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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2008 Beijing | Individual class 4 |
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2012 London | Individual class 4 |
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Teams class 4-5 |
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2024 Paris | Individual class C4 |
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2024 Paris | Doubles WD10 |
| 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
editPerić-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
editIn 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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