Zorko Cvetković (September 4, 1924 – December 13, 2017) was a Croatian

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and

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player and

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. He represented the

Yugoslavia national basketball team The Yugoslavia men's national basketball team ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije, Кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије; ; ) represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

internationally.

Engineering career

Cvetković graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the

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in 1950, and later obtained a doctorate in 1983. From 1947 to 1994, he was an external associate at the Department of High Voltage and Power of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb. He was a secretary-general of the CIGRÉ branch in Croatia from 1989 to 2004.

Basketball career

After the end of

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in 1945, Cvetković started to play basketball. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national team which participated at the 1947 FIBA European Championship. After retirement, he was a

, a

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and the president of

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References

1924 births 2017 deaths Croatian electrical engineers Croatian men's basketball players Croatian basketball coaches Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb alumni Basketball players from Osijek Yugoslav men's basketball players Yugoslav basketball coaches Yugoslav engineers Shooting guards Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery {{Croatia-bio-stub