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Lithuanian basketball and tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (sixth from the right) | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Joseph J. Zukas | ||||||||||||||
| Born | October 29, 1915 Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| Died | July 7, 1981 (aged 65) Tucson, Arizona | ||||||||||||||
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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]
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