Rauno Pehka (born January 1, 1969) is a retired Estonian professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player who played mostly at the point guard position. He won the Soviet Union league championship in 1991 as a member of the Tallinn Kalev basketball team. Pehka mostly played in Estonia. After retiring Rauno Pehka has been working as a national teams' youth coach.

International career

Besides competing in the highest level of Estonian basketball, Rauno Pehka has played in Belgium for

BC Oostende Basketball Club Oostende, for sponsorship reasons Filou Oostende, is a Belgian professional basketball team. The club is based in Ostend and was founded in 1970. The club competes domestically in the BNXT League and internationally in the Basket ...

, in Israel for

Ironi Ramat Gan Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan ( he, מכבי עירוני רמת גן, formerly Ironi Ramat Gan) is a male basketball club based in Ramat Gan in central Israel. The team plays in Liga Leumit, the second division in Israeli basketball. It plays at the Sha ...

and in Latvia for

Rīgas ASK Rīgas Armijas Sporta Klubs was a professional basketball club that was based in Riga, Latvia. History Rīgas ASK was founded in 1931, and started playing in the Latvian Basketball Championship. In the years that Latvia was controlled by the Sovi ...

. With Estonian national team he competed in two EuroBasket competitions:

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. In 2008–2009 he was assistant coach of the

Estonia national basketball team Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...

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References

External links

Profile
at basket.ee

Books

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pehka, Rauno 1969 births Living people ASK Riga players Estonian men's basketball players Estonian expatriate basketball people in Belgium Estonian expatriate basketball people in Israel Estonian expatriate basketball people in Latvia Point guards BC Tallinn Kalev players People from Keila KK Kalev players Estonian basketball coaches