Summary
A basketball player and coach from Sumartin, a world champion as a player and coach of the Croatian team that won Olympic silver in Barcelona in 1992.
His career includes world championship gold in 1970 and Olympic silver with Croatia in 1992.
Roots in Sumartin and basketball in Split
Skansi was born in Sumartin. He spent most of his playing career with Split’s Jugoplastika, where he was one of the team’s key players. As a tall, mobile centre, he stood out for his versatile attacking game.
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Medals as a player
With the Yugoslav national team, he won the 1970 World Championship, silver at the 1967 World Championship and Olympic silver in 1968. His club success in Split preceded a long coaching career, which he began toward the end of his playing career.
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Coach of Croatia’s Olympic silver medal team
He coached the Croatian national team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, where it won silver after the final against the United States. As a coach, he worked in Croatia, Italy, Greece and Slovenia. In this international sports biography, Sumartin is a firmly established birthplace.
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