Jānis Krūmiņš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jānis Krūmiņš

Soviet basketball player

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Kronstadt, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1994

Profession: basketball player

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.



Description	Dutch photographer and cinematographer
Date of birth/death	1929	1996
Work location	Amsterdam, Bentveld
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