Sandro_Sukno

Sandro Sukno

Sandro Sukno

Croatian water polo player

Sandro Sukno (born 30 June 1990) is a Croatian former professional water polo player.[1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Croatia national team in the men's event winning the gold medal. He also won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] He last played for VK Jug. He currently works as an assistant coach of the senior men's Croatia national team.

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Sukno's father is Goran Sukno, water polo gold medalist for Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[2]

Sukno was named Croatian water polo player of the year in 2014 and 2015, and best player in the 2014–15 Prva Liga.[3] In December 2017, Sukno won the trophy for the best water polo player in the 2016–17 season.[4] In 2017 he was named to the All-Star Team of the World Championships.[3] Croatia also won the World Championship that year.[3] In May 2019, he announced his retirement from playing professional water polo citing heart problems.[3]

Honours

As Player

Pro Recco

Primorje Rijeka

As Coach

Pro Recco

Awards

Orders

See also

References

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    London2012.com Archived 2012-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
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    "Sandro Sukno Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
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    "Sandro Sukno | fina.org - Official FINA website". www.fina.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
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    "Sandro Sukno - Winner of the TOTAL PLAYER 2017 AWARD". total-waterpolo.
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    "Dočekao priznanje: Joković u 33. godini osvojio Sikiricu! Zapjevala i Rozga". www.vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-03-06.
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    "Dočekao priznanje: Joković u 33. godini osvojio Sikiricu! Zapjevala i Rozga". www.vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-03-06.
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    krikstudio (2020-06-29). "SRETAN ROĐENDAN – Sandro Sukno". Hrvatski vaterpolski savez (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-03-06.
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    "LEN Champions League 2014-2015", Wikipedia (in Italian), 2021-08-23, retrieved 2022-03-05
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    Vijesti: Dodijeljena odlikovanja izraz su priznanja i zahvalnosti za rad i doprinos razvoju i napretku Republike Hrvatske(in Croatian)
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