Estonian-Polish basketball player and coach
Walenty Kłyszejko (Estonian : Valentin Klõšeiko , Russian : Валентин Клышейко ; 2 December 1909 – 20 August 1987) was an Estonian –Polish basketball coach and player. He was also a professor of physical education at the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw .
Klyszejko was born in Saint Petersburg . Some time in the 1910s, he moved with family to Tallinn , where began playing basketball at the local YMCA 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 in Warsaw and became a coach of Polonia Warszawa . In 1936 he became coach of the national basketball team of Poland , which at the 1936 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 to Great Britain , where he remained a soldier of the Polish Army . After the war, he returned to Poland, coaching the team of AZS-AWF Warszawa , writing books about sports and lecturing.
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