Borislava Perić Explained

Borislava Perić-Ranković (Serbian: 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]

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 and References

  1. http://www.ipttc.org/players/women/borislava_peric/index.htm ITTF Paralympic Table Tennis
  2. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/BIO/Athlete/3/1211193.shtml The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
  3. Web site: Borislava Peric-Rankovic - Table Tennis | Paralympic Athlete Profile . 14 September 2021 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  4. Web site: 12 September 2016 . POI: Borislava zlatna u Riju, Nada bronzana! . . Serbian . 17 September 2016 . 18 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160918090139/http://rs.n1info.com/a192791/Sport-Klub/Ostali-sportovi/POI-Borislava-zlatna-u-Riju-Nada-bronzana.html . dead.
  5. Web site: Table Tennis: PERIC RANKOVIC, Borislava . live . 14 September 2021 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . . en-us . https://web.archive.org/web/20210914205437/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/athlete-profile-n1727365-peric-rankovic-borislava.htm . 14 September 2021.
  6. Web site: Borislava Perić Ranković: Rođena kao pobednik, rešena da uspe . Top Srbija . 23 April 2016 . 17 September 2016.
  7. Web site: Ma Long & Liu Shiwen are the 2015 Male & Female Table Tennis Stars . ITTF . 9 December 2015 . 19 September 2016.
  8. https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/ovako-vucic-kroji-vrh-izborne-liste-sns-sta-naprednjacima-donose-danica-grujicic-i/1xdqge0 "OVAKO VUČIĆ KROJI VRH IZBORNE LISTE SNS"
  9. https://www.danas.rs/vesti/politika/izbori22/ko-su-kandidati-sns-za-narodne-poslanike/ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?"
  10. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/BORISLAVA_PERIC+-+RANKOVIC.1185.488.html BORISLAVA PERIC - RANKOVIC