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Olimpijci

Our small place is home to number of sportsmen who represented Yugoslavia and later Slovenia at the Olympic Games.  Below are the names of sportsmen who were born in Mojstrana, Dovje, Belca (18) and those who moved to our area later. You can also read their names in the small botanical garden Viharnik on the road to the Vrata valley.

 

NR. NAME and SURNAME
FROM OLYMPIC GAMES
WINTER SPORT
1 Jožko Janša Dovje
1928 St. Moritz

Cross country skiing

2 Janko Janša
Dovje
1928 St. Moritz Cross country skiing
3 Albin Jakopič
Mojstrana 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Cross country skiing, ski jumping
4 Avgust Jakopič
Mojstrana
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Cross country skiing
5 Alojz Klančnik
Mojstrana

1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1948 St. Moritz

Cross country skiing
6 Karel Klančnik Mojstrana

1948 St. Moritz, 1952 Oslo

Ski jumping
7
Janez Polda
Mojstrana

1948 St. Moritz, 1952 Oslo, 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo

Ski jumping
8 Zdravko Hlebanja
Mojstrana 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cross country skiing
9
Mara Rekar
Mojstrana
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cross country skiing
10
Ciril Klinar
Mojstrana 1968 Grenoble
Ice hockey
11
Marjan Pečar Mojstrana 1968 Grenoble
Ski jumping
12
Edvard Hafner
Belca 1976 Innsbruck, 1984 Sarajevo
Ice hockey
13
Tone Djuričič
Mojstrana
1980 Lake Placid
Cross country skiing
14
Zvonko Šuvak
Belca 1984 Sarajevo
Ice hockey
15
Dušan Mrak
Mojstrana
1984 Sarajevo
Cross country skiing
16
Rajko Lotrič
Belca 1988 Calgary
Smučarski skoki
17
Jure Košir
Mojstrana

1992 Albertville, 1994 Lillehammer, 1998 Nagano,

2002 Salt Lake City

Alpine skiing
18
Alenka Dovžan
Mojstrana
1994 Albertville, 1998 Nagano, 2002 Salt Lake City
Alpine skiing
19
Aleš Brezavšček
Mojstrana
1998 Nagano
Alpine skiing
20
Uroš Pavlovčič
Dovje
2002 Salt Lake City
Alpine skiing
21
Urška Rabič
Mojstrana
2006 Torino
Alpine skiing

 

Source: Museum catalogue: Our Olympians.