Trophies, Awards and Recognitions
Two-time Golden Glove Winner 1967/1969
Eight-time Champion of Jugoslavia 1967 - 1974
Five-time Champion of the Balkans 1970 - 1974
Two-time Amateur Champion of Europe 1971/1973
Olympic Champion 1972
Amateur Champion of the World 1974
Professional Champion of Europe 1976
Professional WBC Champion of the World 1978
He was proclaimed:
Croatian Sportsman of the Year in 1971, 1972, 1973
Yugoslav Sportsman of the Year in 1971, 1972, 1974
Balkan Sportsman of the Year in 1974
Istrian Sportsman of the 20th Century (in 1999)
Croatian Sportsman of the 20th Century (in 2000)
In 2002 the Alley of the Best Croatian Athletes was opened in Jarun – Zagreb, along which there is the memorial plaque of Mate with his photo and the list of his greatest successes.
Since 2006 he has been a WBC Hall of Fame member.
In 2008 Mate Parlov Sports Centre in Pula was named after him while in the same year he was awarded a star on the Croatian Walk of Fame in Opatija.
In 2013 he was posthumously assigned the Order of Duke Branimir with necklace by the President of the Republic of Croatia.
In 2015 a street in Kajzerica in Zagreb was named after him as well as a street in Biograd na Moru. In 2021 a street in Zvezdara in Belgrade was named after him.
Forty years after he had won a gold medal on the Olympic games, the Promenade of Mate Parlov was opened in Fažana on September 10th, 2016. At the beginning of the promenade there is a memorial plaque of Mate with his photo and the list of his greatest successes. The promenade extends along the coast parallel to the alley where he lived.
On the 40th anniversary of his becoming WBC World Champion, a statue in his honour was unveiled in Fažana on January 7th, 2018. The statue is located on the entrance of the Promenade of Mate Parlov.
On November 25th, 2018, he was posthumously assigned Franjo Bučar State Award, the highest sports recognition that the Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary life achievements.
In 2020 a newly discovered species of underground spider in the caves of Biokovo was named Harpactea mateparlovi.
On May 3th, 2021, a statue in his honour was unveiled in Pula. The statue is located opposite his café “Mate” in Giardini within the Pula City Centre.
