Stepas Butautas

Stepas Butautas
Personal information
Born(1925-08-25)25 August 1925
Kaunas, Lithuania
Died22 March 2001(2001-03-22) (aged 75)
Kaunas, Lithuania
Career information
Playing career1944–1956
Number4, 5, 14
Coaching career1958–1970
Career history
As player:
1944Dinamo Kaunas
1945ASK Kaunas
1946Dinamo Kaunas
1947–1956Žalgiris Kaunas
As coach:
1955–1956Lithuania women
1958–1964Soviet Union women
1960–1966Politechnika Kaunas women
1967–1968, 1970Cuba
1975–1979Žalgiris Kaunas
Career highlights and awards
As a player:
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing  Soviet Union
Summer Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki
EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1947 Czechoslovakia
Gold medal – first place 1951 France
Gold medal – first place 1953 USSR
Head Coach Soviet Union Soviet Union
FIBA Women's World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1959 Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1964 Peru
EuroBasket Women
Silver medal – second place 1958 Poland
Gold medal – first place 1960 Bulgaria
Gold medal – first place 1962 France
Gold medal – first place 1964 Hungary
Head Coach  Cuba
CentroBasket
Silver medal – second place 1967 El Salvador

Stepas Butautas (alternate spellings: Stiepas, Butaustas) (25 August 1925 – 22 March 2001 in Kaunas) was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas.[1] He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal. During the tournament, he played in all eight games.[2]

He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.

  1. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 306.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stepas Butautas Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2018.