Trajko Rajković

Trajko Rajković
Rajković with Yugoslavia at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Personal information
Born (1937-12-07)7 December 1937
Leskovac, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died 27 May 1970(1970-05-27) (aged 32)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Yugoslav
Listed height 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)
Listed weight 96 kg (212 lb)
Career information
Playing career 1959–1970
Position Center
Career history
1959–1967 OKK Beograd
1967–1968 Libertas Livorno (Fargas)
1968–1969 Reyer Venezia (Noalex)
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico City Team
FIBA World Cup
1963 Rio de Janeiro Team
1970 Ljubljana Team
EuroBasket
1963 Poland Team
1965 Russia Team
1969 Italy Team

Trajko Rajković (Serbian Cyrillic: Трајко Рајковић; December 7, 1937 – May 27, 1970) was a Yugoslavian professional basketball player.

Basketball career

Club career

Rajković played for OKK Beograd, during their so-called "Golden Era", in the late 1950s, and first half of the 1960s, in the Yugoslav First League. Some of his teammates were: Radivoj Korać, Miodrag Nikolić, Bogomir Rajković, Slobodan Gordić and, Milorad Erkić. OKK Beograd's head coaches during that time were, Borislav Stanković and Aleksandar Nikolić, and the club's sports director at the time was Radomir Šaper. In that period, the club won three Yugoslav League championships, and two Yugoslav Cups.

Rajković went to Italy in 1967, where he played two seasons, with Libertas Livorno and Reyer Venezia, of the Lega Basket Serie A.[1] Rajković was the best scorer of the Italian League's 1967– 68 season, with 521 total points scored.

National team career

Rajković played with the senior Yugoslavian national basketball team, from 1963 to 1970. During his senior national team career, Yugoslavia won two EuroBasket silver medals (1965 and 1969), and one bronze medal (1963). They also won an Olympics silver medal (1968), in Mexico City. He also won a FIBA World Cup silver medal (1963), and a gold medal (1970, in Ljubljana, Slovenia). He played in a total of 113 games with the senior Yugoslav national team.

Personal life

Rajković died in his sleep, on May 28th 1970, just four days after winning the first FIBA World Cup gold medal of Yugoslavia, on Sunday, May 24th, at the 1970 FIBA World Championship. He had a wife, Biljana, and a son, Vladimir.[1]

Career achievements

References

  1. 1 2 Rajkovic Profile at OKK Beograd website (in Serbian)
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