Pranas Mažeika


Pranas "Frank" Mažeika was a Lithuanian physician and basketball player. He won two gold medals with the Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939.

Biography

Pranas Mažeika was born in Beloretsk, Russian Empire to Lithuanians, Antanas Mažeika and Honorata Mažeika. He received his medical degree in Lithuania in 1943. Together with his wife and son, he departed from Lithuania in 1944 and later emigrated to the United States in 1949. He worked at Wabash Hospital in Moberly, Missouri, from 1952 to 1953, and then he practiced medicine in Lake Zurich, Illinois for over four decades.

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