Jiří Baumruk

Jiří Baumruk

Jiří Baumruk in 1960
Personal information
Nationality Czech
Listed height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Listed weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Career information
Playing career 1950–1966
Position Forward
Career history
1950–1951 Sparta Prague
1952–1953 Slavia Prague
1953–1954 Ekonom Prague
1954–1964 Sparta Prague
1965–1966 Tatran Prague
Career highlights and awards
Eurobasket 1957 MVP
Medals
Competitor for  Czechoslovakia
European Championships
Eurobasket 1951 Czechoslovakia
Eurobasket 1955 Czechoslovakia
Eurobasket 1957 Czechoslovakia
Eurobasket 1959 Czechoslovakia

Jiří Baumruk (27 June 1930 – 23 November 1989) was a Czech basketball player. He spent his career playing for Slavia Prague (1952–1953) and namely for Sparta Prague (1950–1951, 1954–1964). With Sparta Prague he earned nine medals in the Czechoslovakia League (once champion, five times vice-champion, three times 3rd place). In 1960/1961 he and his team participated in the Champions Cup and achieved the quarterfinals.[1]

He represented the Czechoslovakia national team at the 1960 Pre-Olympic basketball tournament (68 points in 5 games), further two times in the Summer Olympics 1952 (4 points in 2 games), 1960 (147 points in 8 games),[2][3][4] and in six Eurobaskets, whereas at the Eurobasket 1957 he was named MVP.[5] With the national team he won three silver medals at Eurobasket in France 1951, Hungary 1955, Turkey 1959 and bronze medal at Eurobasket in Bulgaria 1957. In 1960 with the national team, he finished fifth at the 1960 Summer Olympics and was the best team scorer with 18.4 points per game.[6]

Basketball coach

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Champions Cup 1960–61". linguasport.com. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sports-Reference profile". Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "11 – Vladimir Baumruk FIBA profile". Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "3 – Jiri Baumruk FIBA profile". Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "X EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP (SOFIJA 1957)". linguasport.com. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Jiří Baumruk. sports-reference.com

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