Records & achievements

The club has produced national champions and international competitors — especially in the Optimist class — and hosts national championships.

• Nina Marušić

  Bronze in the girls' fleet and 15th overall at the 2024 Optimist World Championship (Mar del Plata, Argentina); 4th with the Croatian team in team racing. She took her first steps at Zvir with coach Bepo, and is now the Croatian ILCA 4 champion.

• Marta Tudor

  Croatian champion in the youngest category (2018) and third in ILCA 4 (2025). Like Nina, she took her first steps at Zvir with coach Bepo before moving to SC Split.

• Roko Vekić

  Member of the Croatian national team at the 2015 Optimist World Championship in Poland.

• Bojan Ive · Vedran Grga Ive

  The club's most decorated sailors, who went on to SC Split. Optimist team world champions with Croatia in 2000 (A Coruña); at the 1999 European Championship Vedran finished ninth and Bojan tenth. Bojan was Croatian Optimist champion (2001) and finished 11th at the Laser 4.7 World Championship (Çeşme, 2003) after long being in medal contention. Vedran, a long-time Croatian Optimist international, now coaches Zvir's young Optimist sailors.

• Leo Maljković

  Croatian National Champion, back in the former Yugoslavia era.

Through the years

1. 2026.Antonio Žuvela 3rd overall at the Dubrovnik criterium regatta; Niko Kovačević 3rd overall and 2nd among the boys at the Croatian U12 Optimist Championship (Pula).
2. 2025./26.Marta Kovačević 3rd among the girls in the Croatian U12 Optimist Cup.
3. 2025.Three Zvir Optimist sailors (Antonio Žuvela, Mladen Makjanić, Bepo Žuvela) made the top-80 list for the national-team selection regattas.
4. 2024.Antonio Žuvela won the Quantum Winter Cup in Split (U12), with a string of podiums at criterium and selection regattas.
5. 2023.Nina Marušić on the national team for a third year: gold fleet at the European Championship (Thessaloniki) and 4th with Croatia at the European Team Racing Championship (Loosdrecht). Nura Bićanić raced the ILCA 6 European Championship (Gdynia).
6. 2022.Nina Marušić Croatian champion and winner of the Croatian Cup (girls); 21st at the European Championship (Sønderborg) and 7th with Croatia in team racing (Ledro). The cruiser “Filip” (skipper Ante Ćesić) 2nd at the Croatian ORC Championship and winner of the CRO ORC D-Marin Cup in Zadar. Nura Bićanić 4th in the 2022 EurILCA Europa Cup ranking in ILCA 6.
7. 2021.Nina Marušić selected for the Croatian team at the Optimist European Championship.
8. 2019./20.Nina Marušić wins the Croatian Cup (girls U12) and is 2nd among all girls; Zvir 2nd in the Croatian Cup club ranking. Nina receives the City of Hvar award for 2020.
9. 2018./19.Nina Marušić wins the Croatian Cup (girls U12). A 28-trophy season — Nina, Marta Tudor, Danica Vučetić and Nikola Karković are the first Zvir sailors officially honoured by the City of Hvar.
10. 2018.Marta Tudor 1st in U10 and 2nd in U12 at the Croatian Championship (Stari Grad).
11. 2014./15.Roko Vekić 6th at the Croatian Championship and 5th Optimist in Croatia on the ranking list — his route to the 2015 World Championship team.
12. 2000.The brothers Bojan and Vedran Grga Ive, who started sailing at Zvir, win the Optimist World Championship team title with Croatia (A Coruña, Spain); Bojan is 11th individually.
13. 1999.Optimist European Championship (Mati, Greece): Vedran Grga Ive ninth and Bojan Ive tenth, with four race wins.

The competitors who brought the club the most renown are the brothers Vedran Grga Ive and Bojan Ive, who started sailing at Zvir and went on to continue their careers at JK Split. Sailing for Croatia, they won the Optimist World Championship team title in 2000 (A Coruña, Spain). Bojan was Croatian Optimist champion in 2001 and 11th at the 2000 Worlds, and at the 1999 European Championship in Greece Vedran finished ninth and Bojan tenth. The older generation deserves a mention too: Dario Nižetić, Nikola Carić, Josipa Komazin, Iva Foretić, Margita Buzolić, Marjam and Tonin Tudor, Janine Vučetić and Zorica Guliemi. Many girls have proved that island women know how to treasure the sea.