FIBA Hall of Fame
    Radivoj KORAC (SRB)

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    2007
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    Category | Player Date of Birth | 05.11.1938 Date of Death | 02.06.1969 Position | Power Forward Height | 196cm (6'5") Country | Serbia

    Clubs

    • OKK Belgrade: 1954-1967

    • Standard Liege: 1967-1968

    • Padova: 1968-1969

    Club Highlights

    • 4 times Champion of the Yugoslavian League: 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1964

    • 2 times Champion of the Yugoslavian Cup: 1960 and 1961

    • Champion of the 1968 Belgian League

    National Team

    • 157 appearances with the Yugoslavian National Team

    • Olympic Silver medalist in Mexico 1968

    • 2 times Silver medalist in World Championships: Rio de Janeiro 1963 and Montevideo 1967

    • 2 times Silver medalist in European Championships: Belgrade 1961 and Moscow 1965

    • Bronze medalist in the 1963 European Championship in Wroclaw

    Individual Highlights

    • Top Scorer of the 1960 Rome Olympic Games

    • 3 times Top Scorer of the European Championships: Belgrade 1961, Wroclaw 1963 and Moscow 1965

    • 7 times (all-time record) Top Scorer of the Yugoslavian League: 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1962-1965

    • In 1965, with OKK Belgrade, he scored 99 points in a OKK Belgrade 155-57 win against Alvik Stockholm

    • In 1972, FIBA established the European Cup Radivoj Korac in his remembrance

    • In 2003, the Basketball Federation of Serbia and Montenegro renamed its national Cup as Radivoj Korac Cup

    • There are four clubs in Europe bearing the name of Korac: in Belgrade and Rumenka (Serbia), in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and in Zurich (Switzerland)