Anita and Marina Banović, Maja Golub and Sandra Parlov won gold at an international meet in Novo Mesto, with a time of 45:34 seconds, and in so doing improved the six year old Croatian record by 27 hundredths of a second. The Croatian sprinters won ahead of the Slovenian relay team, which had legendary Merlene Ottey among its sprinters.
Sanja Jovanović won her second gold, winning the 50-metre backstroke with a time of 29:16. The biggest winner of the competition was, however, 23-year-old Anja Trišić from the Zagreb Swimming Club, who garnered a total of six gold medals.
Croatian wildwater canoeist Emil Milihram is the overall winner of the Wildwater World Cup after winning the classic in Lofer, Austria. In the classic long race, Milihram, a native of Varaždin, was faster than Ondrej Rolenc of the Czech Republic and another Croatian representative, Tomislav Lepan, who finished third.
The Croatian quadruple sculls rowing team has won the second regatta of the World Rowing Cup in Munich. The team of David Šain, Martin Sinković, Damir Martin and Valent Sinković led the final heat from start to finish.
