pavličić-Štefančić ,
Luciano Sušanj (2016)
Zdenko Zorko ,
Zdravko Hebel * ,
Zina Urlić (2017)
Vladimir Janković ,
Milka Babović ,
Mate Parlov * (2018)
Zdenko Kobeščak ,
Duško Antunović * ,
Zdravko Malić (2019)
2020s * – posthumously