The Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian, Croatian and

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: Olimpijski komitet Bosne i Hercegovine;

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in the

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. The committee organizes Bosnia's representatives at the

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. Members of the committee are 38 sports federations, which elect the Executive Council composed of the president and twelve members.

History

The Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded on June 4, 1992. It grew out of the ''ZOI '84'' organization, organizers of the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

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. The committee maintains the ''Museum of the XIV Winter Olympiad''. The first president of the committee was

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, with Izudin Filipović being the first secretary general. It became a full IOC and

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member in 1993. Shortly after its foundation, the committee drafted the first athletes to participate under the Bosnian flag in the Olympic games for the

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List of presidents

Executive committee

*President: Milanko Mučibabić *Vice Presidents:

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Izet Rađo Izet is a Bosnian variant of the Turkish given name ''Izzet'' from Arabiعزة meaning honor, greatness. Alternatively, it may refer to the first sighting of vegetation after volcanic eruptions. It may refer to: *Izet Arslanović (born 1973), Bos ...

* Members:

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, Nihad Selimović, Mirsad Ćatić, Slobodan Grahovac, Edin Krupalija, Ivan Brkić, Kornelija Leko, Goran Bošnjak, Branislav Crnogorac, Nada Kujundžić

Member federations

National Federations of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports. They are responsible for training, competition and development of their sports. There are currently 24 Olympic Summer and 6 Winter Sport Federations and eight Non-Olympic Sports Federations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Olympic Sport federations

Non-Olympic Sport federations

External links

Official website

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