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Luka Dončić. The highest level of basketball in Slovenia is the Slovenian Basketball League. [3] The Slovenia national basketball team has appeared in four FIBA World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014 and 2023) and fourteen EuroBasket tournaments, highlighted by a fourth-place finish in 2009 and the gold medal in 2017.
The most successful sport for Slovenia at the Summer Olympics is judo with seven medals (three gold) while the most successful sport at the Winter Olympics is alpine skiing with eight medals (two gold). In team sports, the men's national teams have participated four times in handball, twice in ice hockey, and once each in basketball and volleyball.
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Šport TV (English: Sport TV) is Slovenia's first sport-only television channel. Based in the country's capital, Ljubljana. Television was launched on October 14, 2006. Miro Ćorić is editor-in-chief, Marko Bogovac is general manager.
Slovenia entered three sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Janja Garnbret qualified directly for the women's boulder & lead combined event, by winning the gold medal and securing one of the three berths at the 2023 IFSC World Championships in Bern , Switzerland . [ 21 ]
Nogometni klub Olimpija Ljubljana (Slovene pronunciation: [nɔɡɔˈméːtni ˈklúːp ɔˈlìːmpija ljubˈljàːna]; English: Olimpija Ljubljana Football Club), commonly referred to as Olimpija Ljubljana or simply Olimpija, is a Slovenian professional football club based in Ljubljana that competes in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the top division of the Slovenian football league system.
Other venues where Slovenia played at least one home match are the Bonifika Stadium in Koper, Fazanerija City Stadium in Murska Sobota, Domžale Sports Park in Domžale, Nova Gorica Sports Park in Nova Gorica, Stanko Mlakar Stadium in Kranj, and ŽŠD Ljubljana Stadium in Ljubljana. [107]
Since being part of Austria-Hungary, football came to the territories that are today part of Slovenia in the late 19th century from Vienna.The first football club was founded in 1900 by the German minority in Ljubljana, the Laibacher Sportverein. [3]