Joško Vlašić
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| Nationality | Croatian | |||||||||||||||
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22 July 1956 Split, FPR Yugoslavia |
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| Residence | Split, Croatia | |||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | Decathlon | |||||||||||||||
| Club | ASK Split | |||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | Blanka Vlašić | |||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 7659 pts (1983, NR) | |||||||||||||||
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Joško Vlašić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈjɔʃkɔ ˈʋlaʃitɕ]) (born 22 July 1956) is a Croatian athletics coach and a former decathlete who represented Yugoslavia. Vlašić's greatest competitive success was winning the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, but he is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić, a world champion high jumper.
Joško Vlašić was born in 1956 in Split. He started with athletics in ASK Split, a local club. His coach Ante Tešija decided Vlašić would do well in decathlon, describing him as "tall and skinny". According to Tešija, Vlašić was initially very skeptical regarding his aptitude for the sport, but he was tenacious, loved to train, and the results came quickly.
In the following years, Vlašić became the leading Yugoslav decathlete, winning five consecutive national championships, from 1979 to 1983. He won two decathlon medals in consecutive Mediterranean Games: bronze in 1979, and gold in 1983. His first child, Blanka Vlašić (born 1983), was named after Casablanca, the host city of the 1983 Games. Vlašić also competed in the 1983 World Championships, placing 16th.
Vlašić's decathlon personal best of 7659 points, set in Izmir in June 1983, is still the Croatian record; as of 2016[update], no other Croatian athlete has come within 600 points of his mark.
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