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Born | Subotica, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia | 20 July 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
He is the father of basketball player Nikola Kalinić (b. 1991).[5]
See also
References
- ^ "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
External links
- "KALINIC Zoran (YUG)". ITTF.
- "Zoran Kalinić" (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- Living people
- 1958 births
- Sportspeople from Subotica
- Serbian male table tennis players
- Yugoslav table tennis players
- Olympic table tennis players for Yugoslavia
- Olympic table tennis players as Independent Olympic Participants
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Serbia and Montenegro sportsmen
- European champions for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Table tennis coaches
- Serbian sports coaches
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Austria
- European table tennis biography stubs
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