Modestas Paulauskas

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Medal record
Modestas Paulauskas
Men's Basketball
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	Munich 1972	Team Competition
Bronze	Mexico City 1968	Team Competition

Modestas Paulauskas (March 19, 1945 in Kretinga) was a Lithuanian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also won a bronze medal with the team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Paulauskas trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas. He is known as one of the best players of all-time of Lithuania. He had a tremendous dribbling ability and he was "foot-ahead player" of his generation. At current time he works as a coach with youngsters.

v • d • e Soviet Union squad - 1967 FIBA World Championship Champions - Gold medal

4 Checuro \| 5 Paulauskas \| 6 Sakandelidze \| 7 Travin \| 8 Selikhov \| 9 Polivoda \| 10 Belov \| 11 Tomson \| 12 Nesterov \| 13 Volnov \| 14 Lipso \| 15 Andreev \| Coach: Gomelsky

v • d • e Soviet Union squad - 1974 FIBA World Championship Champions - Gold medal

4 Pavlov \| 5 Paulauskas \| 6 Miloserdov \| 7 Salnikov \| 8 Boloshev \| 9 Edeshko \| 10 Belov \| 11 Tomson \| 12 Chartschenkov \| 13 Belov \| 14 Sigili \| 15 \| Coach: Kondrashin

v • d • e 1968 Olympic Bronze Medalists Men's Basketball – Soviet Union

Anatoli Polivoda \| Anatoli Krikun \| Vadim Kapranov \| Vladimir Andreyev \| Sergei Kovalenko \| Modestas Paulauskas \| Jaak Lipso \| Gennadi Volnov \| Priit Tomson \| Zurab Sakandelidze \| Yury Selichov \| Sergei Belov \| Coach: Alexander Gomelsky

v • d • e 1972 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball – Soviet Union

Anatoli Polivoda \| Modestas Paulauskas \| Zurab Sakandelidze \| Alzhan Zharmukhamedov \| Aleksandr Boloshev \| Ivan Edeshko \| Sergei Belov \| Mikheil Korkiya \| Ivan Dvorny \| Gennadi Volnov \| Alexander Belov \| Sergei Kovalenko \| Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin