The Green Grasses of Slovenian Athletics Quiz

Answer: Track & Field

Silver medalist at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. She won in the 100m Hurdles. Born May 21, 1970, Bukovec competed on the international stage from 1988-1999, including two Olympic Games. She had a personal best time with 12.59 seconds during her silver medal-winning performance.

Answer: Shooting

Gold medalist in the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. That was for the 50-meter rifle in 3 positions, he was also a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing, China games in the same event. In 2012 at the London, England games he earned a bronze medal in the 50-meter rifle, prone position. He participated in eight Olympic games in all (1984-88-92-96-2000-04-08-12).

Answer: Hammer Throw

Gold medalist at the 2008 games in Beijing, China. He also took a silver at the 2012 games in London, England in the same event. Hammer throw is a field event that involved putting a shot put in a bag and throwing it, it's somewhat a combination of the shot put and javelin events.

Answer: Biathlon

Silver medalist in the 2018 games Pyeongchang, China. He also won a bronze medal in the 10 km sprint skiing event at th2 2010 games, but he was representing Croatia at the time. It was shortly after the 2010 games that he changed his citizenship to Slovenia and began competing for his new country.

Answer: Biathlon

Bronze medalist in the 2014 Sochi, Russia games. She competed in the 2010 games as well, but failed to medal. Years after the 2019 games, her urine samples were found to have tested possible for human growth hormones, meaning she was technically disqualified from her 9th place finish.

Answer: Alpine skiing

She took silver medals in the Women's giant slalom, and the Women's Super-G at the 2010 games in Vancouver, Canada. She also won gold medals in Women's downhill and Women's giant slalom at the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia.

Answer: Snowboarding

He won a bronze in both the Pyeongchang and Sochi games in the Men's parallel giant slalom. He also won a silver medal in Pyeongchang for the parallel slalom.

Answer: Football

Srečko Katanec, and Marko Elsner were both on the bronze medal winning team that played under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia team. Once that country broke up, the medal winners from those teams have traditionally been credited based on where they were born in the non-unified country.

Hence Katanec and Elsner were credited as Slovenia medal winners for their role on the 1984 team that played in Los Angeles, California.

Answer: Ski Jumping

Debelak was on the silver medal winning Team large hill in the 1987 games in Calgary, Canada. At the same games, he won a bronze medal for Large hill individual jumping. Debelak's best finish at the Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the individual normal hill in 1989. He retired in 1990.

Answer: Alpine skiing

Silver medalist in the Men's giant slalom event at the 1984 games in Sarejavo, Yugoslavia, which later become Slovenia after the country split up. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 games, but is listed as a Slovenian athlete in that countries records.