Hrvoje Kačić

Kačić in 1956
Medal record
Men’s Waterpolo
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place1956 MelbourneTeam Competition
European Championship
Silver medal – second place1958 BudapestTeam Competition
Bronze medal – third place1950 ViennaTeam Competition
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place1959 BeirutTeam Competition

Hrvoje Kačić (13 January 1932 – 14 February 2023) was a Croatian water polo player, legal scholar and politician.

Biography

Kačić was born in Dubrovnik on 13 January 1932.[1] At the age of 18, Kačić played for the Yugoslavia national water polo team at the 1950 European Water Polo Championship at which the team won bronze.[2] During the 1950s he became out of favour with Yugoslavia's communist regime and had his passport confiscated on three occasions.[2] He was jailed by the regime in 1952 which prevented him from joining the national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2] He was also expelled from university.

Kačić competed with the national team at the 1956 Summer Olympics, during which his friend and teammate Ivo Štakula defected to Australia.[2] In 1957, he was awarded the Sportske novosti Croatian Sportsman of the Year. At the 1959 Mediterranean Games he won a gold medal.[1] On the club level he was a long-time member of Croatian waterpolo club Jug from Dubrovnik, multiple national champion.

In 1956 he finished a degree in law.[3] He later finished a doctorate in law in 1965 at the University of Zagreb, specializing in maritime law.[4] Kačić also wrote about history.[5] He has collaborated with Ivo Pilar Institute of History.[6]

Kačić was elected to the Croatian Parliament for the first time in the country's first democratic elections in 1990 as an independent candidate.[7] From 1994 to 2001 he was president of the State Commission for Borders of the Republic of Croatia.[7]

In 1994 he received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award.[8] He has served on the committee which gives out the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport.[9] Kačić still actively supported Croatian water polo, retaining a position in the Croatian Water Polo Federation and supporting the national team.[10]

Kačić died on 14 February 2023, at the age of 91.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Gizdić, Jurica (2016). Hrvatski olimpijci i odličnici (PDF) (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee. p. 263. ISBN 978-953-7912-05-5. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Olimpijske legende: Hrvoje Kačić". Olimp (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee (15). June 2005. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Reprinted and new edition of Hrvoje Kačić's U službi domovine
  4. ↑ Granting recognition
  5. ↑ Partisans killed Croatian anti-fascists Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hrvoje Kačić, Glas Koncila
  6. ↑ News in short Archived 30 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Croatian Radiotelevision
  7. 1 2 "Hrvoje Kačić". matica.hr (in Croatian). Matica hrvatska. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Matija Ljubek Award
  9. ↑ Recipients of the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport in 2002
  10. ↑ "Vaterpoliste dočekalo 30.000 ljudi" [Waterpolo players met by 30,000]. Nacional (in Croatian). 3 April 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "Umro srebrni hrvatski olimpijac i jedan od najvećih igrača Juga u povijesti". Index.hr. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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