Paulina Radziulytė, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paulina Radziulytė

Lithuanian basketball player (1905-1986)

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1905

Place of Birth: Velikiye Luki, Pskov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: basketball player

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Paulina Radziulyte-Kalvaitiene (14 February 1905 – 19 June 1986) was a Lithuanian athlete and basketball player.
She was the first woman representative of Lithuania at the Olympic Games and a silver medalist at the EuroBasket Women 1938.
She was one of the most famous and accomplished sportswomen in inter-war Lithuania.As an athlete, she competed in various events, but mostly in sprints and middle-distance running.
She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
She was a Lithuanian champion in athletics 27 times and achieved Lithuanian national records 26 times.
Five times (in 1927, 1928, 1934, 1936, and 1937) she was Lithuanian champion in women's basketball with the LFLS team.
With the LFLS team she also won gold in women's basketball at the first Lithuanian National Olympics in July 1938.
A member of the Lithuanian team, she won silver at the EuroBasket Women 1938.During World War II, she retreated to Germany and moved to Switzerland and Australia, eventually settling in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958.
In 1961–1981, she worked as a teacher at a Lithuanian school and was active in scouting.
She directed school's plays and published a collection of plays in 1976.