Žarko Dolinar

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Žarko Dolinar (July 3, 1920 – March 9, 2003), Ph.D., a native of Koprivnica, Croatia, captured eight medals in world championship table tennis competitions.

Dolinar is the only world sport champion with a doctoral degree in biology, according to Darko Žubrinić, a Zagreb writer, reported in 1995[1]. He was world doubles champion with his partner, Vilim Harangozo. Dolinar was also head of the Sports Science Committee for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

As well as being university professor in Zagreb and in Basel, he was also honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for saving, together with his brother, about 300 Jews during World War II.[2]

He died at the age of 82 in Basel, Switzerland.

[edit] Quotation

  • "The first thing I have learned in sport is how to lose."

[edit] References

  1. ^ Darko Žubrinić: "Sports in Croatia"
  2. ^ Darko Žubrinić: "'Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac and saving the Jews in Croatia during the WW2"

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