Andrej Glucks (born March 18, 1976, in Zagreb) is a Croatian slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2010s (decade). Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of 11th in the K-1 event in Sydney in 2000. [1] Glucks also competed in slalom in eight World Championships and eight European Championships. [2]
Janica Kostelić is a Croatian former alpine ski racer. She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she won thirty individual races, three overall titles, three slalom titles, and four combined titles. Kostelic's accomplishments in professional skiing have led some commentators, writers, and fellow ski racers to regard her as the greatest female ski racer of all time.
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Ivica Kostelić is a Croatian former alpine ski racer. He specialized in slalom and combined, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines. He is the brother of skiing champion Janica Kostelić. In his career he was coached by his father Ante Kostelić, as well as by Kristian Ghedina and Tomislav Krstičević.
Andrej Panadić is a Croatian football manager and a former defender. Besides Croatia, he has played in Germany, Austria, and Japan.
Michaela Kirchgasser is a retired Austrian alpine ski racer. She raced in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom, and also the combined.
Šárka Strachová is a retired Czech World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Benecko, she specializes in the slalom event. Strachová is the first alpine racer representing the Czech Republic to medal at the Winter Olympics and at the World Championships and just the second Czech alpine skier ever to medal in the Olympics.
Sport in Croatia has significant role in Croatian culture, and many local sports clubs as well as the Croatian national squads enjoy strong followings in the country. The most enduring sport by far in Croatia is football, and is played on amateur and professional levels amongst all age groups across the entire country. Several other major team sports are handball, basketball and water polo, with clubs in all parts of Croatia. Ice hockey is another popular team sport, namely in the Croatian interior. The most popular individual sports in Croatia are tennis, alpine skiing, and swimming, and to some extent table tennis and chess. Various amateur sport games are popular in Croatia, notably picigin.
Zoran Primorac is a retired male table tennis player from Croatia. He is a two-time winner of the World Cup and one of only three table tennis players to have competed at seven Olympic Games. His highest ITTF world ranking was number 2, in 1998.
Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb, commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First Football League, the country's top division. Founded in 1914, the club's only period of success came in the late 1940s and early 1950s before spending most of the following five decades in lower-level leagues.
Andrej Šporn is a former Slovenian alpine skier.
Snow Queen is a World Cup alpine ski race held in the hills of Zagreb, Croatia. The men's and women's slalom races take place on the Medvednica mountaintop Sljeme, just north of Zagreb, usually in early January. The women's race debuted in 2005 and the men's event was added three years later in 2008. The events are held on the red run ski track on Medvednica, starting at an elevation of 985 m (3,232 ft) and ending at 785 m (2,575 ft). Besides the city events in Moscow and Munich, it is the only World Cup event held near a large metropolitan area.
Andrej Kramarić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim and the Croatia national team.
Danko Herceg is a Croatian slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1990 to 2010.
Zlatko Sedlar is a Croatian slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham.
Giuliano Razzoli is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Italy. He specializes in the slalom; he won the Slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Filip Zubčić is a Croatian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in giant slalom. Born in Zagreb, he has competed for Croatia in three Winter Olympics and six World Championships. Zubčić was third in the giant slalom season standings in 2020 and season standings in 2021, and fifth overall.
Sebastian Foss-Solevåg is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in slalom. He is world champion, Olympic bronze medalist and three times national champion in slalom.
Matija Marinić is a Croatian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006. Matija competed in the C1 event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 11th. He is from Zagreb and is coached by 1992 Olympian Stjepan Perestegi.
Gluck is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. The root word means luck in either language. It is a last name found among Ashkenazi Jews and those of German ancestry. However, there is evidence that the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck's surname derives from the Czech word kluk (boy).
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