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Sport

Main article: Sport in Croatia

Sports popular in Croatia include association football, tennis, basketball, waterpolo and handball. The Croatian national football team finished third in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Davor Šuker won the Golden Boot for top goal scorer. The country failed in its joint bid with Hungary to co-host the 2012 European Championships. The two main teams in Croatia are NK Dinamo Zagreb with between 33% and 36% of the population supporting it and HNK Hajduk Split with about 25%.

The national basketball team finished third at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, second at the 1992 Summer Olympics and third at EuroBasket 1993 and 1995. Croatian basketball clubs were 5 times European Champions, KK Split three times and KK Cibona two times. Third most famous basketball club is KK Zadar.

Croatian national handball team were World Champions and two time Olympics Winers in 1996. and 2004. Ivano Balić is considered to be the best handball player in the world. RK Zagreb was two time European Champion and RK Bjelovar one time.

Croatian national water polo team are current World Champions. Mladost was seven times Europen Champions and LEN awarded the club with the title Best Club of the 20th Century. Jug and Jadran were both three times winners. Croatian Davis Cup team won the tournament in 2005.

Tennis player Goran Ivanišević is one of the country's most recognisable sportsmen, and won the 2001 men's singles title at Wimbledon. Janica Kostelić in skiing, Blanka Vlašić in athletics, Duje Draganja, Sanja Jovanović and Đurđica Bjedov in swimming, Dražen Petrović, Krešimir Ćosić, Toni Kukoč and Dino Rađa in basketball, Željko Mavrović and Mate Parlov in boxing, Branko Cikatić and Mirko Filipović known as Cro Cop in Mixed martial arts, Tamara Boroš in table tennis are one of the most famous athletes.

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See also

Hvar Island
Hvar Island

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References

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  2. ^ Važniji datumi iz povijesti saborovanja. Hrvatski Sabor. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  3. ^ Dinara -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering. SummitPost. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Croatia. CIA World Factbook (2008-03-06). Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
  5. ^ "Croatia marks Storm anniversary", BBC News, 2005-08-05. Retrieved on 2008-04-23. 
  6. ^ Croatia: Operation "Storm" - still no justice ten years on. Amnesty International (2005-08-04). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
  7. ^ Milan Babic - Initial Indictment. ICTY. Retrieved on 2007-06-12.
  8. ^ GDP per capita in PPS. Eurostat. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
  9. ^ Real GDP growth rate. Eurostat. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  10. ^ Statistical Information 2007. Republic of Croatia Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
  11. ^ Unemployment rate – total. Eurostat. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
  12. ^ Bulletin 134. Croatian National Bank (February 2008). Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  13. ^ a b c UNWTO World Tourism Barometer (October 2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.

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Further reading

  • Branka Magaš. "Croatia Through History: The Making of a Modern European State" Saqi. November 2007, 680pp.
  • Agičić et al., Povijest i zemljopis Hrvatske, priručnik za hrvatske manjinske škole (History and Geography of Croatia, a handbook for Croatian minority schools), Biblioteka Geographica Croatica, 292 pages, Zagreb:2000 (ISBN 953-6235-40-4) (Croatian)
  • Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics Cornell University Press, 1984.
  • Mirjana Kasapovic (ur.), Hrvatska politika 1990.-2000. Zagreb: Hrvatska politologija 2001.
  • Pavol Demes and Joerg Forbrig (eds.), Reclaiming Democracy: Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe. German Marshall Fund, 2007. ISBN 978-80-969639-0-4
  • Sharon Fisher, Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 ISBN 1 4039 7286 9

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