Bucar’s birthday is celebrated annually at the Croatian Sports Museum in Zagreb, with the COC and Croatian Olympic Academy collaborating to stage the event.

Held today, the event saw the Croatian Sports Museum and the Croatian Society of Olympic Philately and Memorabilia organise a permanent exhibition.

This features museum items and books which detail the legacy of Bucar, who died in 1946.

Bucar worked as a primary school teacher in the country’s capital city Zagreb, before a two-year spell working at the Central Gymnastics Institute in Stockholm.

He would return to Zagreb to organise a course for gymnastics coaches, especially for higher education school physical education teachers.

Bucar would then establish the Croatian Sports Association in 1909, before forming the Yugoslav Olympic Committee 10 years later.

The Croatian was also seen as having an important role in trying to have national sports included as International Federations, particularly when leading the Yugoslav Olympic Committee from 1919 to 1927.

Bucar was also a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1919 to 1946, while the COC celebrated his work in improving working conditions of teachers of physical education, and building and decorating halls and playgrounds.