Sport in Croatia

Croatia is country, like most of the Eastern European countries, that gives a great importance to sport and sports activities. Dating back from the beginning of last century, Croatian man and women are involved in various sport activities. There are various sport clubs all over Croatia, in small as well as larger places, towns and cities.

Best known sportsman and sportwomen from Croatia are Goran Ivanisevic, the Wimbledon winner, Janica and Ivica Kostelic - skiing champions, Croatian Handball Team, as well as Croatian Basketball and football (soccer) teams ( just to mention few...)

Small Gallery of Croatian Sport Old Labels:

Sports in Croatia

Old Sport labels from Croatia

Old Croatian Sport Labels - click to enlarge

Croatians change World Cup jerseysCroatians change World Cup jerseys : Croatia has bowed to a request by football's governing body FIFA to change the design of their World Cup jerseys. It was ruled that there was too much white on them, the Zagreb daily Vecernji List reported Friday. The decision means the team will play in Germany with a different strip to the one it used in the qualifications and to the replicas sold to tens of thousands of fans...read more

Wakeboard Croatia Open 2006Wakeboard Croatia: This comming weekend, on the Saturday at Cable Krk - the wakeboard ski lift in bay of Punat on Island of Krk, the fifth international cable wakeboard competition Croatia Open will be hosted. The best wakeboarders from Croatia as well as Europe are expected to compete , among them wakeboard world's champion Bernhard Hinterberger, European champion Lior Sofer (last years winner of Croatia Open). read more...

Speedway Racetrack in small Croatian village : Donji Kraljevec is a small community in the Croatian Medjimurje County, some 20 km east of Cakovec. With population of under 2000 one wouldn't expect that village to be centre of Speedway Motor Sport. However, due to enthusiasm of it's local community , this village is getting more and more acknowledged in speedway world. read more...

Croatian Sport Links:

We also collected some sport links for various croatian sport websites for you to further explore. Some of the clubs are larger, some are just small clubs. There are some official sport info for various Croatian sport association.

Croatia World Games

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