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

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

player who competed for the

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in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...

. 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 for 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