Juozas Žukas

Jonas Juozas Žukas (October 29, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois - July 7, 1981)^[1][2][3] was a Lithuanian basketball and tennis player. He won a gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937.

Juozas Žukas

Juozas Žukas (sixth from the right)
Personal information
Birth name	Joseph J. Zukas
Born	(1915-10-29)October 29, 1915 Chicago, Illinois
Died	July 7, 1981(1981-07-07) (aged 65) Tucson, Arizona
Medal record Men's basketball Representing  Lithuania FIBA EuroBasket 1937 Riga Team competition

Žukas lived in northern Chicago, near Ogden Park, and was known as Joseph "Joe" Zukas.^[4] His first visit to Lithuania was in 1930, where he worked as a sports instructor in the physical culture department in Kaunas.^[5] He would later be part of a delegation of Lithuanian American athletes from Chicago that went to the 1935 World Lithuanian Congress in Kaunas, and stayed there teaching tennis and being a part of the national basketball team.^[6][7] He played basketball for CJSO Kaunas.^[8]

He returned to the United States, and lived in Tucson, Arizona, where he died on July 7, 1981.^[9][10][3]