Leonas Petrauskas

Leonas Eugenijus Petrauskas was a Lithuanian basketball player. He won two gold medals with the Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939.

Biography

Petrauskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 17, 1919. Until 1943 he played for a basketball team of the Lithuanian Physical Education Union. In 1936, he won the Lithuanian basketball title. In 1937–1939, he represented the Lithuania men's national basketball team, played in three games, scored three points, and won two European titles during the EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939.
Facing the upcoming Soviet re-occupation of Lithuania, Petrauskas departed to the West in 1944. In 1949, he arrived in Australia. In Australia he graduated the Institute of Tropical Diseases and Hygiene of the University of Sydney.
Petrauskas worked as a Doctor at the Engadine Medical Group, 1107 Old Prince's Highway, Engadine, NSW, Australia. Engadine Medical Group also had a smaller practice at Heathcote, NSW, Australia.
For more than ten years Petrauskas also lived in New Guinea.