- Walenty Kłyszejko
Walenty Kłyszejko (Estonian: "Valentin Klõšeiko", Russian: "Валентин Клышейко") (
December 2 ,1909 –August 20 ,1987 ) was an Estonian - Polish basketball player and later a coach, as well as a professor at theJózef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw .Klyszejko was born in
Sankt Petersburg . Some time in the 1910s, he moved with family toTallinn , where began playing basketball at the localYMCA team as well as for the national basketball team of Estonia, for which he capped five times. In the 1933, he came to Poland to study at The Academy of Physical Education inWarsaw and became a coach ofPolonia Warszawa . In 1936 he became coach of the national basketball team of Poland, which at the1936 Summer Olympics was placed on the fourth spot, the best in the history of Polish basketball. In 1939, during the European Championships, Poland under Klyszejko won bronze.Klyszejko fought in the
Polish September Campaign , after which he managed to get toGreat Britain , where he remained a soldier of thePolish Army . After the war, he returned to Poland, coaching the team ofAZS-AWF Warszawa , writing books about sports and lecturing.ources
* [http://probasket.pl/Rss_Historia-koszykowki-cz-2-Polski-basket-przed-II-wojna-swiatowa_24047 History of Polish basketball before World War II]
* [http://www.msport.gov.pl/kal.php?c=45&sq=-12-02&st=d Official webpage of Polish Government's Ministry of Sports]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.