Borislava Perić

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]

Borislava Perić-Ranković

Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Serbia
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de JaneiroIndividual class 4
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de JaneiroTeams class 4-5
Silver medal – second place2008 BeijingIndividual class 4
Silver medal – second place2012 LondonIndividual class 4
World Para Table Tennis Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 BeijingTeams class 4
Silver medal – second place2010 GwangjuTeams class 4
Bronze medal – third place2014 BeijingSingles class 4
Bronze medal – third place2010 GwangjuSingles class 4

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]

Perić-Ranković will appear on the Together We Can Do Everything ballot list for the 2022 general election, as an independent candidate.[8]

Notes
  1. ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
  2. The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Borislava Peric-Rankovic - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  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. "Table Tennis PERIC RANKOVIC Borislava - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". .. Archived from the original on 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  6. "Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe". Top Srbija. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. "Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars". ITTF. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. "Lazar Ristovski i dr Danica Grujičić - neke od nestranačkih ličnosti na listi SNS". www.021.rs (in Serbian). 2022-02-06. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
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