Maigonis Valdmanis
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Born | September 8, 1933 Riga, Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | October 30, 1999 Roja, Latvia | (aged 66)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maigonis Valdmanis (September 8, 1933 – October 30, 1999) was a Latvian basketball player. He was born in Riga.
He played for ASK Riga and won three Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960) and four Soviet national league championships (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958).
Playing for the USSR national basketball team Maigonis Valdmanis won three gold medals at Eurobasket 1957, Eurobasket 1959, Eurobasket 1961, and silver medals at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
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- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
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