Zoran Kosanović

Zoran Kosanović
Full name Zoran Kosanović
Nationality  Yugoslavia
 Canada
Born (1956-01-16)January 16, 1956
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Died February 4, 1998(1998-02-04) (aged 42)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Playing style Left-handed all-round player

Zoran Kosanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Косановић; January 16, 1956 – February 4, 1998) was a Serbian Canadian table tennis player.[1]

Career

Career in Yugoslavia

Kosanović represented Yugoslavia in all five world championships from 1973 to 1981 (in 1975, he won silver medal at the World Championship. In 1976, he was European Champion in Prague. With his doubles partner Milivoj Karakašević, he reached the European Championship semifinal in 1978.[2]

In the Balkan Championships, he won 11 titles. From 1975 to 1979, he was the Yugoslav champion five times. His highest ranking in the ITTF World Ranking was 7th place.[3]

Career in Canada

In September 1979, Kosanović moved to Toronto. In 1981, he won the North American Championship and in 1982 the US Open. At the 1983 World Championship in Tokyo, he represented Canada.

In 1998, Kosanović collapsed while taking part in a recreational soccer match and died of a heart attack. He is interred in Toronto's York Cemetery.

Personal

Kosanović married in the early 1980s and had two children: son Saša and daughter Tanja.[4]

References

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