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Juozas Žukas
Lithuanian basketball and tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jonas Juozas Žukas (October 29, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois - July 7, 1981)[1][2][3] was a Lithuanian basketball and tennis player.
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Biography
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]
In 1939, he returned to the United States, and lived in Tucson, Arizona, where he died on July 7, 1981.[9][10][3][11]
He won a gold medal with the Lithuania men's national basketball team during the EuroBasket 1937 in Riga, Latvia.[11]
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