Boris Kristančič

Boris Kristančič (November 21, 1931 – October 29, 2015) was a Slovenian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.

Boris Kristančič
Boris Kristančič
Personal information
Born(1931-11-21)21 November 1931
Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died29 October 2015(2015-10-29) (aged 83)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
NationalitySlovenian
Listed height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Listed weight72 kg (159 lb)
Career information
Playing career1949–1967
Coaching career?–1967
Career history
As player:
1949–1961Enotnost/AŠK Olimpija
1962–1967Stella Azzura
As coach:
?–1967AŠK Olimpija
Career highlights and awards
As player:
  • 3x Yugoslav League champion (1957, 1959, 1961)
  • Yugoslav League top scorer (1954)

As coach:

  • 5x Yugoslav League champion (1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966)

Basktebll career

He spent most of his career at the AŠK Olimpija in Ljubljana in some cases both simultaneously as a player and as a coach during 1950s and 1960s. With his extensively assistance, the Olimpija celebrated the five of the six championship titles that they won in the framework of the Yugoslav First Basketball League.

Kristančič was the first Slovene basketball player who played for a foreign club.[1]

He was a member (1967–1978) and the president (1978–1983)[2] of the technical committee of Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia and the head of the organizing committee of 1970 FIBA World Championship in Ljubljana.[3]

Yugoslav national team

He represented the Yugoslav national basketball team from 1951 to 1960 and played 81 games[4], also he was the captain of the team for six years. In particular with national team, he participated in the 1954 FIBA World Championship[5] (11th) in Brazil, in two European Championships (1957 6th & 1959 9th) and in the 1960 Summer Olympics basketball tournament[6] in Rome, Italy, where the nascent "Plavi" ranked sixth in total 16 teams.

Personal life

Kristančič was born in Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day Republic of Macedonia). Beside basketball career, he was a construction engineer.[7]

In 2001, President of Slovenia Milan Kučan honored Kristančič with an Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia for "the life jubilee of fifty years working in the field of Slovenian sport, especially for merits in the development of basketball".[1]

He died on the same day as a FIBA Hall of Fame Serbian basketball coach Ranko Žeravica.

Career achievements and awards
Other
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References
  1. Žalosten dan za košarko - poslovil se je tudi Boris Kristančič
  2. Boris Kristančič (1931–2015)
  3. In memoriam: Boris Kristančič (1932 – 2015)
  4. "Umrl je Boris Kristančič". Archived from the original on 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  5. Kristancic at 1954 FIBA World Championship
  6. Kristancic at 1960 Summer Olympics
  7. Kdo je bil Boris Kristančič, eden od očetov sodobne slovenske košarke
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