Marijan Žužej (8 February 1934 – 18 December 2011) was a

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water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, 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 water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

player of

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n origin. He was part of the

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

teams that won a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics and placed fourth in 1960. Žužej was born in Maribor to

n parents and lost his father at early age. His mother and stepfather were doctors and fought with Yugoslav partisans during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. Žužej took up swimming and water polo in 1946, and in 1954 was included to the Yugoslav national team that won a bronze medal at European championships. In late 1957 he had a serious car accident. He recovered by the 1960 Olympics, but retired from competitions after that to become a water polo coach and administrator at his club

HAVK Mladost Hrvatski akademski vaterpolo klub Mladost ( en, Croatian Academic Water Polo Club Mladost) or simply HAVK Mladost is a professional water polo club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club was formed in 1946 and it is part of the Mladost sports societ ...

. Besides water polo he worked as an

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in Slovenia and

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* 1934 births 2011 deaths Croatian male water polo players Yugoslav male water polo players Olympic water polo players for Yugoslavia Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Olympic medalists in water polo Sportspeople from Maribor Croatian people of Slovenian descent Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics 20th-century Croatian architects {{Yugoslavia-waterpolo-bio-stub

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