Ivan Ivančić
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December 6, 1937 Grabovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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| Died | August 28, 2014 (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Zagreb, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 282 lb (128 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Yugoslavia
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| Event(s) | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | AK Sloboda Tuzla AK Crvena Zvezda AK Partizan |
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| Retired | 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 20.77 m (1983) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ivan Ivančić (December 6, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a Croatian athletics coach and shot putter who represented Yugoslavia. He was the gold medalist in the 1975 Mediterranean Games, as well as a multiple national champion and record holder. As a coach, Ivančić specialized in the throwing events, and was best known for coaching Sandra Perković, an Olympic and two-time European discus throw champion.
Ivančić was born in 1937 at the village of Grabovica, near Tomislavgrad. He finished elementary school and high school in Tuzla, and graduated from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education at the University of Belgrade.
Ivančić described his entry into athletics as "coincidental": while employed at the Ministry of Transportation in Belgrade, he occasionally competed in shot put at workers' sports games, and good results prompted him to take up athletics more seriously. He joined the AK Crvena Zvezda athletics club, where he spent a total of 24 years, interrupted by a four-year spell with AK Partizan, a rival Belgrade club. He worked as a school teacher for 35 years.
Ivančić became the top Yugoslav shot putter in the early to mid-1970s. He won the Yugoslav championship seven times (1970–1975, 1977) and improved the national record six times. He won a gold medal in shot put in the 1975 Mediterranean Games, bronze in 1979, and two bronze medals in the 1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships. In addition, he represented Yugoslavia in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympic Games and in the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, placing 19th, 16th and 12th respectively. His appearance in the shot put final in Helsinki, at the age of 45 years 244 days, makes Ivančić the oldest ever World Championships competitor in shot put, as well as the oldest ever World Championships finalist in any event.
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