Denis Buntić (born 13 November 1982) is a retired Croatian

handball 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 thr ...

player. He is a retired player of the Croatian national team. Buntić was born in

Ljubuški Ljubuški is a city in the West Herzegovina Canton, a federal unit of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Kravica (waterfall), Kravica cascades lie within the city, near the settlement of Studenci, ...

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

. He won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia, and also the silver at the 2009 World Championship on home soil. He was part of the Croatian team that won the bronze medal at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Personal life

He was reported for

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in October 2023.

Honours

;Izviđač *

Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (; ; sr-Cyrl, Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), officially known as the Wwin League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for sponsorship purposes, is the top tier football leagu ...

: 1999-00, 2001–02, 2003-2004, 2004–05 * Cup of Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1999, 2002 ;Cimos Koper * Slovenian Cup: 2008 ;Ademar León *

Copa ASOBAL The Copa ASOBAL is an annual handball cup competition for Liga ASOBAL teams. It was first played for in 1990 and is contested by the top four teams at the end of the first half of the Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball ...

: 2009 ;Vive Targi Kielce *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

**Winner: 2015–16 **Third: 2012–13, 2014–15

Orders

Ribbon of an Order of the Croatian Trefoil

Order of the Croatian Trefoil The Order of the Croatian Trefoil () is the sixteenth most important medal given by the Republic of Croatia. The order was founded on 1 April 1995. The medal is awarded for excellence in war, direct war danger or in extraordinary circumstances in ...

- 2005

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* * * * 1982 births Living people Croatian male handball players 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Liga ASOBAL players CB Ademar León players RK Medveščak Zagreb players SC Pick Szeged players Vive Kielce players Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Croatia Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia in handball Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia Handball players at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Expatriate handball players in Poland Sportspeople from Ljubuški Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Croatian sportspeople from Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian expatriate handball players in Spain Croatian expatriate handball players in Hungary Expatriate handball players in Slovenia {{Croatia-handball-bio-stub