Ivan A. "Ivo" Pavelić (10 February 1908 – 22 February 2011) was a
Croatian swimmer, football player and skier. As a swimmer he competed for
Yugoslavia at the
1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ...
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Pavelić was born in
Zagreb as the son of politician and dentist
Ante Pavelić and experienced his only international swimming tournament at the 1924 Games in
Paris, where he failed to advance beyond the first round of the
men's 200 metre breaststroke event.
Football career
He won the
1930 Yugoslav Football Championship The 1930 National Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1930. / Државно првенство 1930.) had the number of teams participating raised to six. The champion, Concordia Zagreb, was a newly formed team consisting of p ...
with
HŠK Concordia
HŠK Concordia was a Croatian football club formed in Zagreb. The club was founded as
the Srednjoškolski športski klub in 1906.
By the end of the First World War the club had played many matches with both domestic and foreign clubs. After the wa ...
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He made his debut for
Yugoslavia in an April 1927
friendly match away against
Hungary and earned a total of 5 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a November 1930
Balkan Cup match away against
Bulgaria.
He eventually graduated from the
University of Zagreb with a law degree and opened a private practice in the city after two years of work in the courts. Fluent in five languages, he built an international client base prior to
World War II, eventually moving to
Switzerland
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in 1943 during the conflict.
While in the country, he competed actively in skiing.
Personal life
Pavelić moved to
New York City in 1946 and married his Swiss lover Irene Gmur. Soon after he founded Pavimpex Co., an import/export business focusing on lead and
copper, with his brother.
He moved to
Greenwich, Connecticut in 1951 and continued his business, with an emphasis on specialty gifts from Italy and Austria.
He retired in 1975 and his wife died in December 1984. Pavelić himself died in Greenwich in February 2011, at the
age of 103.
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1908 births
2011 deaths
Footballers from Zagreb
Swimmers from Zagreb
Yugoslav male swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Yugoslavia
Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Association football forwards
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
HŠK Concordia players
FK BASK players
Yugoslav First League players
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni
Croatian centenarians
Men centenarians