Jasna Rather born Jasna Fazlić, born December 20, 1970 in

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is former

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player who played for

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and then for

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, competing on four

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: in Seoul

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, Barcelona

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, Sydney

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, and Athens

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respectively.

Olympics participation

In 1988 she won the bronze medal for Yugoslavia in the women's doubles together with

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. Four years later she competed as an

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. In 2000 and 2004 she participated for the United States.

Personal life

Jasna lived in

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for the most of her childhood and youth. From 1992 to 1997 she was married to

Ilija Lupulesku Ilija Lupulesku ( sr-cyr, Илија Лупулеску; born October 30, 1967) is a former Serbian and later American table tennis player who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988, 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992, 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996, 2000 ...

. After separating from Lupulesku in 1996, she played in Japan for a short while, then moved to the United States. After her divorce she legally changed her name to Reed. Jasna got married on August 20, 2009 to William H. Rather IV, and changed her last name to Rather. Jasna and William have one daughter, Izabel Rather, who was born on December 18, 2011.

Coaching

As of 2006, she is the Head Table Tennis Coach at

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. Since the inception of the table tennis program at Texas Wesleyan University, the team has brought back to Texas 69 collegiate national titles in team, singles and doubles events.

Table Tennis Career

*1988, 1992, 2000, 2004 Olympian *1988 Bronze Olympic Medal Seoul Korea *1988 and 1992 European Champion *2003 and 2005 US women's singles champion Jasna was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame December 2011

References

External links

playing recordFort Worth Weekly article on Reed and Texas Wesleyan table tennis
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