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Height
  
5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Name
  
Ceslovas Dauksa

Ceslovas Dauksa
Born
  
1916
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Česlovas Daukša (born in 1916) is a Lithuanian former basketball player. He won gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937.

Biography

Česlovas Daukša

Daukša born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. After returning to Lithuania with his parents, he graduated six classes in Kaunas Aušra gymnasium. Later he worked at "Spindulys" printing house. Despite playing football from an early age, in 1935 he became an basketball player and in the same year, he debuted in Lithuania national basketball team during painful loss to Latvia.

After Konstantinas Savickas began training Lithuania national team, Lithuania game play improved drastically. Daukša was a member of Lithuania national team during EuroBasket 1937 and won gold medal with it.

After World War II, he worked at Republican Physical Education and Sport Committee and other sports organizations. He retired in 1987 and currently lives in Kaunas, Lithuania.

References

Česlovas Daukša Wikipedia