Croatian Olympic Committee

Zagreb, April 15, 2020 - International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (MDSRM) is an annual celebration of the power of sports to drive social change, community development and to foster peace and understanding. Since the partners cannot celebrate it in accordance with the clauses of the agreement signed in early February in Zagreb, they jointly propose: LET’’S MARK IT TOGETHER - ONLINE!

Lausanne/Tokyo, March 30, 2020 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Government of Japan formally confirmed the new dates for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad via telephone conference that took place this Monday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), Tokyo Olympics 2020 were scheduled to take place next year from July 23rd to August 8th and the Paralympic Games from August 24th to September 5th.

Zagreb, March 10th, 2020 - The International Olympic Academy (IOA) plans to implement several educational programs open to candidates from all countries this year as well. After the completed competitions of the Croatian Olympic Academy (COA), Croatian representatives were selected. At the 60th International Youth Symposium with this year's main topic of the symposium "Olympism and Humanism" and special topic "Olympic Games: Human Rights, Diversity and Inclusion in Sports", the Croatian candidate is Marija Leskovec.

Zagreb, March 1st, 2020 –Regarding the Croatian athletes at the international stage, the weekend of the February-March transition was marked by our proverbially successful shooters. The national shooting male team in 10M Air Rifle - Miran Maričić, Petar Gorša and Borna Petanjek - won a silver medal at the European Shooting Championships 10Mheld in Wroclaw (Poland).In the second qualification round,  the Croatian threesome achieved the second best result (626.4 hits), which also brought our team a fight for gold medal with the best representation of the second part of the competition - Russia (628.6 hits). The Russians (Sergei Kamensky, Alexander Dryagin and Vladimir Maslenikov) confirmed that primacy in the finals by winning 16-8. Team bronze went to the French ... Miran Maričić and Esthera Herceg also won bronze in mixed doubles for Croatia.

Zagreb, February 22nd, 2020 - After January's silver in Adelboden, Croatia's top skier Filip Zubčić created a new major venture by winning the frst place in Giant Slalom in Japan's Yuzawa Naebi.

Rome, February 14th 2020 - The formation of the European Olympic Committee's(EOCs) forming of the working group for strengthening the relations with the European Union (EU) has been confirmed at the headquarters of the European Olympic Committees (EOCs) in Rome. The three-member working body consistsof EOCs Vice President Niels Nygaard and members of the EOCs Executive Board Spyros Capralos and Zlatko Mateša. The President of the COC Mateša was also appointed the Head of the group.

Zagreb, February 10th 2020 - A meeting of the members of the European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO) was held at the Croatian Olympic Committee (COC) over the weekend. Six of the foreseen seven members- from Lithuania, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Sweden - attended the meeting of the ENGSO Youth Committee and were hosted by their Croatian colleague, Iva Glibo.

Zagreb, January 27, 2020 - One of the greatest Croatian athletes of all time, Goran Ivanišević, is a new member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame in the American city of Newport. He became the first Croat in this respectable community, and received this recognition for a fantastic career that culminated in winning the Wimbledon title in 2001. In the most recent selection, Ivanišević earned his spot among the notables and became inductee alongside Spain's Conchita Martinez, and this new duo from the Hall of Fame was featured in Rod Laver Arena, the main venue of the Australian Open in Melbourne, entering its second week.

Zagreb, January 25, 2020 - After a 3-0 victory over the United Kingdom in a decisive match at the ITTF World Team Qualification Tournament held in Gondomar (Portugal), the Croatian Male Table Tennis Team (Tomislav Pucar, Andrej Gaćina, Tomislav Frane Kojić and Filip Zeljko) secured their performance at the Tokyo Olympics. Gaćina and Pucar defeated the Brits in Singles, and Kojić and Gaćina defeated the Brits in Doubles, respectively. In addition to Tomislav Pucar (European bronze medal won at the European Games in Minsk in 2019) having reached the individual Olympic standard, we will have another hope in Singles at the Tokyo Olympics.

Lausanne, January 15, 2020 - Croatian hockey player in the version 3x3, Luka Banek (born in 2005 in Zagreb), won a bronze medal at the third Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne and St. Moritz (January 9-22). In the battle for 3rd place, the nationally mixed Brown team, in which Banek was playing, defeated the Black team 6-5. This is the first medal won by a Croatian male or female athlete at the Winter Youth Olympics, and the "brown" hockey team consisted of players from 12 other states or national Olympic committees (Men's Mixed NOC Team 3-on-3).

Lausanne, January 9, 2020 – The third Winter Youth Olympic Games that take place from January 9 to 22, 2020 in Lausanne and St. Moritz, were officially opened with the ceremony held at the Vaudoise Arena in Lausanne, Switzerland, before 8,000 spectators. A total of 1880 female athletes from 79 countries, aged 15-18, participated in 16 sports. During the ceremonial march to Lausanne, the Croatian flag-bearer was biathlete and cross-country skier Nika Jagečić.

Zagreb, December 7, 2019 - At the last World Taekwondo Grand Prix in 2019 in Moscow, the member of the Croatian national team Matea Jelić won a silver medal in the category -67 kg, which also that she reached the Olympic standard for Tokyo 2020. After three consecutive victories (Kazakhstan's Tursunkulova 10-8, Britain's Williams 34-32 and France's Wiet Henin 8-7), a 21-year-old Knin native and member of Split's TK Marjan, was narrowly defeated (7-8) in the final duel by Ruth Gbagbi of Ivory Coast.

Zagreb, 30. studenoga 2019. - Nakon stručnog osposobljavanja u projektu Hrvatske olimpijske akademije (HOA) I Hrvatskog planinarskog saveza (HPS), druga generacija trenera sportskog penjanja primila je zaslužene diplome i prigodne darove na svečanosti u zagrebačkom hotelu Sheraton. Prvom naraštaju od 23 polaznika pridružilo se tako 25 novoosposobljenih trenera. Među njima je 11 žena, a taj podatak je u skladu s težnjama Međunarodnog olimpijskog odbora (MOO) za uspostavom potpune spolne ravnopravnosti u pogledu zastupljenosti muškaraca i žena u olimpijskim programima.