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29 November 1938 (1938-11-29) (age 86) Zagreb, Sava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zlatko Šimenc (born 29 November 1938) is a retired Croatian water polo player and coach (1969-1975) of Slovenian origin. He was part of the Yugoslav teams that won a silver medal at the 1964 Olympics and placed fourth in 1960. He won three more medals at the European championships in 1958–1966.
Šimenc's parents moved from Slovenia to Croatia before he was born. They had three sons and one daughter, with Zlatko being the youngest child. He took up swimming aged 11, and in his twenties changed to water polo and handball. He trained as a water polo defender in the summer and as a handball striker in the winter, and won national titles in both sports with his club Mladost. Between 1955 and 1975 he played 101 water polo and 24 handball matches for the national Yugoslav teams.
In 1958, Šimenc enrolled to study law, but next year changed to the newly established in Zagreb institute of physical education, and graduated in 1966. He later earned a master's degree in social sciences and defended a PhD in kinesiology. Since 1966 until retirement he worked at the Department of Team Sports of the University of Zagreb, and published ca. 60 scientific papers and books on handball and water polo. In parallel he served as a sports official at the Yugoslav (1980–82) and Croatian (1992–96) water polo federations and was a member of the Croatian Olympic Committee (1991–95). His son Dubravko also became an Olympic medalist in water polo, while his daughter Iva is a coach and former competitor in synchronized swimming.
See also
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zlatko Šimenc". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ ŽIVLJENJEPISI SLOVENCEV V HRVAŠKEM ŠPORTU. slovenci-zagreb.hr (2014). p. 248
External links
- Zlatko Šimenc at World Aquatics
- Zlatko Šimenc at Olympics.com
- Zlatko Šimenc at Olympedia (archive)
- Zlatko Šimenc at the Croatian Olympic Committee (in Croatian) (archived)
- Zlatko Šimenc at Encyclopedia LZMK
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- Croatian male water polo players
- Croatian water polo coaches
- Yugoslav male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players for Yugoslavia
- Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 1963 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in water polo
- University of Zagreb alumni
- Croatian people of Slovenian descent
- Croatian sports executives and administrators