Valdis Muižnieks

Valdis Muižnieks

Medal record
Men's Basketball
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	Team Competition
	1960 Rome	Team Competition
	1964 Tokyo	Team Competition
European Championship
	1957 Bulgaria	Soviet Union
	1959 Turkey	Soviet Union
	1961 Yugoslavia	Soviet Union

Valdis Muižnieks (February 22, 1935 – November 29, 2013) was a Latvian basketball player.^[1]

Muižnieks was born in Riga. He played for Rīgas ASK and won 3 Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960) and 4 Soviet national championships (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958). Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR (1959).

Playing for Soviet national team, Muižnieks won 3 gold medals at Eurobasket 1957, Eurobasket 1959, Eurobasket 1961, and 3 silver medals at the Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1964).

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External links[]

• Profile at ASK (riga) site^{[permanent dead link]}
• basketpedya.com
• euroleague.net
• databasesports.com

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