Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach
Stepas Butautas
Personal information
Born
(1925-08-25)25 August 1925 Kaunas, Lithuania
Died
22 March 2001(2001-03-22) (aged 75) Kaunas, Lithuania
Career information
Playing career
1944–1956
Number
4, 5, 14
Coaching career
1958–1970
Career history
As player:
1944
Dinamo Kaunas
1945
ASK Kaunas
1946
Dinamo Kaunas
1947–1956
Žalgiris Kaunas
As coach:
1955–1956
Lithuania women
1958–1964
Soviet Union women
1960–1966
Politechnika Kaunas women
1967–1968, 1970
Cuba
1975–1979
Žalgiris Kaunas
Career highlights and awards
As a player:
FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)
2× Soviet League champion (1947, 1951)
6× Lithuanian SSR League champion (1945, 1950, 1952–1955)
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing Soviet Union
Summer Olympic Games
1952 Helsinki
EuroBasket
1947 Czechoslovakia
1951 France
1953 USSR
Head Coach Soviet Union
FIBA Women's World Cup
1959 Soviet Union
1964 Peru
EuroBasket Women
1958 Poland
1960 Bulgaria
1962 France
1964 Hungary
Head Coach Cuba
CentroBasket
1967 El Salvador
Stepas Butautas (alternate spellings: Stiepas, Butaustas) (25 August 1925 – 22 March 2001 in Kaunas) was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas.[1] He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal. During the tournament, he played in all eight games.[2]
He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
^Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 306.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stepas Butautas Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
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