Borislava Perić-Ranković ( sr-cyr, Борислава Перић-Ранковић; born 16 June 1972) is a disabled

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player.ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
/ref> She represented Serbia at the

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and

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in table tennis, winning one gold and three silver medals. She competes in the disability class 4. In the

she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the individual class 4 competition, defeating China's Zhang Miao in the finals. At the

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, she won a bronze medal.

Life

Perić-Ranković was born in

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in 1972. She had a

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in 1994, sustaining

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. She has used a

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ever since. She began training table tennis in 2002, and moved to

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in 2006 to train with trainer Zlatko Kesler. She has won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 2010 and 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships. In 2015, Perić-Ranković received ITTF Star Award for female para table tennis player of the year.

Parliamentarian

In the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the governing

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(SNS) reserved many of the lead positions on its '' Together We Can Do Everything''

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for non-party cultural figures and academics. Perić-Ranković was given the seventh position on the list; this was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 250 mandates. She is a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction and a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society.BORISLAVA PERIC - RANKOVIC
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2023.

Notes

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