Juozas Žukas
Jonas Juozas Žukas 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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Žukas lived in northern Chicago, near Ogden Park, and was known as Joseph "Joe" Zukas.[1] His first visit to Lithuania was in 1930, where he worked as a sports instructor in the physical culture department in Kaunas.[2] 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.[3][4] He played basketball for CJSO Kaunas.[5]
References
- Footnotes
- http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1938/08/07/page/24/article/miss-malcolm-4-joe-zukas-win-in-park-tennis
- CHICAGO NET STAR FINDS LITHUANIA A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE
- http://draugas.org/key_dnlh/lh/issues/2012-09-15-LHERITAGE.pdf%5B%5D
- The Motherland, the Godfather, and the Birth of a Basketball Dynasty: American Efforts to Promote Basketball in Lithuania
- http://sportas.lrytas.lt/-13080604711306962874-e%C4%8D-istorija-penki-lietuvos-%C5%BEingsniai-%C4%AF-krep%C5%A1inio-%C5%A1lov%C4%99-1937-m.htm
- Bibliography
- Vidas Mačiulis, Vytautas Gudelis. Halė, kurioje žaidė Lubinas ir Sabonis. 1939–1989 – Respublikinis sporto kombinatas, Kaunas, 1989
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