Miho Bošković (born 11 January 1983)
is a Croatian professional
water polo
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player. He was part of the
Croatia national team, that won the gold medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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, as well as gold medals at the
2007 World Championship and
2010 European Championship, and bronze medals at the
2009
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and
2011 World Championships.
Bošković plays for
Vasas SC in the
Hungarian Championship, at the position of the offensive player.
He has played 108 matches for the national team.,
playing his first match in
Montreal
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, at the
2005 World Championship.
With Jug, he won the
2005–06 LEN Champions League,
LEN Super Cup
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, several
national championships and
cups.
He was named the best European water polo player in 2007 and 2012, by
LEN.
Scoring 369 goals, he has been the all-time top goalscorer for the senior Croatia national team.
Honours
Club
Jug Dubrovnik
*
LEN Champions League:
2005–06; ''runners-up'':
2006–07,
2007–08,
2012–13
*
LEN Super Cup
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: 2006
*
Adriatic League
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: 2008–09
*
Croatian Championship: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2015–16
*
Croatian Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
Vasas
*
Hungarian Championship:
2011–12
Awards
*
LEN "European Player of the Year" award: 2007, 2012
* Croatian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2007
with Jug Dubrovnik
See also
*
Croatia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Croatia men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.
The Croatia men's national water polo team has participated in 7 of 27 official men's water polo tourn ...
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List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
*
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
*
List of world champions in men's water polo
This is a list of Water polo at the World Aquatics Championships, world champions in men's water polo since the inaugural official edition in Water polo at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament, 1973.
Abbreviations
History
...
*
List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Water polo players from Dubrovnik
Croatian male water polo players
21st-century Croatian sportsmen
Water polo drivers
Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Croatia in water polo
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
Croatian expatriate water polo players
Vasas SC water polo players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
European Water Polo Championship medalists
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