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Duje Bonačić

1929 - 2020

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Duje Bonačić (10 April 1929 – 24 January 2020) was a Croatian rower who won a gold medal representing Yugoslavia in the coxless four event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Bonačić was born in Split to an ethnic Croat father and ethnic Slovene mother. He had an elder brother Vojko and a sister Nevenka. He graduated in natural sciences in Zagreb, and took up rowing to build muscles, as he weighed only 56 kg with a height of 183 cm at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Duje Bonačić is the 181st most popular athlete (up from 301st in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 219th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Duje Bonačić ranks 181 out of 6,025. Before him are Ecaterina Oancia, Gaston Reiff, Naoto Tajima, Irving Baxter, Carlo Airoldi, and Karin Balzer. After him are Annelie Ehrhardt, Dorando Pietri, William Petersson, Bobby Pearce, Alex Wilson, and Dominik Hašek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Duje Bonačić ranks 200. Before him are Charles Tilly, Rafael Eitan, Amitai Etzioni, Gastone Moschin, Claude Goretta, and Kjell Askildsen. After him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Josef Suk, Gerhard Hanappi, and Peter Yates. Among people deceased in 2020, Duje Bonačić ranks 205. Before him are Fernando Solanas, Ang Rita, Harry Gregg, Lee Konitz, Peter Sutcliffe, and Terry Goodkind. After him are Hugh Keays-Byrne, Pierino Prati, Lucio Urtubia, John Houghton, Suhaila Siddiq, and Fou Ts'ong.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Duje Bonačić ranks 146 out of 700. Before him are Jakov Gotovac (1895), Josip Runjanin (1821), Željko Čajkovski (1925), Ivo Lola Ribar (1916), Petar Preradović (1818), and Andrea Schiavone (1510). After him are Franjo Kuharić (1919), Pietro I Candiano (842), Vladimir Bakarić (1912), Ante Žanetić (1936), Robert Jarni (1968), and Petar Radaković (1937).

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Among ATHLETES In Croatia

Among athletes born in Croatia, Duje Bonačić ranks 1. After him are Dragutin Šurbek (1946), Franjo Mihalić (1920), Blanka Vlašić (1983), Milan Nenadić (1943), Ivan Gubijan (1923), Ivo Trumbić (1935), Ottavio Missoni (1921), Mate Trojanović (1930), Luciano Sušanj (1948), Velimir Valenta (1929), and Abdon Pamich (1933).

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