Danira Bilić
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Born | Šibenik, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | 22 July 1969|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Croatian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 1985–1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1985– | Elemes Šibenik | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993–1995 | Symel Tenerife | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995–1999 | Croatia Zagreb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danira Bilić (née Nakić; born 22 July 1969) is a retired Croatian basketball player. As part of the Yugoslavian women's team, she won a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She was European basketball's Most Valuable Player three times running, in 1988, 1989 and 1990. In 1991, she was awarded Croatia's highest national recognition for sports, the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport.
Since retiring she has maintained an active involvement in sport, and is currently the Director of the Croatian Heritage Foundation. In 2009 the International Olympic Committee awarded her their "Women in Sports" European trophy.
She is also a politician, being a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
She is wife of former Croatian handball player Zvonimir Bilić.
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Olympic basketball players of Yugoslavia
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Croatian women's basketball players
- Yugoslav women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Croatian Democratic Union politicians
- Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament
- Basketball players from Šibenik
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Croatian sportsperson-politicians
- Croatian women in politics
- Shooting guards
- ŽKK Šibenik players
- Croatian basketball biography stubs
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics