Borislava Perić

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]

Borislava Perić-Ranković

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]