Dzidra Uztupe-Karamiševa ( ''née'' Uztupe; 2 May 1930 – 27 December 2014) was a Latvian basketball player and coach. During her career Uztupe-Karamiševa won three FIBA European Champions Cups and four

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titles. She represented the Soviet Union national team and won four

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tournaments.

Career

Uztupe was born on 2 May 1930 in Smiltene, Latvia, and spent her youth in the

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area of

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. She attended the Riga Secondary School No. 5 where she took up basketball, volleyball and track and field. She held the Latvian record in

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among girls and was the champion in both high jump and volleyball. Uztupe joined Daugava Riga in 1947 and played with the team until 1958. In 1958, she joined TTT Riga and served as the team's captain. She won the FIBA European Champions Cup three times and became a

champion in four consecutive seasons.

References

1930 births 2014 deaths Latvian Academy of Sport Education alumni Latvian women's basketball players {{Latvia-basketball-bio-stub