Women's national basketball team representing Yugoslavia
TheYugoslavia women's national basketball team (Serbo-Croatian :Ženska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije / Женска кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије ) was thewomen's basketball side that represented theKingdom of Yugoslavia andSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in international competition, and were controlled by theBasketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ).[ 1]
The team's first major tournament appearance was at the1954 European Championship , hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were a bronze medal at the1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and a silver medal at the1988 Seoul Olympics .
The team disappeared during thebreakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, and its last major tournament appearance was at the1991 European Championship in Israel, where they finished as runners-up losing to theSoviet Union in the final.
[ edit ] Yugoslavia EuroBasket Women 1991 Players Coaches Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age SG 4 Ilić, Danijela (1970-08-20 ) 20 August 1970SG 5 Lakić, Mara (1963-08-18 ) 18 August 1963SG 6 Vild, Eleonora (1969-06-09 ) 9 June 1969G 7 Bajkuša, Vesna (1970-05-21 ) 21 May 1970C 8 Bjedov, Nina (1972-05-18 ) 18 May 1972SG 9 Bilić, Danira (1969-07-22 ) 22 July 1969C 10 Golić, Slađana (1960-02-12 ) 12 February 1960C 11 Lelas, Žana (1970-05-28 ) 28 May 1970C 12 Mujanović, Razija (1967-04-15 ) 15 April 1967F 13 Mirvić, Silvana (1971-03-04 ) 4 March 1971SG 14 Arbutina, Anđelija (1967-03-29 ) 29 March 1967C 15 Milošević, Bojana (1965-11-29 ) 29 November 1965
Head coach Legend (C) Team captainDate – 1 July 1991
After thedissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, fivenew countries were created:Bosnia and Herzegovina ,Croatia ,FYR Macedonia ,FR Yugoslavia (in 2003, renamed to Serbia and Montenegro) andSlovenia . In 2006,Montenegro became an independent nation andSerbia became thelegal successor of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2008,Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia and became aFIBA member in 2015.
Here is a list of women's national teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area:
Basketball in Yugoslavia
National teams
League competitions
Cup competitions
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Silver: (1988)
Bronze: (1980)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–present)
Croatia (1992–present)
North Macedonia (1993–present)
Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)
Montenegro (2006–present)
Serbia (2006–present)
Kosovo (2015–present)
Slovenia (1992–present)
Basketball in Yugoslavia
