Category | Contributor Date of Birth | 09.07.1925 Date of Death | 20.03.2020 Country | Serbia
Highlights
Graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Belgrade. Veterinary inspector for meat control in Belgrade for ten years
As a player: 2 times Champion of the Yugoslavian League (1946 and 1947) with Red Star Belgrade and 36 appearances from 1940 to 1953 with the Yugoslavian National Team, participating in the 1st World Championship in Buenos Aires 1950
As a coach (obtains coach license in 1948, in Belgrade): OKK Belgrade from 1953 to 1963 and in 1965 (4 times Champion of the Yugoslavian League: 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1965) and Oransoda Cantù from 1966 to 1969 (1968 Italian League Champion)
Member of the Central Board of the Yugoslavian Basketball Federation: 1953-1966
Secretary General of the Yugoslavian Basketball Federation: 1956-1966
Elected Member of the European Cup Commission of FIBA: 1958
Vice-Secretary General of FIBA: 1960-1972
Deputy Secretary General of FIBA: 1972-1976
Secretary General of FIBA: 1976-2002
Member of the IOC's Commission for the Olympic Movement: 1982
Secretary General of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF): 1982-1993
Member of the Yugoslavian Olympic Committee: since 1988
Member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC): from 1988 to 2006
Member of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXV Olympiad (Barcelona 1992): 1988-1992
Member of the IOC's Olympic Programme Commission: 1992
Member of the IOC's Enquiry Commission for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad (Sydney 2000): 1992-1993
Member of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXVI Olympiad (Atlanta 1996): 1992-1996
Member of the IOC's Women and Sport Working Group: 1996
Member of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad (Athens 2004): 2000-2004
Secretary General Emeritus of FIBA: since August 2002
Distinctions & Recognitions
World Sport Leader Award, by the United States Sports Academy: 1983
Order of Merit of the Venezuelan Basketball Federation: 1983
Olympic Order, awarded by S.E. Mr. J.A. Samaranch, President of the IOC: 1985
Ordre National du Lion (Sénégal): 1999
Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur (France): 2001
Merit for Yugoslavia, First Degree: 2002
Award of the National Olympic Committee of Serbia & Montenegro: 2003
Olympic Order, awarded by Dr. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC: 2005