Božo Grkinić
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| National team |  Yugoslavia |
| Born | 17 November 1913 Sveti Juraj, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia |
| 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
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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
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- ↑ Yugoslavia. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 25 October 2011.
- ↑ Božo Grkinić at 1947 European Championship, FIBA
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