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Ivo Trumbić
	Trumbić in July 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal while coaching the Netherlands national team.
Personal information
Born	2 April 1935; Split, Littoral Banovina, Yugoslavia
Died	12 March 2021 (aged 85); Zagreb, Croatia
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	103 kg (227 lb)
Medal record
Men's water polo
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games

Ivo Trumbić (2 April 1935 – 12 March 2021) was a Croatian water polo player and Olympic medallist.^[1] He later went on to manage. Ivo Trumbić coached the Netherlands to a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, becoming one of the few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches.^[2]^[3]

Career

According to the Netherlands men's national water polo team, Trumbic was not only national coach of Orange in two periods, but he also worked as a coach and technical director for a long time at AC&PC from Amersfoort. The Croat, who conquered Olympic silver (1964) and gold (1968) as a water polo player with the former Yugoslavia.^[4]

Trumbic was inducted into the Swimming World's International Hall of Fame in 2015. The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation appointed him a member of merit in 2018, and in 2020 he received the Franjo Bučar Lifetime Achievement Award, Croatia's most important sports prize.^{[citation needed]}

Ivo Trumbic died on 12 March 2021 at the age of 85.^[4]