death_date death_place birth_place nationality position birth_date article_title name
22 july 1948 molotov oblast , soviet union riga , russian empire latvian center 19 june 1909 rūdolfs jurciņš
 rūdolfs jurciņš
rūdolfs jurciņš

rūdolfs jurciņš -lrb- 19 june 1909 -- 22 july 1948 -rrb- was a latvian basketball player .
he played as a center .
jurciņš won a gold medal at the 1935 eurobasket competition , becoming first european champion .
he participated at the 1936 summer olympics , where latvia national basketball team got 15th/18th place .
he was arrested in 1945 and deported to the gulag camp in 1947 .
