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Olympic family - In Memoriam
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Zagreb, 8 September 2022 - After the Croatian Olympic Committee, the Zagreb City Council, the Croatian Skating Federation, the Croatian Sports Journalists' Association and the Babović family staged an event at the Zagreb Crematorium, where the Milka Babović’s urn was laid in the burial site of the columbarium niche, the doyenne of Croatian sports journalism will finally rest in the peace of the Mirogoj resting place.
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Ljubljana, 8 April 2022 - After Croatia paid tribute to the legendary basketball player and coach Petar Skansi at the commemorative gathering held at Split's Gripe on 7 April, the last farewell of the Croatian sports notable, who passed on 4 April at the age of seventy-eight, was held in Ljubljana on Friday at the city cemetery Žale.
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Ljubljana, June 16, 2020 - At the memorial service, held at the Grand Union Hotel in Ljubljana, family, friends and colleagues from around the world and representatives of the Slovenian state paid their last respects to the late President of the European Olympic Committees (EOCs) Janez Kocijančić.
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It’s been 27 years since the „basketball Mozart“ Dražen Petrović left us
Zagreb, 7 June 2020 - On this day 27 years ago, one of the greatest Croatian athletes of all time, Dražen Petrović, was killed in a car accident on the Nuremberg-Munich highway near the city of Ingolstadt in Germany. “Basketball Mozart,” as Italian journalists once called him, left us at the peak of his sports fame, at the age of 29. -
Dragutin Šurbek, one of the greatest Croatian athletes of all time, laid to rest at the Zagreb’s Cemetary Mirogoj
Zagreb, July 19, 2018 – This Thursday, Sportska Hrvatska, his home city Zagreb, family members and numerous friends, including those from the neighboring countries, said goodbye to the table tennis legend Dragutin Šurbek who died on July 15, 2018 at the age of 72. -
Željko Čajkovski, the oldest Croatian Olympian and Olympic medalist, died at the age of 91
ZAGREB, November 11, 2016 (Croatian news agency HINA) - This morning, the oldest Croatian Olympian and winner of silver medal at the Summer Olympics London 1948 Željko Čajkovski, died in Munich at the age of 91.
