Stepas Butautas
Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stepas Butautas (alternate spellings: Stiepas, Butaustas) (25 August 1925 – 22 March 2001 in Kaunas) was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas.[1] He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal. During the tournament, he played in all eight games.[2]
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Born | (1925-08-25)25 August 1925 Kaunas, Lithuania |
Died | 22 March 2001(2001-03-22) (aged 75) Kaunas, Lithuania |
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Playing career | 1944–1956 |
Number | 4, 5, 14 |
Coaching career | 1958–1970 |
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1944 | Dinamo Kaunas |
1945 | ASK Kaunas |
1946 | Dinamo Kaunas |
1947–1956 | Žalgiris Kaunas |
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1955–1956 | Lithuania women |
1958–1964 | Soviet Union women |
1960–1966 | Politechnika Kaunas women |
1967–1968, 1970 | Cuba |
1975–1979 | Žalgiris Kaunas |
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He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.