Matija Ljubek has won a fair number of olympic medals in kayak. Regarding collective sports basketball is very popular. Our basketball, waterpolo and handball teams were in some periods among the best teams in the world. They won many gold medals on the Olympic and World championships. Mladost-Zagreb is the most successful waterpolo club in the world, with the greatest number of world's and European trophies in its hands.
Football is of course the most widespread sport.
Thus Croatian team became the greatest surprise of the Championship. Mirjana Lucic has won the 1998 Australian Tournament in doubles at the age of 15, together with the current world champion Martina Hingis. A trainer of the German Davis Cup representation is Nikola Pilic . The tournaments gathered the best table tennis players of the world. Many Croatian sportsmen, trainers and others are well known throughout Europe.