Mindaugas Šliūpas in 1939 | |||||||||||||||
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Born | 5 May 1919
[1] Kaunas, Lithuania | ||||||||||||||
Died | February 3, 1979[1] | (aged 59)||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mindaugas Šliūpas (1919–1979) was a Lithuanian basketball player. [3] He won gold medal with the Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1939. [4] He played one game against Finland and scored no points. [5]
He was a son of physician Rokas Šliūpas and nephew of activist Jonas Šliūpas. [6] After graduating from the Kaunas War School, he studied law at the Vytautas Magnus University. [7] On 15–22 April 1945, while World War II was still ongoing, the Soviet Union organized the 6th tournament of eight cities in Kaunas. [8] Šliūpas was the only team member who played in the EuroBasket 1939. [9] The Lithuanian team won all games except it tied with the Moscow team 25:25. [8] The Moscow team evened out the score after a being awarded questionable free throw and was declared the overall winner of the tournament based on the overall points scored during the tournament. [9] After the tournament, several Lithuanian basketball players, including Šliūpas, Vincas Sercevičius, Stasys Šačkus, Vilius Variakojis, were arrested and deported to Gulag camps. [9] Šliūpas was arrested on 16 June 1945 and was imprisoned in a Dalstroy camp in the Magadan Oblast. [10] He was released in 1956 and returned to Lithuania. [1] Upon his return, he worked in land improvement and drainage. [7]