Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame

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The Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame (slovene: "Hram slavnih slovenskih športnikov") was founded in 2011 by the Society of Slovenian Sports Journalists (Društvo športnih novinarjev Slovenije)[1] and includes best Slovenian athletes of all time from different sport disciplines. This hall will be in function in 2012. At Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year event in December 2011 they inducted the first two Slovenian athletes, Leon Štukelj and Miro Cerar.

For more than a year and half, the Society of Slovenian Sports Journalists was preparing for the foundation of the "Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame". They did this with one goal, to keep Slovenian athletes with great international results alive in our minds. They want to keep all sports equipment connected with this great athletes and save historic sport events from articles of already retired sports journalists and all others.[2]

With this Hall of Fame of Slovenian athletes, the Society wants to invites visitors, students and all fans of sport, to keep Slovenian sport history alive, to allow best conditions for working of All Slovenian Sports Museum.

On 19 December 2012 twenty new inductees were introduced, also the Hall of fame was opened in Stožice Arena.[3] On 28 November class of 2013 was introduced with 28 new athletes.[4] Three athletes were introduced in August 2015,[5] two in August 2016[6] and December 2017[7] and three in January 2019.[8]

Inductees[edit]

Inductee Sport Year
Leon Štukelj gymnastics 2011
Miroslav Cerar gymnastics 2011
Rudolf Cvetko fencing 2012
Stane Derganc gymnastics 2012
Peter Šumi gymnastics 2012
Josip Primožič gymnastics 2012
Ludvik Starič motorcycling 2012
Nataša Urbančič athletics 2012
Draga Stamejčič athletics 2012
Stanko Lorger athletics 2012
Janez Polda ski jumping 2012
Jože Šlibar ski jumping 2012
Albin Felc ice hockey 2012
Rudi Hiti ice hockey 2012
Vinko Jelovac basketball 2012
Aljoša Žorga basketball 2012
Ivo Daneu basketball 2012
Brane Oblak soccer 2012
Janez Žirovnik cycling 2012
Mima Jaušovec tennis 2012
Eights from 1964 OG[9] rowing 2012
Miro Steržaj nine-pin bowling 2012
Franc Smolej cross-country skiing 2013
Ciril Praček alpine skiing 2013
Branko Ziherl diving 2013
Tone Cerer swimming 2013
Tine Mulej alpine skiing 2013
Janko Štefe alpine skiing 2013
Ivan Toplak association football 2013
Janko Kosmina and Mario Fafangel sailing 2013
Tine Šrot gymnastics 2013
Jurij Uršič cycling 2013
Edvard Vecko table tennis 2013
Ištvan Korpa table tennis 2013
Tone Gale ice hockey 2013
Milan Zadel canoeing 2013
Stanko Topolčnik judo 2013
Bojan Križaj alpine skiing 2013
Peter Vilfan basketball 2013
Bojan Ropret cycling 2013
Boris Strel alpine skiing 2013
Alenka Cuderman handball 2013
Borut Petrič swimming 2013
Miran Tepeš ski jumping 2013
Jure Franko alpine skiing 2013
Primož Ulaga ski jumping 2013
Andrej Jelenc canoeing 2013
Darjan Petrič swimming 2013
Matjaž Debelak ski jumping 2013
Mateja Svet alpine skiing 2013
Srečko Katanec association football 2015
Rok Petrovič alpine skiing 2015
Jure Zdovc basketball 2015
Iztok Puc handball 2016
Rolando Pušnik handball 2016
Polona Dornik basketball 2017
Marko Elsner association football 2017
Alenka Dovžan alpine skiing 2019
Katja Koren alpine skiing 2019
Jure Košir alpine skiing 2019

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ dolenjskilist.si
  2. ^ ljnovice.com
  3. ^ "Foto: Slovenija ima Hram športnih junakov" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  4. ^ "V Hram športnih junakov sprejetih še 28 slovenskih športnikov" (in Slovenian). MMC RTV-SLO. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Katanec, Zdovc in Petrovič v Hramu športnih junakov" (in Slovenian). MMC RTV-SLO. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Iztok Puc in Rolando Pušnik nova člana Hrama športnih junakov". Delo (in Slovenian). 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  7. ^ "V Hramu športnih junakov od danes tudi Polona Dornik in Marko Elsner". Delo (in Slovenian). 19 December 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. ^ "V Hram slovenskega športa sprejeti trije smučarji". MMC RTV-SLO (in Slovenian). 30 January 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  9. ^ Boris Klavora, Vekoslav Skalak, Jože Berc, Alojz Colja, Lucijan Kleva, Jadran Barut, Marko Mandić, Pavao Martić, Zdenko Balaš