Juozas Žukas

Juozas Žukas (sixth from the right)
Juozas Žukas
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Jonas Juozas Žukas was a Lithuanian basketball and tennis player. He won a gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937.

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]

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