Croatia medalled eight times during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with 3 Golds, 3 Silvers, and 2 Bronze.
It’s the second most successful games for Croatia with the least amount of athletes they ever had take part. Per CroatiaWeek, Croatia had the fewest amount of athletes in its history in Tokyo with 58 (38 men and 20 women) in 15 different sports.
Croatia’s Olympic record:
Barcelona 1992 – 41 athletes – 12 sports (3 medals)
Atlanta 1996 – 85 athletes – 14 sports (2 medals)
Sydney 2000 – 91 athletes – 12 sports (2 medals)
Athens 2004 – 81 athletes – 14 sports (5 medals)
Beijing 2008 – 101 athletes – 15 sports (5 medals)
London 2012 – 107 athletes – 18 sports (6 medals)
Rio de Janeiro 2016 – 88 athletes – 18 sports (10 medals)
Tokyo 2021 – 58 athletes – 15 sports (8 medals)
Once again, not bad for a nation of only 4 million people. At these same games in Tokyo, Belgium (12 million population) earned 7 medals, Greece (11 million population) earned 4 medals, India (1.3 billion population) earned 7 medals, Argentina (45 million population) earned 3 medals, and Mexico (128 million population) earned 4 medals.
I was disappointed in waterpolo We beat Serbia but they go on and win the gold we were stuck playing for 5th. We need more team sport medals next time.
https://www.croatiaweek.com/luka-sucic-talented-teen-confirms-loyalty-to-croatia/?fbclid=IwAR0Resim_TbU5arToWhX8xjhNLEcfFovsgg0-zseUFzLwOQB1vJiCM8uwP0
I guess he is loving ZDS life after all
Obviously brought up correctly unlike Sosa
He is already showing signs of being a proper leader
If he develops like we hope this may be a captain Croatia type dude one day
I like this ujko Sučić character
Ha! Almost as cool as Jelavic’s
He’s a Hercegovac.
He’s not going anywhere.
Lol.
So was Sosa.
The kid has a good uncle.
Only Brekalo is confirmed to live the ZDS lifestyle so far
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2944548-luka-doncic-mavericks-agree-to-5-year-207m-supermax-contract-extension
Dražen Petrović was 30 years before his time.
We need a basketball champion.
A lot of chatter on Croatia low athletes number .. although that raw number is not necessarily overly representative
Croatia had neither basketball or handball at this tournament which bring lots of players for one sport and inflate things
Anyway…
They received 8 medals after participating in only 15 events.
No other country does this.
Yea, aside from Jamaica, I think we generally have the highest gold medal (and total medal) per sport. And unlike Jamaica, our medals aren’t entirely from Track (plus they still sent almost as many athletes as we did, despite their smaller population).
This year, we only sent 50-something athletes across 15 sports. Lowest since the war.
We kinda still didn’t meet expectations by screwing up in waterpolo, karate and a few other events where we finished 4th.
Pretty wild what we could do in sport if we had at least similar funding to what other countries provide.
At the same time, we’re probably better off spending that money on infrastructure projects like the Pelješac bridge lol.
Pretty sure that bridge is EU funded guy. Croats couldn’t afford it.
It is. Let’s hope the Chinese do a good job. Then the Croats can join the Shengen area which is where the EU want them, that’s why they’re funding the bridge, to get the Croats were they want them.
Pound for pound hard to top us
Could you imagine we actually had money…
Speaking of pound for pound. This guy is pure angry Croat animal
Quite entertaining
Him and hrgovic have a rivalry going
Is he the real deal?
He is undefeated and all his fights end in stoppages
Sorry here is the link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essentiallysports.com/boxing-news-watch-british-boxers-alen-babic-and-mark-bennett-get-into-a-slap-fight-during-face-offs/amp/
@Dannyj,
Babic is too small to challenge the big boys who are legit boxers. He weighed in at 210, while the champs are 250 plus.
Quite shocking how bad Mexico and Argentina are at sports ,you would think they would excel at something other than soccer…we won’t mention India.
I mentioned this Babic guy a year ago, he’s quite entertaining and can see him turning into a top 5 guy in the division… but his heart can only get him so far he’s quite under sized.
He despises Hrgovic and thinks he’s a golden boy and wants a piece of big FILIP but doubt it will ever happen?
Filip is a big talent, but he’s being pumped up and may be getting a bit overrated now. His management team has done a good job building him up and picking the best path for his career, but he hasn’t really proven anything just yet.
Hrgović would never accept a fight against Babić. Babić is like Clubber Lang in Rocky 3. A hungry brawler who had a very difficult path getting where he is (with nobody doing him any favors), and has nothing to lose.
Great fight in Rocky 3!
Portugal too. Nothing besides soccer and even that is going downhill for them.