Milka Milinković
Appearance
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Personal information | |
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Born | Sanski Most, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia | 7 April 1955
Died | 11 June 2017 Rijeka, Croatia | (aged 62)
Sport | |
Country | ![]() ![]() |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability | Paraplegia |
Disability class | F55 |
Event(s) | Javelin throw Shot put |
Medal record |
Milka Milinković (7 April 1955 – 11 June 2017)[1] was a Croatian Paralympic athlete who mainly competed in javelin throw and shot put events. She was regarded as one of Croatia's most successful Paralympic athlete and her country's first ever medal at the 1992 Summer Paralympics after the independence of Croatia. She participated at nine Paralympic Games where she represented Yugoslavia from 1972 to 1988 and Croatia from 1992 to 2016.[2]
In 1968, when Milinković was thirteen, she became paralysed after falling off a tree and received medical treatment and attended a rehabilitation centre in Kraljevica. Milinković died of a long illness at a hospital in Rijeka aged 62.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Preminula Milka Milinković (1955. - 2017.) - Novosti .: HPO". hpo.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ "Milka Milinkovic - IPC Athlete Bio". ipc.infostradasports.com. 16 September 2020. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021.
- ^ "The most successful Croatian Paralympian Milka Milinkovic passed away (in Croatian)". fiuman.hr. 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Croatian Post Pays Tribute to Paralympic Athlete Milka Milinkovic". Total Croatia News. 9 September 2017.
Categories:
- 1955 births
- 2017 deaths
- People from Sanski Most
- Sportspeople from Una-Sana Canton
- Paralympic athletes for Croatia
- Croatian female javelin throwers
- Croatian female shot putters
- Yugoslav female javelin throwers
- Yugoslav female shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair javelin throwers
- Wheelchair shot putters
- Paralympic javelin throwers
- Paralympic shot putters