Croatian-born Milan Neralić represented Austria at the 1900 Paris Olympic Games and won the bronze medal in the individual sabre fencing masters event. He is considered to be the first native Croatian at the Olympic Games. As a fencing master he was active in Vienna (until 1908) and then in Berlin. In 1914 he returned to Vienna.
Neralić’s teachers were Heinrich von Tenner and Rudolf Brosch. Neralić won several army fencing tournaments between 1899-1906. As a fencing master he trained prominent pupils such as Friedrich Karl, Prinz von Preußen and Richard Verderber, both Olympic medal winners in 1912. Neralić retired in 1917 due to illness and died the following year.
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