Borislava Perić

Borislava Perić-Ranković

Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Serbia
Paralympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual class 4
2016 Rio de Janeiro Teams class 4-5
2008 Beijing Individual class 4
2012 London Individual class 4
World Para Table Tennis Championships
2014 Beijing Teams class 4
2010 Gwangju Teams class 4
2014 Beijing Singles class 4
2010 Gwangju Singles class 4

Borislava Perić-Ranković (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислава Перић-Ранковић, born 16 June 1972) is a disabled Serbian table tennis player.[1]

Perić-Ranković was born in Bečej in 1972. She had a workplace accident in 1994, sustaining spinal cord injuries. She has been bound to wheelchair ever since. She began training table tennis in 2002, and moved to Novi Sad in 2006 to train with trainer Zlatko Kesler.[2]

She represented Serbia at the 2008,[3] 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in table tennis, winning one gold and three silver medals. 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] She has also 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.[5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
  2. ↑ "Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe". Top Srbija. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  3. ↑ The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "POI: Borislava zlatna u Riju, Nada bronzana!" (in Serbian). N1. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars". ITTF. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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