Andro Bušlje (born 4 January 1986) is a Croatian

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player who competed in the

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and

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the Croatian team that won the gold medal. He is right-handed and plays the center defender position. From 2016 to 2019 he played for Greek powerhouse

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, with whom he won the

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. He started playing water polo at the age of 12, and he made his national team debut in 2005. Bušlje is one of the top defenders in the world. Bušlje is currently the captain of the Croatia national team, with whom he has become Olympic gold medalist, 2 times World Champion and European Champion. He is the only water polo player in the world to have won 7 FINA World Championship medals (2 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze), an all-time record as of 2017 Bušlje was given the honour to carry the national flag of Croatia at the

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of the

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, becoming the 29th water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

Honours

Club

Jug Dubrovnik *

LEN Champions League The LEN Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A change of na ...

: 2005–06 ;''runners-up'': 2006–07, 2007–08,

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: 2006 * Croatian Championship: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13 * Croatian Cup: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 *

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: 2008–09 Olympiacos *

: 2017–18 ;''runners-up'': 2018–19 *

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: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22 *

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: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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: 2018 Mladost * Croatian Championship: 2020–21 * Croatian Cup: 2020–21

Awards

*Member of the World Team by ''total-waterpolo'' 2017 * Croatian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2018 with Olympiacos *Fifth Best European Player in the World by

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2019 *Best Croatian Defender of the Year: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021

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* 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Dubrovnik Croatian male water polo players Water polo centre backs Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Croatia in water polo Olympic silver medalists for Croatia in water polo World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in water polo Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia Olympiacos Water Polo Club players Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate water polo players Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Croatia-Olympic-medalist-stub

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Club

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