About Božo Grkinić
Božo Grkinić, 82, Yugoslav water polo and basketball player, coach, and Olympian (1948).
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|Božo Grkinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Божо Гркинић; November 17, 1913 – February 3, 1996) was Yugoslav water polo and basketball player and coach. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national water polo team and Yugoslavia national basketball team.
Water polo career
Grkinić competed with the national water polo team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He was given the honour to carry the national flag of Yugoslavia at the opening ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics, becoming the sixth water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
Basketball career
Grkinić was the first head coach of Partizan who coached them for two seasons, in 1945 and 1946 Yugoslav Basketball League.
As a player for the national basketball team Grkinić participated in 1947 European Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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