Matija Ljubek
Croatian sprint canoeist
Matija Ljubek (Croatian pronunciation: [ʎǔbek] ; 22 November 1953 – 11 October 2000) was a Croatian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s and 1980s and later became a sports official.[1]
Born in Belišće , Osijek-Baranja , Ljubek competed in four Summer Olympics where he won four medals. This included two golds (C-1 1000 m: 1976 , C-2 500 m: 1984 with Mirko Nišović ), one silver (C-2 1000 m: 1984 with Mirko Nišović ), and one bronze (C-1 500 m: 1976). His trainer was Laszlo Hingl . He also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (C-1 1000 m: 1978 , C-2 500 m: 1982 , 1983 ; C-2 10000 m: 1985 ), three silvers (C-1 10000 m: 1981 , C-2 1000 m: 1982, 1985), and three bronzes (C-1 10000 m: 1975 , 1978; C-2 1000 m: 1983).
In 1976 he was awarded a Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia .
Ljubek later became vice-president of the Croatian Olympic Committee and served as chef de mission for the Croatian Olympic team .
Ljubek died in 2000 when he was shot by an estranged brother-in-law while trying to defend his mother in Valpovo , Osijek-Baranja, six days after returning from the 2000 Summer Olympics .
Olympic results
References
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com . International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk .
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com . International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk .
Kamber, Raymond , ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF) . CanoeICF.com . International Canoe Federation . pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill ; et al. "Matija Ljubek" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC . Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition . London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 480.
External links
Yugoslav era (1952–90) Since independence (1991–present)
1990s 2000s
Miloš Marković , Matija Ljubek (2000)
Zlatko Šimenc , Slavko Podgorelec (2001)
Žarko Dolinar , Krešimir Ćosić , Dražen Petrović (2002)
Milan Antolković , Vicko Lučić (2003)
Miro Mihovilović , Antun Vrdoljak (2004)
Irislav Dolenec , Vicko Šoljan (2005)
Nikola Jurković , Stjepan Korbar , Veljko Rogošić (2006)
Miroslav Blažević , Ante Pavlović , Žarko Susić (2007)
Ivo Cipci , Željko Mataja , Josip Modrić (2008)
Zdravko Baršnik , Ivan Janjić , Renato Vučetić (2009)
2010s
Josip Čorak , Darko Dujmović , Velimir Kljaić (2010)
Ivan Fattorini , Dragan Milanović , Vinko Tomljanović (2011)
Ivan Ivančić , Marinko Mikulandra , Ratko Rudić (2012)
Jozo Alebić , Erna Hawelka Rađenović , Fredi Kramer (2013)
Vinko Bajrović , Anto Ćavar , Giuseppe Giergia (2014)
Gojko Arneri , Đurđica Bjedov , Janko Goleš (2015)
Ivo Vidović * , Jelica Pavličić-Štefančić , Luciano Sušanj (2016)
Zdenko Zorko , Zdravko Hebel * , Zina Urlić (2017)
Vladimir Janković , Milka Babović , Mate Parlov * (2018)
Zdenko Kobeščak , Duško Antunović * , Zdravko Malić (2019)
2020s * – posthumously