Anđela_Mužinić

Anđela Mužinić

Anđela Mužinić

Croatian para table tennis player

Anđela Mužinić Vincetić is a Croatian table tennis Paralympic player. In pair with Helena Dretar Karić in doubles, they won two medals both in the Paralympics (2016, 2020) and World Championships (2014, 2017) as well as six medals at the European Championships, five of which were gold (2013-2023) and one bronze (2011).[1] She also won two medals at the World Championships (2014, 2017) and three at the European Championships (2015-2019) in singles.

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She won a silver medal with her partner Helena Dretar Karić in Class 1–3 table tennis during the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[2]

Until the traffic accident in Srinjine (near Split), in which she suffered fracture of the seventh and eighth thoracic vertebrae with her legs being completely taken away, she played volleyball.[3] While recuperating in Varaždinske Toplice, she was visited by Helena Dretar Karić and introduced to para table tennis.[3] After four months, she returned to elementary school and started playing table tennis.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Croatian para table tennis duo become European champions for the fifth time". croatiaweek.com. Croatia Week. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Andela Muzinic". Paralympics. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  3. [3]
    Mrvec, Damir (16 September 2023). "Nakon zlata zaboraviš na neukusnu hranu i glavobolje" [After gold, you forget about tasteless food and headaches]. Večernji list (in Croatian). No. 21406. Zagreb. p. 21. ISSN 0350-5006.
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