Jaak Lipso (born April 18, 1940) is a retired

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n professional

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player, who competed for the

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. He is the only Estonian basketball player who has won two medals at the Olympic Games. Lipso has also won two medals at the

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and he is a three-time Eurobasket champion with the

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. He was a member of the Soviet Union national team from 1961 to 1970. After his active career Lipso became a basketball coach.''Eesti Elulood.'' Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) , p. 252.

Club career

Lipso's career started at the age of 16 in 1956 when he joined TRÜ basketball team (now

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). He played there for four seasons winning two Soviet Estonian titles (1958, 1959). After that he played a season in

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in Soviet Latvia before moving to European powerhouse

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. He spent the next eight years in the team winning two Euroleague titles (

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, 1969) and six USSR League championship titles (1962–1966, 1969). Lipso then moved to Tallinna Kalev for two years and then to Harju KEK winning two more Soviet Estonian titles (1974, 1979).

Achievements

National Team

* Olympic Games:

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...

* World Championships:

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

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* European Championships:

, 1965,

Club

* Euroleague Championship:

, 1969 * Soviet Union League Championship: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969 * Estonian SSR Championship: 1958, 1959, 1971, 1974, 1979

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