Jasna Kolar-Merdan

Jasna Kolar-Merdan was born in Bosnia and played handball for Yugoslavia at the 1980 Moskva (Moscow) Summer Olympics under her maiden name Merdan. She won a silver medal, and at Los Angeles four years later won a gold medal. With Yugoslavia Kolar-Merdan won 84 international caps and scored 419 goals. At the 1982 World Championships she won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia.

In 1985 Kolar-Merdan received Austrian citizenship and played for her new homeland at the Barcelona Olympics when the team finished fifth. In total, Kolar-Merdan won Austria 163 international caps and scored 1,206 goals. In 1990, she was named World Handball Player of the Year.

At club level, Kolar-Merdan played with ŽRK Lokomotiva Mostar in Yugoslavia and since 1984 with Hypo Niederösterreich in Austria, helping them to win the European Champions Cup four times in 1989-90, 1992-93. With Hypo Niederösterreich she also collected ten national titles and won the national cup four times.

In 1994 Kolar-Merdan started running a café in Maria Enzersdorf with her husband. She also became a handball coach with Union Korneudorf.