Jiří Baumruk (27 June 1930 – 23 November 1989) was a Czech professional basketball player and coach. Club career Baumruk spent his club career playing with Slavia Prague (1952–1953), and namely with Sparta Prague (1950–1951, 1954–1964). With Sparta Prague, he earned nine medals in the Czechoslovak Basketball League (once champion, five times vice-champion, three times 3rd place). In the 1960–61 season, he and his team participated in the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague), and reached the quarterfinals. National team career Baumruk represented the senior Czechoslovak national team at the 1960 Pre-Olympic basketball tournament (scoring 68 points in 5 games), and a further two times in the Summer Olympic Games 1952 (4 points in 2 games), 1960 (147 points in 8 games), 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. See also Czechoslovakia national basketball team List of the best czech basketball players of the 20th century: Jiří Baumruk (#7) Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics FIBA EuroBasket MVP Sparta Prague References External links Baumruk, FIBA profile Baumruk, OG 1960, FIBA profile FIBA Europe profile BC Sparta Prague Club history Sparta Prague in Division 1 Men 1930 births 1989 deaths Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Czech basketball coaches Czech men's basketball players Czechoslovak basketball coaches Czechoslovak men's basketball players FIBA EuroBasket-winning players Olympic basketball players of Czechoslovakia Small forwards USK Praha players