The Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame (slovene: "Hram slavnih slovenskih športnikov") was founded in 2011 by the Society of Slovenian Sports Journalists (Društvo športnih novinarjev Slovenije) and includes best Slovenian athletes of all time from different sport disciplines. This hall will be in function in 2012. At Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year event in December 2011 they inducted the first two Slovenian athletes, Leon Štukelj and Miro Cerar.
For more than a year and half, the Society of Slovenian Sports Journalists was preparing for the foundation of the "Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame". They did this with one goal, to keep Slovenian athletes with great international results alive in our minds. They want to keep all sports equipment connected with this great athletes and save historic sport events from articles of already retired sports journalists and all others.
With this Hall of Fame of Slovenian athletes, the Society wants to invites visitors, students and all fans of sport, to keep Slovenian sport history alive, to allow best conditions for working of All Slovenian Sports Museum.
On 19 December 2012 twenty new inductees were introduced, also the Hall of fame was opened in Stožice Arena. On 28 November class of 2013 was introduced with 28 new athletes. Three athletes were introduced in August 2015, two in August 2016 and December 2017 and three in January 2019.
Inductees
See also
References
- dolenjskilist.si
- ljnovice.com
- "Foto: Slovenija ima Hram športnih junakov" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- "V Hram športnih junakov sprejetih še 28 slovenskih športnikov" (in Slovenian). MMC RTV-SLO. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- "Katanec, Zdovc in Petrovič v Hramu športnih junakov" (in Slovenian). MMC RTV-SLO. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- "Iztok Puc in Rolando Pušnik nova člana Hrama športnih junakov". Delo (in Slovenian). 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- "V Hramu športnih junakov od danes tudi Polona Dornik in Marko Elsner". Delo (in Slovenian). 19 December 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- "V Hram slovenskega športa sprejeti trije smučarji". MMC RTV-SLO (in Slovenian). 30 January 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- Boris Klavora, Vekoslav Skalak, Jože Berc, Alojz Colja, Lucijan Kleva, Jadran Barut, Marko Mandić, Pavao Martić, Zdenko Balaš