Lionel Price (6 February 1927 – 10 January 2019) was a
British
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basketball
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player who competed in the
1948 Summer Olympics
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. Born in the
Marylebone
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area of
London's West End
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, he, at age 21, became the youngest member of the British basketball team, which finished twentieth in the
Olympic tournament.
References
External links
Lionel Price's profile at the British Olympic Association*
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1927 births
2019 deaths
British men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players of Great Britain
Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
People from Marylebone
Basketball players from Greater London
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