Zorko_Cvetković

Zorko Cvetković

Zorko Cvetković

Croatian electrical engineer and basketball player/coach

Zorko Cvetković (September 4, 1924 – December 13, 2017) was a Croatian electrical engineer and basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.

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Engineering career

Cvetković graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb in 1950, and later obtained a doctorate in 1983.[1]

From 1947 to 1994, he was an external associate at the Department of High Voltage and Power of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb.[2]

He was a secretary-general of the CIGRÉ branch in Croatia from 1989 to 2004.[1]

Basketball career

After the end of Second World War in 1945, Cvetković started to play basketball.[1] He was a member of the Yugoslavia national team which participated at the 1947 FIBA European Championship.[3] After retirement, he was a coach, a referee and the president of Mladost Zagreb.

References

  1. [1]
    "Zorko Cvetkovic Biography". hro-cigre.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. [2]
    "ZVNE - Osoblje zavoda i vanjski suradnici". fer.unizg.hr. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Cvetkovic Player Profile at the 1947 FIBA European Championship". FIBA.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.


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