Boško Vuksanović

Boško Vuksanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бошко Вуксановић ; born January 4, 1928 in Kotor , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † April 4, 2011 in Belgrade , Serbia ) was a Yugoslav water polo player and coach who won the silver medal as a player with the national water polo team Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956 as well as the silver medal as coach at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo .

Life

After completing school, Boško Vuksanović initially worked as a locksmith and worked for the state tourism company Centroturist and later studied law .

He also began a sporting career as a water polo player with Mornar Split and Jadran Herceg Novi , with whom he became national champion. At the end of the 1940s he also became a player in the national team and won the bronze medal at the European water polo championship in Vienna in 1950 . At the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 , he also won a bronze medal before winning the silver medal with the national team at the 1954 European Championships in Turin . Most recently, he won another bronze medal with the team as a player at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

After finishing his active career as a player, he became the coach of the national water polo team. With this he first won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade in Sofia in 1961 and in the following year 1962 together with the team of the Soviet Union a silver medal at the European Water Polo Championships in Leipzig . In 1963 he led the team to another gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Naples . His greatest success as coach of the Yugoslav national water polo team he achieved at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo when he won the silver medal as coach of the "blue dolphins" (Plavih Delfina).

Later he worked as a trainer in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as with Jadran Herceg Novi and with Roter Stern Belgrade .

Web links and sources

• Preminuo Boško Vuksanović (b92.net), April 4, 2011