Pavle Jurina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian handball player
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Place of Birth: Ledenik, Koška, Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia
About Pavle Jurina
- Pavle "Pavo" Jurina (2 January 1954 – 2 December 2011) was a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Jurina was born in Našice.
- Standing at 1.94 m, he debuted as a handball player with the local team RK NEXE Našice; in 1976 he moved to RK Partizan Bjelovar, winning the Yugoslav national championship in 1977 and 1979.
- In 1980 he was a member of the Yugoslav handball team which finished sixth in the handball Olympic tournament.
- He played all six matches and scored 33 goals.
- Jurina was elected three times as best Yugoslav playerFour years later he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal in the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
- He played all six matches and scored five goals.
- In 1984 he moved to Italy, where he played at Gaeta.
- In 1986/1987 Jurian played for German team TuS Schutterwald.
- Later he coached several Italian teams, including Gaeta, Città Sant'Angelo, Sassari and Alcamo. He died in 2011 for a cardiac malfunction.
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