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Velimir Kljaić

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Velimir Kljaić
Kljaić with Croatia during the 1996 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameVelimir Kljaić
NationalityCroatian
Born(1946-02-10)10 February 1946
Šibenik, FPR Yugoslavia
Died12 August 2010(2010-08-12) (aged 64)
Zagreb, Croatia
Sport
SportHandball
Youth career
YearsTeam
–RK Medveščak Zagreb
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
1963–1976RK Medveščak Zagreb
1976–1980Klagenfurt
Teams managed
1980–1984RK Medveščak Zagreb
1984–1988TuSpo Nürnberg
1988–1992SG Wallau-Massenheim
1992–1994TV Grosswallstadt
1994–1996TUSEM Essen
1996Croatia
1996–1998SG Wallau-Massenheim
1998–1999Croatia
1998–1999Badel 1862 Zagreb
2000–2001Egypt
2001–2002Kuwait
2004–2005GWD Minden
2005–2006VfL Gummersbach
2006RK Lokomotiva Zagreb
2007–2008TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
Medal record
Men's handball
Head Coach for  Croatia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaTeam
Head Coach for  Egypt
African Championship
Gold medal – first place2000 Algeria
Head Coach for  Kuwait
Asian Championship
Gold medal – first place2002 Iran

Velimir Kljaić (10 February 1946 – 12 August 2010) was a Croatian handball player and coach.[1]

Career

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As a player Kljaić played with RK Medveščak Zagreb and Klagenfurt. As a coach, he won two Croatian championships with RK Zagreb and one Cup. In Germany he was the Coach of the Year in 1992, in which he won German championship and the Cup with SG Wallau-Massenheim.[1]

As head coach of Croatia men's team he won the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

He was also head coach of the national teams of Egypt and Kuwait.[1]

Personal life

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Kljaić was born in the village of Danilo Gornje, administrative part of Šibenik. He was the father of the former handballer Nenad Kljaić who was a part of Croatia's squad in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[3]

Velimir Kljaić died on 12 August 2010 of lung cancer in Zagreb.[4] He was buried five days after his death in Zagreb.[5]

Honours

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Player

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Medveščak

Manager

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Medveščak
Wallau-Massenheim
Croatia
Zagreb
Egypt
Kuwait
Gummersbach

Individual

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Strahija, Ivana (12 August 2010). "Preminuo Velimir Kljaić". sportnet.rtl.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "VIDEO: Umro tvorac prvog hrvatskog olimpijskog zlata Velimir Kljaić". Jutarnji list. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Vukelić, Zvonimir (13 August 2010). "Nenad Kljaić: I tata bi tako htio..." Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "Nakon teške bolesti umro rukometni velikan Velimir Kljaić". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 12 August 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Posljednjim pljeskom ispraćen Velimir Kljaić (FOTOGALERIJA)". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 17 August 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
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