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EuroBasket 1939

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The 1939 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1939, was the third FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. [1]

61 relations: Aleksandrs Vanags, Alfrēds Krauklis, Antanas Smetona, Artūras Andrulis, Artur Amon, Baltic Cup (football), Basketball, Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Erich Altosaar, Estonia men's national basketball team, Eugenijus Nikolskis, EuroBasket, EuroBasket 1937, EuroBasket 1941, Evald Mahl, Ewaryst Łój, Feliksas Kriaučiūnas, Fernand Prudhomme, FIBA, FIBA Europe, Florian Grzechowiak, France national basketball team, Frank Lubin, Germany national basketball team, Gold medal, Great Britain men's national basketball team, Heino Veskila, Herbert Niiler, Hungary national basketball team, Italy national basketball team, Kaunas Sports Hall, Latvia national basketball team, Leonas Baltrūnas, Leonas Petrauskas, Lithuania, Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuanian litas, Maksis Kazāks, Metre, Mindaugas Šliūpas, Mykolas Ruzgys, Paweł Stok, Poland national basketball team, Pranas Mažeika, Robert Busnel, Robert Cohu, Tarpaulin, Teodors Grīnbergs, Turkey national basketball team, ..., United States, United States men's national basketball team, Valdemārs Baumanis, Visvaldis Melderis, Vytautas Budriūnas, Vytautas Lesčinskas, Vytautas Norkus, Walenty Kłyszejko, World War II, Zdzisław Kasprzak, Zenonas Puzinauskas. Expand index (11 more) »

Aleksandrs Vanags

Aleksandrs Vanags (21 March 1919 – 1986), aka Alexandre Vanags, was a Latvian football and basketball player.

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Alfrēds Krauklis

Alfrēds Krauklis (8 December 1911 – 20 November 1991 in Riga) is a former Latvian basketball player and coach, one of the Latvian national basketball team (Latvian: Latvijas basketbola izlase) leaders in 1930’s, and winner of silver medal in FIBA EuroBasket 1939.

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Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona (10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II.

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Artūras Andrulis

Artūras Andrulis (Americanized his name as Adolfas Andrulis; April 10, 1922 – July 3, 1981) was a soldier and Lithuanian basketball player.

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Artur Amon

Artur Amon (17 February 1916 – August 1944) was an Estonian basketball player.

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Baltic Cup (football)

The Baltic Cup (Balti turniir, Baltijas kauss, Baltijos taurė) is an international football competition contested by the national teams of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport as an official medal event.

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Darius and Girėnas Stadium

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Erich Altosaar

Erich Altosaar (14 August 1908 – 11 October 1941) was an Estonian basketball player.

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Estonia men's national basketball team

The Estonia men's national basketball team represents Estonia in international basketball competitions and is controlled by the Estonian Basketball Association (Eesti Korvpalliliit).

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Eugenijus Nikolskis

Eugenijus Nikolskis (1917 – ?) was a Lithuanian basketball and table tennis player.

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EuroBasket

EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested biannually, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the European zone within the International Basketball Federation.

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EuroBasket 1937

The 1937 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1937, was the second FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.

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EuroBasket 1941

The 1941 FIBA European Championship, commonly called EuroBasket 1941, was a planned basketball competition in Lithuania.

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Evald Mahl

Evald Mahl (14 April 1915 – 18 January 2001) was an Estonian basketball player.

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Ewaryst Łój

Ewaryst Antoni Łój (August 30, 1912 – July 4, 1973) was a Polish basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Feliksas Kriaučiūnas

Feliksas Kriaučiūnas (Americanized his name as Phil Krause; born August 18, 1911 – October 28, 1977) was a Lithuanian American basketball player and coach.

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Fernand Prudhomme

Fernand Prudhomme (born 3 July 1916, date of death unknown) was a French basketball player.

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FIBA

The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA, FIBA World, or FIBA International, from its French name Fédération internationale de basket-ball, is an association of national organizations which governs international competition in basketball.

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FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe is a zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which includes all 50 national European basketball federations.

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Florian Grzechowiak

Florian Grzechowiak (June 7, 1914 in Bottrop, Germany – July 24, 1972 in Poznań) was a Polish basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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France national basketball team

The French national basketball team is administered by the Fédération Française de Basket-Ball (French Basketball Federation).

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Frank Lubin

Frank John Lubin (Pranas Jonas Lubinas; January 7, 1910 – July 8, 1999) was a Lithuanian American basketball player.

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Germany national basketball team

The Germany national basketball team is organized and run by the German Basketball Federation.

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Gold medal

A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field.

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Great Britain men's national basketball team

The Great Britain men's national basketball team, known as Great Britain or GB, is the national team for Great Britain in basketball.

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Heino Veskila

Heino Veskila (14 December 1918 – 22 July 1941) was an Estonian basketball player who played for Tartu Kalev, Tartu EASK and Tartu Dünamo.

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Herbert Niiler

Herbert Niiler (27 April 1905 – 13 April 1982) was an Estonian American basketball player and coach.

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Hungary national basketball team

The Hungarian national basketball team had its best years in between the 1940s and the 1960s, when it won several medals at the continental stage and qualified for the Summer Olympics on four out of five occasions.

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Italy national basketball team

The Italian national basketball team (Nazionale di pallacanestro dell'Italia) is administered by the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro (Italian Basketball Federation).

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Kaunas Sports Hall

Kaunas Sports Hall (Kauno sporto halė), also known as the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Hall is the second largest arena of Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Latvia national basketball team

The Latvian national basketball team (Latvijas basketbola izlase) had a remarkable success during the inter-war period, being the smallest in population nation to win the EuroBasket.

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Leonas Baltrūnas

Leonas Baltrūnas (October 20, 1914 – April 20, 1993) was a Lithuanian basketball player and coach.

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Leonas Petrauskas

Leonas Eugenijus Petrauskas (1919 – 18 July 1994) was a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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Lithuania men's national basketball team

The Lithuania men's national basketball team (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinė vyrų krepšinio rinktinė) participates in FIBA's competitions.

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Lithuanian litas

The Lithuanian litas (ISO currency code LTL, symbolized as Lt; plural litai (nominative) or litų (genitive)) was the currency of Lithuania, until 1 January 2015, when it was replaced by the euro.

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Maksis Kazāks

Maksis Kazāks (10 May 1912 – 19 June 1983) was a Latvian basketball player.

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Metre

The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).

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Mindaugas Šliūpas

Mindaugas Šliūpas (born 1919) was a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Mykolas Ruzgys

Mykolas Ruzgys (born January 15, 1915) is a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Paweł Stok

Paweł Stanisław Stok (22 March 1913 in Tarnopol – 18 August 1993 in Kraków) was a Polish basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Poland national basketball team

The Polish national basketball team is administered by the Polski Związek Koszykówki (Polish Basketball Association).

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Pranas Mažeika

Pranas Mažeika (1917 in Beloretsk, Bashkortostan – 2010 in USA) was a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Robert Busnel

Robert Busnel (September 19, 1914 in Toulon, France – March 15, 1991 in France) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator.

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Robert Cohu

Robert Cohu (20 August 1911 – 21 January 2011) was a French basketball player.

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Tarpaulin

A tarpaulin, or tarp, is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene.

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Teodors Grīnbergs

Teodors Grīnbergs (2 April 1870 - 14 June 1962) was a Latvian prelate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and the first Archbishop of Riga from 1932 until his forced resignation due to exile in 1944.

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Turkey national basketball team

The Turkey national basketball team is nicknamed "12 Dev Adam", meaning 12 Giant Men.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States men's national basketball team

The USA Basketball Men's National Team, commonly known as the United States Men's National Basketball Team, is the leading and most successful team in international competition, winning medals in seventeen Olympic tournaments, coming away with fifteen golds.

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Valdemārs Baumanis

Valdemārs Kristaps Baumanis (19 April 1905 – 24 April 1992) was a Latvian basketball player, basketball and football coach.

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Visvaldis Melderis

Visvaldis Melderis (19 January 1915 – 14 July 1944) was a Latvian basketball player.

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Vytautas Budriūnas

Vytautas Budriūnas (Americanized his name as Walter "Whitey" Budrun; born December 19, 1908; died June 28, 2003) was a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Vytautas Lesčinskas

Vytautas Lesčinskas (born 1922) was a Lithuanian basketball player.

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Vytautas Norkus

Vytautas Norkus (28 January 1921 – 29 January 2014) was a Lithuanian-born American basketball player.

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Walenty Kłyszejko

Walenty Kłyszejko (Estonian: Valentin Klõšeiko, Russian: Валентин Клышейко) (2 December 1909 in Saint Petersburg, Russia – 20 August 1987 in Warsawa) was an Estonian–Polish basketball player and later a coach, as well as a professor at the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zdzisław Kasprzak

Zdzisław Kasprzak (December 16, 1910 in Poznań – August 5, 1971 in Poznań) was a Polish basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Zenonas Puzinauskas

Zenonas Puzinauskas; March 4, 1920 – July 16, 1995) was a Lithuanian basketball player. He won two gold medals with the Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroBasket_1939

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