Croatia National Thread

[dcro 10,210]

Our 4-men bobsled team led by Dražen Silić is getting some good placements in North America. Finished 5th in Calgary today, and they also have 5th and 7th place from Whistler last week.

 

Maybe a chance for Olympic qualification.

[prso1000 724]

kresimir crnkovic had a solid result in cross country in norway last weekend

he should be now below 100 fis points in distance

does it mean we get two quoatas in cross country?

[dcro 10,210]

6 hours ago, prso1000 said:

kresimir crnkovic had a solid result in cross country in norway last weekend

he should be now below 100 fis points in distance

does it mean we get two quoatas in cross country?

 

Yes, as long as Dadić can stay within top 300 in the sprint.

[prso1000 724]

It looks like we will be represented only in two sports at Olympic Games in Korea: Alpine and Cross Country Skiing. 

 

There is still tiny chances in 4men bob, snowboard and biathlon, but very unlikely. 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Silić crew finished 8th in Park City today, one more race there tomorrow. Now they have two 5th places, two 7th places and one 8th place... Looking back at 2014 (when we finished as 3rd reserve), our best results (at the same races) were two 9th places, and there were also quite a few outside of top 10 finishes.

 

Things are looking pretty good for the qualification. Netherlands will not accept their quota, Switzerland might use only one of their places, and if Russia doesn't get banned in bobsleigh/skeleton, then they won't get banned anywhere.

Edited November 30, 2017 by dcro

[prso1000 724]

tomorrow nikita glasnovic (former sweden) starts for the first time under croatian flag

great news for us, altough i dont know why she is doing that

 

she is currently 4th in the olympic catgeory -57kg

[dcro 10,210]

Situation is looking pretty good for our bobsled team.

 

Seven best results will count for the IBSF qualification rankings. All racing has been done for 2017, and in New Year there are just two weeks of racing (2xWC, 3xEC and 2xNAC races) before the period is over. So this means that top 4 current best results are guaranteed to count, as none of the teams will be able to compete in more than 3 of the remaining races.

 

Top 4 results for our team are 5th, 5th, 7th and 7th. They also have useful 8th and 9th places "on the bench". 18th place is currently their 7th best result, but hopefully they'll improve it after New Years.

 

Some of our direct qualification rivals already have to count some 17th/18th places in Continental Cup though.

Edited December 17, 2017 by dcro

[Crolympic 29]

 CROATIAN ROAD TO TOKYO 2020 

 

Our men's U-21 football team continued with good results in their qualification group for U-21 European championship in Italy. After win against Moldova they played their match against Belarus in Varazdin in October. Croatia won 2 - 1. Simic and Benkovic scored goals for Croatia, both in extra-time. Four days later our team played on the same stadium against Czech Republic and won the match 5 - 1. Vlasic scored two goals and Karacic, Brekalo and Moro one goal. We also played two matches in November. We won a match in Velika Gorica against San Marino by 5 - 0. Jakolis scored three goals and Brekalo and Bockaj one goal. Five days later we played in Thessaloniki against Greece 1-1. Brekalo scored only goal for Croatia. Next match is scheduled on March 23rd against Czech Republic.

 

FOOTBALL M

Euro U21 qualification group 1

05th October          Varazdin (CRO)         CROATIA  - Belarus                     2:1

09th October          Varazdin (CRO)         CROATIA  - Czech Republic        5:1

08th November      V.Gorica (CRO)         CROATIA  - San Marino                5:0

13th November      Thessaloniki (GRE)   Greece       -  CROATIA                1:1

 

STANDINGS (group 1)

Pos	Team		Pl	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	CROATIA		5	4	1	0	16	3	13
2.	Greece		5	4	1	0	15	2	13
3.	Belarus		5	2	1	2	6	6	7
4.	Czech Republic		4	2	1	1	8	8	7
5.	Moldova		6	1	0	5	5	16	3
6.	San Marino		5	0	0	5	1	16	0

[Crolympic 29]

 CROATIAN ROAD TO TOKYO 2020 

 

Croatia women's football team started their qualifications for 2019 FIFA women's World Cup in France where European teams will fight for Olympic Games. We played first match in September in Ukraine. The match finished with result 1 - 1. Four days later we lost from Sweden in Varazdin 0 - 2. In October we played two matches - draw (2 - 2) in Hungary and defeat at home against Denmark (0 - 4).

 

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World Cup UEFA qualification group 4

15th September     Lviv (UKR)                 Ukraine         - CROATIA           1:1

19th September     Varazdin (CRO)         CROATIA      - Sweden              0:2

19th October          Gyor (HUN)                Hungary        - CROATIA           2:2

24th October          Zapresic (CRO)         CROATIA      - Denmark             0:4

 

STANDINGS (group 4)

Pos	Team		Pl	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Sweden		3	3	0	0	10	0	9
2.	Denmark		3	2	0	1	10	4	6
3.	Ukraine		2	1	1	0	2	1	4
4.	CROATIA		4	0	2	2	3	9	2
5.	Hungary		4	0	1	3	3	9	1

 

[Crolympic 29]

 CROATIAN ROAD TO TOKYO 2020 

 

Our men's basketball team started with qualifying games for FIBA 2019 World Basketball Championship in China. Our team is in group D with Italy, Netherlands and Romania. Top 3 teams will advance to second round and their results will be carried over from the first round. So far we played two games in November and we lost both. We played in Netherlands and lost 68 - 61, and in Zagreb against Italy we lost 64 - 80.

 

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FIBA Europe qualifying group D - 1st round

24th November      Almere (NED)   Netherlands        -  CROATIA                68:61

26th November      Zagreb (CRO)   CROATIA           -   Italy                        64:80

 

 

Edited December 26, 2017 by Crolympic