Borislava Perić
Serbian table tennis player
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Borislava Perić-Ranković (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислава Перић-Ранковић; born 16 June 1972) is a disabled Serbian table tennis player.[1] She represented Serbia at the 2008,[2] 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in table tennis, winning one gold and three silver medals.[3] She competes in the disability class 4. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the individual class 4 competition, defeating China's Zhang Miao in the finals.[4] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal.[5]
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's table tennis | ||
Representing  Serbia | ||
| Paralympic Games | ||
 | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Individual class 4 |
 | 2008 Beijing | Individual class 4 |
| 2012 London | Individual class 4 |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Teams class 4-5 |
| 2024 Paris | Individual class C4 |
| 2024 Paris | Doubles WD10 |
| World Para Table Tennis Championships | ||
| 2014 Beijing | Teams class 4 |
| 2010 Gwangju | Teams class 4 |
 | 2014 Beijing | Singles class 4 |
| 2010 Gwangju | Singles class 4 |
Life
Perić-Ranković was born in Bečej in 1972. She had a workplace accident in 1994, sustaining spinal cord injuries. She has used a wheelchair ever since. She began training table tennis in 2002, and moved to Novi Sad in 2006 to train with trainer Zlatko Kesler.[6]
She has won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 2010 and 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships.[1]
In 2015, Perić-Ranković received ITTF Star Award for female para table tennis player of the year.[7]
Parliamentarian
In the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) reserved many of the lead positions on its Together We Can Do Everything electoral list for non-party cultural figures and academics.[8] Perić-Ranković was given the seventh position on the list; this was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 250 mandates.[9]
She is a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction and a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society.[10]
