Ornela Paliska

Ornela Paliska is a Yugoslav former handball player.

Ornela Paliska
Personal information
Born Labin, NR Croatia,
FNR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Medal record
Women’s handball
Representing  Yugoslavia
U-20 World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1977 Romania U-20 Team

She started playing handball for Labin's ŽRK Rudar Labin.[1] She was part of ŽRK Rudar Labin's golden generation that played in the Yugoslav First League with Rudar.[2][3]

In 1977 she was, together with Lorena Beučić, Biserka Emer, Ema Gabrić, Željka Maras, Snježana Perić and Jasna Ptujec,[4] one of the six Croatian players who were part of the broader Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team that won the gold at the 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship in Romania. It is the only gold won by Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team at the World Championship.[4]

In 2011, at an event in occasion of the signing of a cooperation agreement between Mladi Rudar Labin and the Balić - Metličić Academy, presided by many former handball players, including Ivano Balić, Lorena Beučić, Adriana Prosenjak, Karmen Kokot and Valner Franković, she performed at an exhibition game with the other greatest players in Labin's history, including Kokot, Prosenjak and Ingrid Zuliani.[5][3]

Also several other members of her family were handball players.[2]

References

  1. "LABINSKE REPREZENTATIVKE". RK Rudar Labin. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. R. Matteoni. "Tradicija je stvar koju se ne može kupiti - SUSRET AKTIVNIH I UMIROVLJENIH IGRAČA U LABINU, MEĐU KOJIMA I SVJETSKIH I OLIMPIJSKIH PRVAKA, SVE OSNOVANIJE NOSI RADNI NASLOV `PRAZNIK RUKOMETA`". Labin.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. LabinSport. "Handball day in Labin: Ivano Balić godfather of the new contract RU Mladi rudar - RWE". Labin.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. Gizdić, Jurica (2013). "Hrvatska i olimpijska odličja" Jurica Gizdić . Grafika Markulin. p. 123. ISBN 9789532974256. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021.
  5. Robi FONOVIĆ. "ODRŽAN "RWE DAN RUKOMETA" NA KOJEM SU SE LABINJANIMA PREDSTAVILI GOTOVO SVI KOJI SU PISALI LABINSKU RUKOMETNU POVIJEST". Labin.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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