Category Archives: Sport

Slovenian Damir Skomina is recognised as the world’s best football referee 2019 according to a survey held by the International Institute of Football History and Statistics. The Institute survey involved experts from 90 countries. According to the results of the voting, the 43-year-old Skomina scored 136 points, thereby beating the winner of 2017 – German

Slovenian Maja Povšnar took third place at the European Open Championship in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which has recently ended in Rome. The Slovene performed in the category of up to 61.5 kg. Povšnar had previously won the high titles of the European champion and the world champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. At the end of November 2019,

From Thursday, 24 October to Saturday, 26 October 2019, the UAE hosted the Grand Prix series tournament, at which Slovenian judokas won three medals. Thus, on the first day of the Grand Prix series, Maruša Štangar received silver medal in the category of up to 48 kilograms. On the second day of the tournament, the

On Sunday, 27 October 2019, the largest track and field event of Slovenia – the 24 Ljubljana Marathon – will be held in Ljubljana. Almost 14 thousand participants will run at the distances of 10, 21 and 42 kilometres. About 2 thousand athletes will run a classic marathon. The day before, on Saturday, 26 October

“The heart was longing, the body didn’t give the way,” RTV Slovenija reporters describe the results of the European Volleyball Championship. On Sunday, 29 September 2019, in the final match, which took place in Paris at the Bercy Arena in the presence of 12,650 fans, Slovenes yielded the palm to the Serbian National Team (1:3).

Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič went down in history as the 60th winner of La Vuelta – the 3-week road bicycle racing in Spain. In the overall team standing, Slovenia became the 20th country in history to be the winner of the three-week races. According to their coach Andrej Hauptman, Primož Roglič proved to be an

The International Association of Professional Football Players (FIFPro) has announced a list of 55 candidates for the best squad in 2019. The largest number of candidates are from Barcelona (11) and the winner of the Champions League – Liverpool (4). The widest representation belongs to the English Premier League (21 players). The list of candidates

Slovenian judokas Tina Trstenjak and Ana Velenšek won gold and bronze medals at the World Cup Grand Prix tournament in Zagreb. The 2016 Olympic champion 28-year-old Tina Trstenjak (Z’dežele Sankaku club) confidently won in the weight category of up to 63 kilograms. In the final fight, she got the upper hand over the two-time Asian

The 18-year-old Slovene Klara Lukan won the 5,000-metre race at the European Athletics U20 Championships in the Swedish city of Borås. Her result was 16 minutes and 3.62 seconds. Thus, she set a new national record among juniors in the age category of up to 20 years. Klara Lukan is a native of Novo Mesto,

At the Paraclimbing World Championships in France, a native of Škofja Loka, Gregor Selak, has won a bronze medal for the third year in a row. Performing in the RP3 movement restriction category, Gregor Selak repeated his last year’s success in Innsbruck and the year before last – in Paris. It should be noted that