Lithuania national basketball team - EuroBasket 1937 champions

Česlovas Daukša (born 1916) is a Lithuanian former

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player. He won gold medal with

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during

EuroBasket 1937 The 1937 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1937, was the second FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA. Eight national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) took pa ...

Biography

Daukša born in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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. After returning to

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with his parents, he graduated six classes in Kaunas Aušra gymnasium. Later he worked at "Spindulys" printing house. Despite playing

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from an early age, in 1935 he became a

player and in the same year, he debuted in

during painful loss to

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. After

Konstantinas Savickas Konstantinas Savickas (Americanized his name as Connie Savickas; October 14, 1908, Punsk – 1992, Chicago) was an American lawyer and Lithuanian basketball coach. He is often regarded as ''the father of Lithuanian basketball''. Biography In ...

began training Lithuania national team, Lithuania game play improved drastically. Daukša was a member of Lithuania national team during

and won gold medal with it. After

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, he worked at Republican Physical Education and Sport Committee and other sports organizations. He retired in 1987 and currently lives in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

, Lithuania.

Sources

* Vidas Mačiulis, Vytautas Gudelis. Halė, kurioje žaidė Lubinas ir Sabonis. 1939–1989 – Respublikinis sporto kombinatas, Kaunas, 1989 1916 births FIBA EuroBasket-winning players Lithuanian men's basketball players Possibly living people {{Lithuania-basketball-bio-stub