Božo Grkinić
Personal information | |
---|---|
National team | ![]() |
Born | Sveti Juraj, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) | 17 November 1913
Died | 3 February 1996 Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) | (aged 82)
Sport | |
Sport | Water polo Basketball |
Updated on 10 June 2017. |
Božo Grkinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Божо Гркинић; November 17, 1913 – February 3, 1996) was Yugoslav water polo and basketball player and coach. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national water polo team and Yugoslavia national basketball team.
Water polo career[]
Božo Grkinić | |||
---|---|---|---|
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
1948–1949 | Partizan | ||
1949–195? | Mornar | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | ||
1948 | Yugoslavia |
Grkinić competed with the national water polo team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[1] He was given the honour to carry the national flag of Yugoslavia at the opening ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics, becoming the sixth water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.[2]
Basketball career[]
Career information | |
---|---|
Playing career | 1938–? |
Coaching career | 1945–1946 |
Career history | |
As coach: | |
1945–1946 | Partizan |
Grkinić was the first head coach of Partizan who coached them for two seasons, in 1945 and 1946 Yugoslav Basketball League.
As a player for the national basketball team Grkinić participated in 1947 European Championship[3] in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
See also[]
- Yugoslavia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of KK Partizan head coaches
- Nebojša Popović
References[]
- ^ "Profile of Božo Grkinic". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ Yugoslavia. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 25 October 2011.
- ^ Božo Grkinić at 1947 European Championship, FIBA
External links[]
- Božo Grkinić at FIBA
- Božo Grkinić at Olympics.com
- Božo Grkinić at the Croatian Olympic Committee (in Croatian)
- Božo Grkinić at Olympedia
- 1913 births
- 1996 deaths
- Yugoslav men's basketball players
- Yugoslav basketball coaches
- Yugoslav male water polo players
- Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic water polo players of Yugoslavia
- Croatian water polo coaches
- People from Senj
- KK Partizan coaches
- Yugoslav water polo biography stubs
- European basketball biography stubs