where they lost to BC Žalgiris Kaunas. Afterwards, the team didn't appear in national competitions until 2011. Olimpas Plungė started to play in Regional Basketball League and won gold medals in 2012 and qualified to National Basketball League. In 2012-2013 National Basketball League's regular season team finished 3rd amongst 18 teams, however it lost the Quarter-finals series 2-0 to BC Žalgiris Kaunas 2. Team plays in "SS Žemaitijos Suvenyras" arena, which has a capacity of 200 people. Twin towns – sister cities Plungė is twinned with: Bjerkreim, Norway Boxholm, Sweden Bruntál, Czech Republic Golub-Dobrzyń, Poland Kvareli, Georgia Menden, Germany Tukums, Latvia Famous residents Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen was born here and later served as Rosh Yeshivah. Jacob Bunka, folk artist and creator of Holocaust memorials. M. K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911), Lithuanian composer and artist, lived here Lazarus Goldschmidt (Plungė, 1871–1950), translator of the Talmud Historian Zenonas Ivinskis (Plungė, 1908–1971) was born here Jurgita Jurkutė (Plungė, 1985), Miss Lithuania 2007, was born here Bronislovas Lubys (1938–2011), entrepreneur, former Prime Minister of Lithuania, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and businessman , former Lithuanian ambassador to the United Kingdom. Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943–1992), a mountaineer, the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first female climber to reach K2 Aistė Smilgevičiūtė (Plungė, 1977), singer, was born here Petras Vyšniauskas, Jazz saxophonist, was born and grew up here References External links The murder of the Jews of Plungė during World War II, at Yad Vashem website. Cities in Telšiai County Cities in Lithuania Municipalities administrative centres of Lithuania Plungė District Municipality Telshevsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania