Jiří Baumruk
Jiří Baumruk was a Czech professional basketball player and coach.Club career
Baumruk spent his club career playing with Slavia Prague, and namely with Sparta Prague. With Sparta Prague, he earned nine medals in the Czechoslovak Basketball League. In the 1960–61 season, he and his team participated in the FIBA European Champions Cup, and reached the quarterfinals.Baumruk represented the senior Czechoslovak national team at the 1960 Pre-Olympic basketball tournament, and a further two times in the Summer Olympic Games 1952, 1960, and in six EuroBaskets, being the MVP of the EuroBasket 1957.
With the national team, he won three silver medals at EuroBasket, in France 1951, Hungary 1955, and Turkey 1959; and a bronze medal at the EuroBasket in Bulgaria 1957. In 1960, with the national team, he finished in fifth place at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games, and he was the team's leading scorer, with an average of 18.4 points per game.
