Svetlana Kitić

Svetlana Kitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Китић, born June 7, 1960 in Tuzla, SR Bosnia-Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia, and was part of the Bosnian national team in the early 2000s.

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• Champions cup finals handball radni ki beograd bayer leverkusen svetlana kiti
• H4all 2012 SVETLANA KITIC Special guest
• Personal life
• References

Late in her career Kitić returned to her homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, and simultaneously coached and played for Sarajevo based handball club Željezničar and later for Jedinstvo, club from her hometown Tuzla and where she started professional career in handball as 16-year-old girl. It is interesting regarding Jedinstvo from Tuzla is that she played together with her oldest daughter Mara Kitić on Jedinstvo's first team. In 2002 she entered Bosnian women's national handball team which took part in qualifications for 2003 World Championship in Zagreb. Bosnia with Kitić reached the barrage but failed to qualify. After that Kitić took the role of Director of Bosnian women's national handball team and served between 2006 and 2008.

She currently plays for Radnički in Belgrade, Serbia. Svetlana lives in Belgrade with her family.

In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 29 goals. Four years later she won the gold medal as member of the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 22 goals. In all her representative career she played 202 matches and scored the incredible number of 911 goals. She was voted World Player of the Year 1988 by the International Handball Federation.

In 2010, she was voted the best female handball player ever by the International Handball Federation. That same year she won the Oscar Of Popularity The Personality of the Year in Serbia.