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History
Croatia made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1992 after gaining independence from Yugoslavia and has competed ever since. The nation sends a large delegation of athletes, typically over 80 compete. Croatia competes in a variety of sports though sends sizable groups in athletics, handball, sailing, shooting and water polo.
Croatia has won medals at every Summer Olympics it has participated in and has won a total of 33 in 12 sports. Their most successful sports include athletics (5), rowing (5) and aquatics (4 with 1 in swimming and 3 in water polo). They also medal in other team sports including three in handball and one in basketball. Croatia’s most successful summer athlete is handball player Venio Losert whom won two golds (1996 and 2004) and one bronze (2012) medals with the men’s handball team.
Qualified Quotas
Athletics
Men’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Shot Put | Filip Mihaljevic | Filip Mihaljevic |
Women’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s Marathon | Bojana Bjeljac | Bojana Bjeljac |
Matea Parlov Kostro | ||
Women’s Discus Throw | Sandra Perkovic | Sandra Perkovic |
Women’s Javelin Throw | Sara Kolak | Sara Kolak |
Canoeing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s C1 Slalom | Matija Marinic | Matija Marinic |
Gymnastics
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Artistic Individual Events | Tin Srbic | Tin Srbic |
Women’s Artistic Individual Events | Ana Derek | Ana Derek |
Rowing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Single Sculls | Damir Martin | Damir Martin |
Men’s Coxless Pair | Martin Sinkovic Valent Sinkovic |
Martin Sinkovic Valent Sinkovic |
Sailing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s Laser | Tonci Stipanovic | Tonci Stipanovic |
Women’s Laser Radial | Elena Vorobeva | Elena Vorobeva |
Men’s 49er | Sime Fantela Mihovil Fantela |
Sime Fantela Mihovil Fantela |
Shooting
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s 10m Air Rifle | Petar Gorsa | Petar Gorsa |
Miran Maricic | Miran Maricic | |
Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Snjezana Pejcic | Snjezana Pejcic |
Men’s Trap | Josip Glasnovic | Josip Glasnovic |
Swimming
Men’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s 800m Freestyle | Franko Grgic | |
Men’s 1500m Freestyle | Franko Grgic | Franko Grigic |
Marin Mogic | Marin Mogic |
Table Tennis
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s Singles | From Team Quota | Tomislav Pucar |
From Team Quota | Andrej Gacina | |
Men’s Team | Tomislav Pucar Andrej Gacina Frane Kojic Filip Zeljko |
Tomislav Pucar Andrej Gacina Frane Kojic |
Taekwondo
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s -80kg | Toni Kanaet | Toni Kanaet |
Women’s -49kg | Kristina Tomic | Kristina Tomic |
Women’s -67kg | Matea Jelic | Matea Jelic |
Water Polo
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s Tournament | Andro Buslje Ante Vukicevic Javier Garcia Josip Vrlic Loren Fatovic Lovre Milos Luka Bukic Luka Loncar Marko Bijac Marko Mecan Maro Jokovic Tino Buric Toni Popadic |