[3] Dolinar was champion of the Independent State of Croatia multiple times, and also competed for its national team on nine occasions.

[5] He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1949, and received a doctorate in 1959.

Dolinar was also head of the Sports Science Committee for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

A university professor in both Zagreb and Basel, Dolinar and his brother Boris were honored as the Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews during World War II.

[7] In 2016, Dolinar was inducted into the European Table Tennis Hall of Fame.