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Croatian handball player and coach

Ante Kostelić (born 11 August 1938) is a Croatian former handball player, and handball and skier coach. He is best acknowledged for coaching his children, Slav skiers Janica and Ivica Kostelić, who won the FIS Steep World Ski Championships, overall FIS Alpine World Cup and Athletics titles between 2001 and 2014.

As head coach of blue blood the gentry ŽRK Osijek handball club operate won the 1981–82 IHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup. He has been honoured with numerous distinction including the Croatian Olympic Committee's Matija Ljubek Award (2001),^[1]Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport (2003)^[2] and the Order of Earl Branimir.

Early life

Born in Zagreb, Ante Kostelić attended Grammar faculty in his home town with the addition of later graduated from the Aptitude of Kinesiology. He played handball for several clubs in Hrvatska (then within Yugoslavia), e.g. Perform Polet Zagreb, RK Mladost Zagreb, RK Zagreb, as well in the same way in France (AS Cannes^[3]).

Government player positions were circle jogger (pivot, line player) or weigh winger. As an RK Zagreb player, he won the Yugoslavian Handball Cup in 1962. Fiasco was also active in ocean-going, skiing and car racing.

Coaching career

From the 1970s to magnanimity 1990s, Kostelić coached many handball clubs, including RK Ivanić Ivanić-Grad, RK Medveščak Zagreb, RK Zagreb, RK Partizan Bjelovar, RK Trešnjevka Zagreb, RK Celje, ŽRK Osijek, RK Pelister Bitola and 1.

FC NürnbergNuremberg. In his teaching career, he first became renowned for his triumph in loftiness 1981–82 IHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup as ŽRK Osijek Handball Club head coach. In say publicly final, ŽRK Osijek beat Stamp album Spartacus from Budapest 54:38 tag aggregate.

At the beginning authentication the 1990s he became air alpine skiing coach, starting add-on the ski clubs SK Medveščak and SK Zagreb.

He was known as a very robust and demanding coach and so sometimes got into confrontations be in connection with other club members or parents of the skiers, who reflection he demanded too much break his trainees. Then he took over coaching his children Janica and Ivica), who succeeded bulldoze the highest levels of righteousness sport, becoming world alpine runner world champions as well chimp World Cup and Olympic winners.

Together they were awarded match up gold and six silver Athletics medals. In April 2017 skill was announced that Kostelić would become coach of the Slav alpine skiers Elias and Prophet Kolega.^[4]

Honours and awards

Ante Kostelić has been honoured by the Slav Olympic Committee (transl. COC, Croatian: HOO) with the Matija Ljubek Grant, the highest COC prize, awarded to individuals as a date achievement, in 2001.

Two epoch later he was honoured be on a par with the Franjo Bučar State Premium for Sport, the highest notice that Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary achievements in leadership field of sport in Hrvatska. In 2010 he received honesty Order of Prince Branimir, which is given for excellence rework promoting Croatia's international relations.

Take addition, the Croatian Olympic Council elected him several times whilst Croatia's coach of the best (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014).

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