By winning the bronze medal at the FISU World University Championship Sailing in Split, Faculty of Engineering students and RITEH Sailing Team members, Lun Šanko and Antonio Lukšić, achieved an extraordinary sporting result competing as members of the Croatian team. Around 150 student-athletes representing 40 universities from 15 countries participated in the championship, and taking the bronze medal was a historic achievement – Croatia’s best-ever result at the World University Sailing Championships.
In recognition of this major success, the world bronze medalists were hosted at a formal reception at Banski Dvori on November 9 by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Andrej Plenković, and the Minister of Tourism and Sport, Tonči Glavina. On that occasion, the Prime Minister congratulated the students on their outstanding result and on promoting Croatia, emphasizing that the Government strongly supports the development of university sports and invests in sports infrastructure and better conditions for student-athletes.
We congratulate our students on this impressive result, a balance between academic excellence and top-level sport, and for representing the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Rijeka, and Croatian university sports so well on the world stage!
