Justinas Lagunavičius (September 4, 1924 – July 15, 1997) was a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He trained at VSS Žalgiris 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 ...

. He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the Olympic silver medal in 1952. He played five matches.

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1924 births 1997 deaths Basketball players from Kaunas Lithuanian men's basketball players Soviet men's basketball players BC Žalgiris players Olympic basketball players of the Soviet Union Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union FIBA EuroBasket-winning players Olympic medalists in basketball Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Lithuanian Sports University alumni {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub