Borislava_Perić

Borislava Perić

Borislava Perić

Serbian table tennis player

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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Life

Perić-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

In 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

  1. [1]
    ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
  2. [2]
    The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Borislava Peric-Rankovic - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. [4]
    "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.
  5. [5]
    "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.
  6. [6]
    "Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe". Top Srbija. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. [7]
    "Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars". ITTF. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. [8]
    "OVAKO VUČIĆ KROJI VRH IZBORNE LISTE SNS", Blic, 14 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  10. [10]
    BORISLAVA PERIC - RANKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2023.


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