Borislava Perić-Ranković

Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Serbia
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de JaneiroIndividual class 4
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de JaneiroTeams class 4-5
Silver medal – second place2008 BeijingIndividual class 4
Silver medal – second place2012 LondonIndividual class 4
World Para Table Tennis Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 BeijingTeams class 4
Silver medal – second place2010 GwangjuTeams class 4
Bronze medal – third place2014 BeijingSingles class 4
Bronze medal – third place2010 GwangjuSingles class 4

Borislava Perić-Ranković (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислава Перић-Ранковић; born 16 June 1972) is a disabled Serbian table tennis player.[1] She represented Serbia at the 2008,[2] 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in table tennis, winning one gold and three silver medals.[3] She competes in the disability class 4. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the individual class 4 competition, defeating China's Zhang Miao in the finals.[4] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal.[5]

Life

Perić-Ranković was born in Bečej in 1972. She had a workplace accident in 1994, sustaining spinal cord injuries. She has used a wheelchair ever since. She began training table tennis in 2002, and moved to Novi Sad in 2006 to train with trainer Zlatko Kesler.[6]

She has won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 2010 and 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships.[1]

In 2015, Perić-Ranković received ITTF Star Award for female para table tennis player of the year.[7]

Parliamentarian

In the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) reserved many of the lead positions on its Together We Can Do Everything electoral list for non-party cultural figures and academics.[8] Perić-Ranković was given the seventh position on the list; this was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 250 mandates.[9]

She is a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction and a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society.[10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
  2. ↑ The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Borislava Peric-Rankovic - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  4. ↑ "POI: Borislava zlatna u Riju, Nada bronzana!" (in Serbian). N1. 12 September 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Table Tennis PERIC RANKOVIC Borislava - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". .. Archived from the original on 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  6. ↑ "Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe". Top Srbija. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars". ITTF. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "OVAKO VUČIĆ KROJI VRH IZBORNE LISTE SNS", Blic, 14 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  9. ↑ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  10. ↑ BORISLAVA PERIC - RANKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2023.
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