Danira Bilić is a retired Croatia

Croatia

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n basketball

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 player. As part of the Yugoslavian

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 women's team, she won a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She was European basketball's Most Valuable Player

Most Valuable Player

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 three times running, in 1988, 1989 and 1990. In 1991, she was awarded Croatia's highest national recognition for sports, the Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport

Franjo Bucar State Award for Sport

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Since retiring she has maintained an active involvement in sport, and is currently the Director of the Croatian Heritage Foundation

Croatian Heritage Foundation

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. In 2009 the International Olympic Committee

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 awarded her their "Women in Sports" European trophy.

She is also a politician

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, being a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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