Zoran Kosanović

Zoran Zoki Kosanović (born January 16, 1956 , † February 4, 1998 in Canada ) was a Yugoslav and Canadian table tennis player . With the Yugoslav team he was European champion in 1976 .

Yugoslavia

Kosanović represented Yugoslavia at all five world championships from 1973 to 1981. He was runner- up with the team in 1975 . A year later he became European champion with the team in Prague. In doubles with Milivoj Karakašević he reached the semi-finals at the 1978 European Championship.

At the Balkan Championships he won 11 titles, namely from 1974 to 1978 five times in a row with the team, in 1976, 1977 and 1978 in singles, in 1977 and 1978 in doubles and in 1977 in mixed. From 1975 to 1979 he was five times Yugoslav champion. His best placement in the ITTF world rankings was 7th.

Canada

He married in Canada in September 1979 and has lived in Toronto ever since. Here he showed himself to be superior in numerous Canadian and North American tournaments. In 1981 he won the North American Championship and in 1982 the US Open. At the 1983 World Cup in Tokyo, he competed for Canada.

In 1998 Kosanović died of a heart attack during a soccer game in which he was an active participant.

Private

Kosanović was married to the Canadian Darinka, with whom he had a daughter and a son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1978	Nis	YUG	gold	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1977	Brasov	ROU	gold	gold	gold	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1976	Samsun	DOOR	gold	silver		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1975	Sofia	BUL				1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1974	Athens	GRE		silver		1
CAN	Commonwealth Championship	1982	Bombay	IND	silver	silver	silver
YUG	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG		Semifinals
YUG	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH				1
YUG	Mediterranean Games	1979	Hvar Split	YUG				1
CAN	North America Championship	1981	Princetown	0	gold
CAN	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	Agony	last 64	no participants	41
YUG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 128	last 32	last 32	7th
YUG	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	last 64	last 16	9
YUG	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 64	no participants	8th
YUG	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 128	last 64	Agony	2
YUG	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 128	last 16	Agony
CAN	World cup	1981	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	10

swell

• Manfred Schäfer: The man who had his birthday, DTS magazine , 1981/3 page 9
• Tim Boggan : In Memoriam - ZORAN KOSANOVIC (1956-1998) , detailed description of the time in Canada ( Memento of July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1978 - Complete Results ( Memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Zoran Kosanović in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
3. ^ Zoran Kosanović Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 10, 2011)