Borislava Perić-Ranković (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислава Перић-Ранковић; born 16 June 1972) is a disabled Serbian table tennis player.[1] She represented Serbia at the 2008,[2] 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in table tennis, winning one gold and three silver medals.[3] She competes in the disability class 4. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the individual class 4 competition, defeating China's Zhang Miao in the finals.[4] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal.[5]
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| Medal record | ||
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| Women's table tennis | ||
Representing  Serbia
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| Paralympic Games | ||
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Individual class 4 |
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Teams class 4-5 |
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2008 Beijing | Individual class 4 |
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2012 London | Individual class 4 |
| World Para Table Tennis Championships | ||
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2014 Beijing | Teams class 4 |
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2010 Gwangju | Teams class 4 |
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2014 Beijing | Singles class 4 |
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2010 Gwangju | Singles class 4 |
Life edit
Perić-Ranković was born in Bečej in 1972. She had a workplace accident in 1994, sustaining spinal cord injuries. She has used a wheelchair ever since. She began training table tennis in 2002, and moved to Novi Sad in 2006 to train with trainer Zlatko Kesler.[6]
She has won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 2010 and 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships.[1]
In 2015, Perić-Ranković received ITTF Star Award for female para table tennis player of the year.[7]
Parliamentarian edit
In the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) reserved many of the lead positions on its Together We Can Do Everything electoral list for non-party cultural figures and academics.[8] Perić-Ranković was given the seventh position on the list; this was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 250 mandates.[9]
She is a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction and a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society.[10]
Notes edit
- ^ a b ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
- ^ The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Borislava Peric-Rankovic - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ "POI: Borislava zlatna u Riju, Nada bronzana!" (in Serbian). N1. 12 September 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ "Table Tennis: PERIC RANKOVIC, Borislava". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ "Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe". Top Srbija. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ "Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars". ITTF. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "OVAKO VUČIĆ KROJI VRH IZBORNE LISTE SNS", Blic, 14 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
- ^ BORISLAVA PERIC - RANKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2023.
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