Svetlana Kitić ( sr-cyrl, Светлана Китић, born 19 June 1960) is a
Bosnian Serb
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retired professional
handball
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player who competed at the
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
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and
1984 Summer Olympics
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for
Yugoslavia
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, and was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in the early 2000s. In 2010, she was voted the best female handball player ever by the
IHF.
Biography
Kitić was born in
Tuzla
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Tuzla is the economic, cultural, ed ...
, later in her career she returned to
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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after the
war
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, and simultaneously coached and played for
Sarajevo
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based handball club Željezničar and later for Jedinstvo, club from her hometown
Tuzla
Tuzla (, ) is the third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inhabitants.
Tuzla is the economic, cultural, ed ...
and where she started professional career in handball as 16-year-old girl. Moreover, she played together with her eldest daughter Mara Bogunović on Jedinstvo's first team. In 2002, she entered Bosnian women's national handball team which took part in qualifications for
2003 World Championship in Zagreb. Bosnia with Kitić reached the barrage but failed to qualify. After that Kitić took the role of Director of Bosnian women's national handball team and served between 2006 and 2008.
She last played for Radnički in Belgrade, Serbia.
In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 29 goals. Four years later she won the gold medal as member of the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 22 goals. In all her representative career she played 202 matches and scored the incredible number of 911 goals. She was voted
World Player of the Year 1988 by the
International Handball Federation
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.
Awards
She won the Oscar Of Popularity for the year 2010 in Serbia.
Personal life
At the age of 19, Kitić married a former Bosnian football player
Blaž Slišković
Blaž "Baka" Slišković (; born 30 May 1959) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.
As a player, Slišković was capped 26 times for Yugoslavia in th ...
, they divorced after four months. She later married handball player Dragan Dašić in 1982, but divorced him after four years of marriage. In 1988, she married manager Goran Bogunović with whom she has a daughter Mara, they split in 1990. Kitić is a mother of three adult children. She resides in Belgrade with her family.
"Pulsonline: Svetlana Ceca Kitić"
Pulsonline.rs, 9 juli 2017.
Honours
Player
Radnički Belgrade
*Yugoslav Women's Handball Championship: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
*Yugoslav Women's Handball Cup: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992
*Women's EHF Champions League
The Women's EHF Champions League is the competition for the top women's handball clubs in Europe, organised annually by the European Handball Federation (EHF). It is the most prestigious tournament for clubs, with the champions of Europe's top na ...
: 1975–76, 1979–80, 1983–84
*Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup
The Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe that won their national cup, and took place every year from 1976 to 2016 (until 1993 organized by IHF instead of EHF). From the 2016–17 season, th ...
: 1985–86, 1990–91, 1990–91, 1991–92
Yugoslavia Youth
*IHF Women's Junior World Championship
The IHF Women's Junior World Championship is the official competition for women's national handball teams under-20, has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1977. It takes place every two years in even years.
Tournaments
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: 1977
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, third-place 1979
Yugoslavia
*Summer Olympics
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: runner-up 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
, 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
*IHF World Women's Handball Championship
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: runner-up 1990
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*Mediterranean Games
The Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event organised by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM). It is held every four years among athletes from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in Africa, Asia and Europe. The fir ...
: 1979
References
External links
profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitic, Svetlana
1960 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tuzla
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina sports executives and administrators
Yugoslav female handball players
Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players of Yugoslavia
Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia
Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
Parovi
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball