Božidar Peter
Božidar Peter (3 March 1938 – 24 April 2012) was a former Croatian handball player, coach and journalist. Peter was part of the first successful generation of Partizan Bjelovar. With the club he won the Yugoslav First League three time, the Yugoslav Cup once and got to the final of the European Champions Cup in 1962 where they lost to Frisch Auf Göppingen. He played for the Yugoslav national team at 1958 World Championship in German Democratic Republic and 1961 World Championship in West Germany. He moved to Rijeka where he finished his playing career and began coaching in RK Kvarner. He worked in Novi list as a journalist. Honours ;Partizan Bjelovar *Yugoslav First League **Winner (3): 1957-58, 1960-61, 1966-67 **Runner-up (4): 1958-59, 1959-60, 1962-63, 1963-64, *Yugoslav Cup **Winner (1): 1960 * European Champions Cup **Finalist (1): 1962 ;Kvarner * Regional League of Primorje and Istra **Winner (2): 1967–68, 1968–69 **Runner-up (1): 1965-66 * Croatian Un ...
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Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ...
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1961 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1961 World Men's Handball Championship was the fourth team handball World Championship. It was held in West Germany between 1–12 March 1961. A united team composed of players from the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany competed. Romania men's national handball team, Romania won the championship. Results Preliminary round GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C GROUP D Main Round GROUP 1 GROUP 2 Final matches Final standings Medallists References External links

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Handball Players From Rijeka
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins. Modern handball is played on a court of , with a goal in the middle of each end. The goals are surrounded by a zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "diving" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball, Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact is ...
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Sportspeople From Bjelovar
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track and field and marathon runners but excluding e.g. swimmers, footballers or basketball players. However, in other contexts (mainly in the United States) it is used to refer to all athletics (physical culture) participants of any sport. For the latter definition, the word sportsperson or the gendered sportsman or sportswoman are also used. A third definition is also sometimes used, meaning anyone who is physically fit regardless of whether they compete in a sport. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise, accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the , ''at ...
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RK Kvarner Coaches
RK may refer to: Science and technology * Radial keratotomy, a surgical procedure on the eye * Rhodopsin kinase, an enzyme * r/K selection theory, in biology, relating to the trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring * Runge–Kutta methods, in numerical analysis Airlines * Royal Khmer Airlines (former IATA code: RK), ceased operations 2007 * R Airlines (former IATA code: RK), ceased operations 2018 * Ryanair UK (IATA code: RK), UK based subsidiary airline of Ryanair Other uses * Raising Kaine, a defunct Virginia political blog * Reichskommissariat, a historical Nazi territorial division * Rangkasbitung railway station, station code RK * Ridwan Kamil, former governor of West Java province since 2018-2023 See also * RK (), Finnish assault rifles; for example RK 62 * Republic of Korea (ROK) * Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Easte ...
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Croatian Handball Coaches
Croatian may refer to: *Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (other) The Croatan The Croatan were a small Native Americans in the United States, Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. They might have been a branch of the larger Roanoke (tribe), Roanoke people or ...