Boško Vuksanović ( sr-cyrl, Бошко Вуксановић; 4 January 1928 – 4 April 2011) was a
Yugoslavian water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
player who competed in the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
.
He was born in
Kotor
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,
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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(presently Montenegro).
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(in Serbian) Vuksanović was part of the
Yugoslav team which won the silver medal in the 1952 tournament. He played in six matches. Four years later he was a
squad member of the Yugoslav Olympic team in the
1956 tournament but did not play in a match.
He died on 4 April 2011 in
Belgrade
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,
Serbia
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.
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See also
* List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament.
There are fifty-nine male athletes who have ...
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1928 births
2011 deaths
Yugoslav male water polo players
Olympic water polo players of Yugoslavia
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
Olympic medalists in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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