Milka Babović
Yugoslavian athlete and journalist (1928–2020)
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Milena Babović |
| Born | (1928-10-27)27 October 1928[1] Skopje, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 26 December 2020(2020-12-26) (aged 92) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Sprint, hurdles |
| Club | Mladost Zagreb |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | 80 mH – 11.0 (1957)[1] |
Milena "Milka" Babović (27 October 1928 – 26 December 2020) was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist.
She won numerous sprinting events in the former Yugoslavia, and was selected the best athlete several times. She also had a noted career as a sports journalist and editor in television.
Life
Babović was born in Skopje to a Montenegrin father and a Syrmian German (Danube Swabian) mother, and grew up in Sarajevo, but moved to Ruma and Belgrade in high school. She graduated in pedagogy at the University of Zagreb.[2][3] Having taken up sports in Ruma, she joined Mladost in Zagreb and started to compete in sprinting events. Starting in 1953, she won the Yugoslav national titles in the 100 m (once), 80 m hurdles (seven), 4 × 100 m relay (seven), and 4 × 200 m relay events (two). She set several Yugoslav sprinting records, and won two international student competitions in the 80 m hurdles in 1953 and 1957; at the 1954 European Championships she placed fifth.[2] In the Sportske novosti awards polling, she was voted the best female athlete in Croatia three times and was twice the best female athlete of Yugoslavia.[2]
She worked as a sports journalist for Narodni sport since 1949, and moved to TV Zagreb in 1957 where she became the first sports editor. She served in that position, barring one four-year interruption, until 1975. She was a multiple-time president of the sport journalist section of the Croatian Journalist Association, served as a member of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee in two mandates, and was a one-time member of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the City of Zagreb.[2]
Babović was decorated with awards from the Journalist Association in 1974, the City of Zagreb in 1977, and the Yugoslav Order of Brotherhood and Unity with a silver wreath in 1979.[2] She died on 26 December 2020, from the effects of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia.[4]
References
- ^ a b Milena Babovic. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ a b c d e Frntić, Franjo (1983), "Babović, Milka", Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian), vol. 1, Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, retrieved 6 January 2014
- ^ Körbler, Jurica (13 November 2019). "MILKA BABOVIĆ, LEGENDA HRVATSKOG NOVINARSTVA: "Prije par dana na mene je naletio auto. Pala sam, ali sam ujedno i strogo zavikala. Ipak sam ja stara sportašica, znam kako se pada"". Glas Istre (in Croatian). Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Umrla Milka Babović: Otišla je velika sportašica i doajenka našeg sportskog novinarstva". Jutarnji list. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
External links
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- Milka Babović – Stranica mog života
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| Preceded by Marija Radosavljević Eša Ligorio | Yugoslav Sportswoman of the Year 1953 1955 | Succeeded by Eša Ligorio Vinka Jeričević |
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(1952–90)
- Milka Babović (1952–53)
- Eša Ligorio (1954)
- Milka Babović (1955)
- Vinka Jeričević (1956)
- Nada Vučković (1957)
- Hilda Zeier (1958)
- Tanja Zoković (1959)
- Tanja Kokeza (1960)
- Hilda Zeier (1961)
- Olga Šikovec (1962–63)
- Nada Vučković (1964)
- Ljiljana Petnjarić (1965–66)
- Mirjana Resler (1967)
- Đurđica Bjedov (1968)
- Ana Boban (1969)
- Ružica Meglaj (1970)
- Vera Nikolić (1971–72)
- Mara Torti (1973)
- Jelica Pavličić (1974)
- Branka Batinić (1975)
- Štefica Krištof (1976)
- Jelica Pavličić (1977)
- Pavica Galošević (1978)
- Sanda Dubravčić (1979)
- Štefica Krištof (1980)
- Sanda Dubravčić (1981)
- Biserka Perman (1982)
- Renata Šašak (1983)
- Branka Batinić (1984)
- Biserka Perman (1985)
- Jasna Šekarić (1986–89)
- Biljana Petrović (1990)
(1991–present)
- Danira Nakić (1991)
- Biserka Perman (1992)
- Suzana Skoko (1993)
- Iva Majoli (1994–97)
- Janica Kostelić (1998–2003)
- Blanka Vlašić (2004)
- Janica Kostelić (2005–06)
- Blanka Vlašić (2007–11)
- Sandra Perković (2012–19)
- Barbara Matić (2020)
- Matea Jelić (2021)
- Sandra Perković (2022)
- Lena Stojković (2023)
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