Ivo Trumbić

Croatian water polo player (1935–2021)
Ivo Trumbić
Trumbić in July 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal while coaching the Netherlands national team.
Personal information
Born(1935-04-02)2 April 1935
Split, Littoral Banovina, Yugoslavia
Died12 March 2021(2021-03-12) (aged 85)
Zagreb, Croatia
Height1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight103 kg (227 lb)
Medal record
Men's water polo
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City Team competition
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo Team competition

Ivo Trumbić (2 April 1935 – 12 March 2021) was a Croatian water polo player and Olympic medallist.[1] He later went on to manage. Ivo Trumbić coached the Netherlands to a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, becoming one of the few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches.[2][3]

Career

According to the Netherlands men's national water polo team, Trumbic was not only national coach of Orange in two periods, but he also worked as a coach and technical director for a long time at AC&PC from Amersfoort. The Croat, who conquered Olympic silver (1964) and gold (1968) as a water polo player with the former Yugoslavia.[4]

Trumbic was inducted into the Swimming World's International Hall of Fame in 2015. The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation appointed him a member of merit in 2018, and in 2020 he received the Franjo Bučar Lifetime Achievement Award, Croatia's most important sports prize.[citation needed]

Ivo Trumbic died on 12 March 2021 at the age of 85.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ivo Trumbić". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Ivo Trumbic (CRO/YUG/NED)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  3. ^ 1976, Montreal: Ivo Trumbic and the bronze Dutch
  4. ^ a b "Legendary Dutch water polo coach Trumbic (86) passed away". en24news.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.[permanent dead link]

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Netherlands men's water polo squad1976 Summer Olympics – Bronze medal
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Netherlands men's water polo squad1992 Summer Olympics – 9th place
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