Tomislav Smoljanović
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15 July 1977 Split, Croatia |
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| Residence | Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | School of Medicine, University of Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men's rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Eights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HVK Gusar HAVK Mladost |
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| Retired | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tomislav Smoljanović (born 15 July 1977) is a Croatian medical scientist, physician, and a retired rower.
Smoljanović won bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2001 World Championships as a member of the national eights team. As a physician, he gained public prominence in 2011 for his research that uncovered the harmful side effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 therapy.
Smoljanović was born in Split in 1977. He took up rowing in 1989, but had to leave it due to bad grades in school, and returned to the sport only in 1993. Since 1994, as a member of HVK Gusar rowing club, he competed in the coxed pairs with Damir Vučičić, winning world junior silver medal in 1995. In 1998 Smoljanović won silver in the coxed fours in the World University Rowing Championships, teamed with Vučičić, Nikša Skelin and Oliver Martinov. Smoljanović moved from HVK Gusar to Zagreb-based HAVK Mladost rowing club in 1999, after enrolling in the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb.
Smoljanović won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tihomir Franković and Igor Francetić, with Silvijo Petriško as coxswain. In the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Smoljanović was a member of a slightly changed national eights team – with Oliver Martinov and Damir Vučičić instead of Franković and Francetić – which won a silver medal.
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