Jasna Fazlić

Jasna Fazlić ( Lupulesku - Reed, born December 20, 1970 in Foca ) is a former Yugoslav table tennis player. They won the European Championship in double and mixed doubles.

Youth

Jasna Fazlić began as a seven year old with the table tennis. In 1982, she teamed up with her sister Amela at the club Mladost Zagreb. In the European Youth Championships in 1987 she won bronze in the girls' class in singles and doubles, with the team she won silver. A year later it secured with the girls team European Championship gold.

Adult

National Championships

15 years old won the Yugoslav Fazlić Ladies Championship in singles and doubles (with Mirela Sikoronca ). In the following years she won several medals in this competition yet.

After their emigration and naturalization in the United States in 1996, she won from 2001 to 2003 in each case the American national championship in a double well as 2003 and 2006 in singles.

World Championships

Fazlić participated in 10 World Cups, from 1987 to 1995 five times for Yugoslavia, and from 2001 to 2006 five times for the United States.

European

In 1988 she won the European Mixed with Ilija Lupulesku, 1992, she won gold in doubles with Gordana Perkučin. In single it reached in 1988 and 1992, the quarter-finals.

Olympic games

At the 1988 Olympic Games she won the bronze medal together with Gordana Perkučin. In 1992, she appeared again on Yugoslavia, 2000 and 2004, she played under the flag of the United States.

Clubs

Private

Jasna Fazlić still has an older sister Amela, who was also national player and took in the 1981 World Cup. From 1992 to 1996 she was married to Ilija Lupulesku. During this time they played under the name Jasna Lupulesku. After her divorce, she took first again the name Fazlić, later named Reed (after her then-boyfriend, the U.S. table tennis national player Barney Reed ).

In the U.S., she studied and worked from 2002 as a high school teacher of history, geography, politics and economics. In August 2009 she married William H. Rather and occurs since under the name Jasna Rather.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

• Player Profile Jasna Reed
• Interview ( English) ( accessed on 29 November 2013 Web Archive )
• Rahul Nelson: Would the lady just not as lazy magazine DTS, 1987/12 p.9!
• Zdenko Uzorinac: She has a golden hand and mind of her own: Jasna Fazlic, magazine DTS, 1989/10 p.34 -36
• Portrait ( accessed 23 October 2010 )