Portrait of the female boxer Koka Cvijić SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Milanka Matić editor Nataša Mišković editor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:siba.4023 Borba fotodokumentacija, Belgrade Vreme Borba0023 Photoarchive Borba Social Personality Behavior Processes and Personality Personal Names Individuation and Mobility Postures Living Standards and Routines Athletic Sports Recreation Commercialized Sports Commercialized Entertainment Photographic plate 1928 Svetozar Grdijan Grdijan, Svetozar Upper body portrait of a young woman in a dark coat and a pilot's cap decorated with a small aeroplane badge and a light-coloured braided cord. She is smiling into the camera with her arms boldly folded and her head slightly turned to the left. The gender of the person on the picture is not evident and only clear in context. The photograph was published in the newspaper Vreme to illustrate an article by M. Savić about a boxing match between Koka Cvijić and Petar Savić. Fifteen-year-old Kosara Koka Cvijić was the first woman in Yugoslavia to win a mixed boxing match. The 'házená' (Czech handball) player won the amateur fight against young professional boxer Petar Savić in three rounds. The match attracted great public attention, even more so when Savić later claimed that it had only been a display and that he had let her win. Koka was known for dressing and behaving like a man. The badge on her cap was the emblem of the royal Yugoslav Aero Klub, 'Naša krila’ (Our wings). Not specified Not specified 90 130 Serbia Yugoslavia Belgrade Prva bokserka-pobednica, g-ca Koka Cvijić pozvala je pobedjenog g. Savića na nov meč. Vreme 2287, 13 March 1928, 5.
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