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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 | Matea Parlov Kostro | |
Women’s High Jump | Ana Simic | |
Women’s Discus Throw | Sandra Perkovic | Sandra Perkovic |
Marija Tolj | ||
Women’s Javelin Throw | Sara Kolak | Sara Kolak |
Boxing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Light Heavyweight | Luka Plantic | Luka Plantic |
Women’s Featherweight | Nikolina Cacic | Nikolina Cacic |
Canoeing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s C1 Slalom | Matija Marinic | Matija Marinic |
Women’s K1 200m | Eligible to Compete | Anamaria Govorcinovic |
Women’s K1 500m | Anamaria Govorcinovic | Anamaria Govorcinovic |
Women’s C1 200m | Vanesa Tot | Vanesa Tot |
Cycling
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Road Race | Qualified Via Rankings | Josip Rumac |
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 |
Judo
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s -70kg | Barbara Matic | Barbara Matic |
Women’s -78kg | Karla Prodan | Karla Prodan |
Women’s +78kg | Ivana Maranic | Ivana Maranic |
Karate
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s +75kg | Ivan Kvesic | Ivan Kvesic |
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 |
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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 |
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Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Double Starter | Petar Gorsa |
Double Starter | Miran Maricic | |
Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Snjezana Pejcic | Snjezana Pejcic |
Men’s 10m Air Rifle | Petar Gorsa | Petar Gorsa |
Miran Maricic | Miran Maricic | |
Women’s 10m Air Rifle | Double Starter | Snjezana Pejcic |
Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle | Eligible to Compete | |
Men’s Trap | Josip Glasnovic | Josip Glasnovic |
Swimming
Men’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Men’s -80kg | Toni Kanaet | Toni Kanaet |
Men’s +80kg | Ivan Sapina | Ivan Sapina |
Women’s -49kg | Kristina Tomic | Kristina Tomic |
Women’s -67kg | Matea Jelic | Matea Jelic |
Tennis
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Singles | Marin Cilic | |
Women’s Singles | Donna Vekic | |
Men’s Doubles | Nikola Mektic Mate Pavic |
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Marin Cilic Ivan Dodig |
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Women’s Doubles | Darija Jurak Donna Vekic |
Water Polo
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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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 |
Marko Bijac Luka Bukic Andro Buslje Loren Fatovic Javier Garcia Maro Jokovic Luka Loncar Marko Macan Lovre Milos Paulo Obradovic Josip Vrlic Ante Vukicevic Ivan Marcelic* |
* Reserve Athlete
Wrestling
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Greco-Roman -77kg | Bozo Starcevic | Bozo Starcevic |
Men’s Greco-Roman -87kg | Ivan Huklek | Ivan Huklek |