- Dubravko Šimenc
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Dubravko Šimenc Personal information Born November 2, 1966 Medal recordMen's Water Polo Competitor for Yugoslavia Gold 1988 Seoul Team Competition Competitor for Croatia Silver 1996 Atlanta Team Competition Dubravko Šimenc (born November 2, 1966 in Zagreb) is a former Croatian water polo player who competed for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.
Dubravko Šimenc's father Zlatko was a water polo player who won the silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics playing for Yugoslavia, and also a professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology. Šimenc's mother was a volleyball player. As a boy, Šimenc played many different sports. He started to play water polo in 1975.
Šimenc's first major medal was silver in the 1985 European Championships with Yugoslavia. The following year, his club Mladost won the World Champion title in Madrid.
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- Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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