Ivo Štakula
Appearance
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Born | Dubrovnik, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes | 25 February 1923|||||||||||
Died | 26 October 1958 Melbourne, Australia | (aged 35)|||||||||||
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Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||
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Ivo Štakula (25 February 1923 – 26 October 1958) was a Croatian water polo player who represented Croatia and Yugoslavia nationally and was a long-time player for VK Jug Dubrovnik.
He died in Melbourne.
Štakula played with the Yugoslavian national team from 1946 to 1956. He participated in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics.[1] He defected to Australia after the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[2]
Štakula won silver with the team at the 1952 Olympics. Four years later he was a squad member of the Yugoslav Olympic team in the 1956 tournament but did not play in a match.
He also played for the Croatian national water polo team during World War II.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ivo Štakula". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Vaterpolisti, XVI igre, Melburn 1956". okscg.org.yu. Archived from the original on 13 July 2007.
External links
[edit]- Ivo Štakula at World Aquatics
- Ivo Štakula at Olympics.com
- Ivo Štakula at Olympedia (archive)
- Ivo Štakula at the Croatian Olympic Committee (in Croatian) (archived)
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 1958 deaths
- Water polo players from Dubrovnik
- Croatian male water polo players
- Yugoslav male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players for Yugoslavia
- Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav defectors
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Croatian water polo biography stubs
- Yugoslav Olympic medalist stubs
- Yugoslav water polo biography stubs