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Jan 30, 1930 Kronstadt, Russia Died on 20 Nov 1994 (aged 64)
Soviet basketball player
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- Janis Kruminš (30 January 1930 – 20 November 1994) was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player.
- Helped by his height (about 220 cm, or 7'3"), he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years.
- As a player of the senior Soviet Union national basketball team, Kruminš won 3 gold medals at the 1959, 1961, and 1963 EuroBaskets, as well as 3 silver medals at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Summer Olympic Games. A Russian poll that was conducted in 2006, named Kruminš as the 3rd most popular Soviet men's basketball player of all time, after Arvydas Sabonis and Vladimir Tkachenko.
