Máximo Hugo Fjellerup (born November 25, 1997) is an Argentine professional
basketball
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player for Spanish club
Bàsquet Girona
Club Bàsquet Girona 2014 is a Spanish basketball club based in Girona, Catalonia, that was founded in 2014 by NBA player Marc Gasol.
History
The club was founded in 2014 by NBA player Marc Gasol, who previously played in CB Girona between 2006 an ...
of
Liga ACB. At a height of 1.98 m (6'6") tall, he plays at the
shooting guard and
small forward
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positions.
Professional career
In his pro career, Fjellerup has played in both the
2nd-tier South American League, and the
1st-tier FIBA Americas League
The FIBA Americas League ( Portuguese: ''FIBA Liga das Américas'', Spanish: ''FIBA Liga de las Américas''), officially abbreviated as the LDA, was the premier intercontinental basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the entire ...
.
National team career
Fjellerup has been a member of the senior
Argentine national team. With Argentina, he played at the
2017 FIBA AmeriCup, where he won a silver medal. In 2019, he took part in the team that won the
Pan American gold medal in Lima. He was included in the
Argentine squad for the
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup and clinched silver medal with Argentina which emerged as runners-up to Spain at the
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
In 2022, Fjellerup won the gold medal in the
2022 FIBA AmeriCup
The 2022 FIBA AmeriCup was the 19th edition of the FIBA AmeriCup, the main tournament for senior men's basketball national teams of the FIBA Americas. The tournament was played in Recife, Brazil, as Brasília was dropped as a second host city mont ...
held in
Recife
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, Brazil. He did not play for many minutes, but was one of the Argentine squad's
shooting guards
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in the tournament.
References
External links
Máximo Fjellerupat fiba.com
Máximo Fjellerupat latinbasket.com
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1997 births
Living people
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Argentine men's basketball players
Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Bàsquet Girona players
Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca basketball players
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
People from Tres Arroyos
San Lorenzo de Almagro (basketball) players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province