Duje Bonačić was a Croatian rower, born in Split on 10 April 1929 and died on 24 January 2020, who won a gold medal for Yugoslavia in the coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He graduated in natural sciences in Zagreb and took up rowing to build muscle, and after his competitive career he worked as a professor of geography, meteorology and oceanography at maritime schools and served as a coach and referee in rowing and sailing. After the death of Željko Čajkovski in November 2016 he became the oldest Croatian Olympic medal winner, and he died at the age of 90 after a short illness.
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