Velimir Valenta (left) with
Duje Bonačić at the 1952 Olympic Games
Velimir Valenta (born April 21, 1929 in Klis , † November 27, 2004 in Mendrisio ) was a Yugoslav rower .
Valenta started for the HVK Gusar club from Split. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , the Yugoslav four-man without a helmsman won the second heat and the second semi-finals with Duje Bonačić , Velimir Valenta, Mate Trojanović and Petar Šegvić . In the final, the Yugoslavs won 2.9 seconds ahead of the four from France and received the only Olympic gold medal for Yugoslav rowers at all.
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1904: Stockhoff , Erker , Dietz , Nasse (USA) | 1908: Cudmore , Gillan , Mackinnon , Somers-Smith (GBR) | 1924: Eley , MacNabb , Morrison , Sanders (GBR) | 1928: Lander , Warriner , Beesly , Bevan (GBR) | 1932: Badcock , Edwards , Beresford , George (GBR) | 1936: Eckstein , Rome , Karl , Menne (GER) | 1948: Moioli , Morille , Invernizzi , Faggi (ITA) | 1952: Bonačić , Valenta , Trojanović , Šegvić (YUG) | 1956: MacKinnon , Loomer , D'Hondt , Arnold (CAN) | 1960: Ayrault , Nash , Sayre , Wailes (USA) | 1964: Hansen , Hasløv , Petersen , Helmudt (DEN) | 1968, 1972: Forberger , Rühle , Grahn , Schubert (GDR) | 1976: Brietzke , Decker , Semmler , Mager (GDR) | 1980: Thiele , Decker , Semmler , Brietzke (GDR) | 1984: O'Connell , O'Brien , Robertson , Trask (NZL) | 1988: Schröder , Greiner , Brudel , Förster (GDR) | 1992: Cooper , Green , McKay , Tomkins (AUS) | 1996: Green , Ginn , Tomkins , McKay (AUS) | 2000: Cracknell , Redgrave , Foster , Pinsent (GBR) | 2004: Williams , Cracknell , Coode , Pinsent (GBR) | 2008: James , Reed , Triggs Hodge , Williams (GBR) | 2012: Gregory , Reed , James , Triggs Hodge (GBR) | 2016: Gregory , Louloudis , Nash , Sbihi (GBR)
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