Dražen Dalipagić

Dražen Dalipagić
Medal record
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Dražen Dalipagić
Competitor for  Yugoslavia
Men's Basketball
Olympic Games
Silver 1976 Montreal Team
Gold 1980 Moscow Team
Bronze 1984 Los Angeles Team
World Championship
Silver 1974 Puerto Rico Team
Gold 1978 Philippines Team
Bronze 1982 Colombia Team
Bronze 1986 Spain Team
European Championships
Gold 1973 Spain Team
Gold 1975 Yugoslavia Team
Gold 1977 Belgium Team
Bronze 1979 Italy Team
Silver 1981 Czechoslovakia Team
Mediterranean Games
Gold 1975 Algiers Team

Dražen Dalipagić , born November 27, 1951 (1951-11-27) (age 59) in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Yugoslavian basketball player. He was enshrined as a player in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.

Yugoslavian national team

Dražen, widely known by his nickname Praja, finished high school at the Technical School in Mostar, and graduated from the Teachers College in Belgrade. He started playing basketball at the age of 19 and two years later, in 1973, Dalipagić played the first of his 243 games that he would play between the years 1973 and 1986 with the Yugoslavian national basketball team, winning the gold medal at the 1978 FIBA World Championship and the gold medal at the 1980 Olympics Basketball Tournament. As a member of the Yugoslavian national team, he also won three gold medals at the European Championships. His four medals in the World Championships (Silver, 1974 FIBA World Championship; Gold, 1978 FIBA World Championship; Bronze, 1982 FIBA World Championship and 1986 FIBA World Championship) is an all-time international basketball record. A three-time Olympian, Dalipagić was instrumental in the Yugoslavian team's capturing the gold in the 1980 Olympics.

He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and Dalipagić is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugoslavian history. Dalipagić was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player on September 10, 2004. In 2007, he was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame.

Pro career

He was one of the most dominating players in Europe during the late 1970s and early 1980s era and while playing for the pro club KK Partizan (1971–78, 1979–80, 1981–82) he won the European Player of the Year Mr. Europa award twice in the years 1977 and 1978, and the European Player of the Year Euroscar award in the year 1980. He is acclaimed as the best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1978. In 1976, he led Partizan to the Yugoslav League title, and also to the FIBA Korać Cup title in 1978. He also played for KK Crvena zvezda in the 1990-91 season.

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Awards
Preceded by
Italy Pierluigi Marzorati
Mr. Europa
1977, 1978
Succeeded by
Soviet Union Vladimir Tkachenko
Preceded by
Šaban Seidiju
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Best Athlete of Yugoslavia
1978
Succeeded by
Miodrag Perunović



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