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Heino Kruus

1926 - 2012

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Heino Kruus (30 September 1926 in Tallinn – 24 June 2012) was an Estonian basketball player (186 cm) who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the silver medal. He played in all eight matches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heino Kruus has received more than 15,967 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Heino Kruus is the 101st most popular basketball player (up from 157th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 158th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Heino Kruus ranks 101 out of 1,757. Before him are Dominique Wilkins, Aleksandar Petrović, Jerry Sloan, Jerry Lucas, Larry Brown, and Mike D'Antoni. After him are Joe Bryant, Jonas Kazlauskas, Dragan Šakota, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Spencer Haywood, and Vinko Jelovac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Heino Kruus ranks 311. Before him are Rossella Falk, Inna Makarova, Abdur Rahman Biswas, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Raaj Kumar, and William Wakefield Baum. After him are Veikko Karvonen, Edmund Purdom, Ann Curtis, Anahit Tsitsikian, Ibrahim Nasir, and George Rhoden. Among people deceased in 2012, Heino Kruus ranks 262. Before him are Edvard Mirzoyan, Eugene Polley, François Migault, Otto Stich, Lupe Ontiveros, and Aleksandr Belyavsky. After him are Davy Jones, Keith Campbell, Juan Francisco Lombardo, Ignatius IV of Antioch, Roland Moreno, and Félicien Marceau.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Heino Kruus ranks 130 out of 351. Before him are Pavel Schilling (1786), Andres Tarand (1940), Konrad Mägi (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), Alfred Schmidt (1898), and Ragnar Nurkse (1907). After him are Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864), Jüri Tamm (1957), Arnold Meri (1919), Ivo Linna (1949), Aavo Pikkuus (1954), and Jüri Ratas (1978).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Estonia

Among basketball players born in Estonia, Heino Kruus ranks 1. After him are Jaak Lipso (1940), Joann Lõssov (1921), Tiit Sokk (1964), Martin Müürsepp (1974), and Kristjan Kangur (1982).

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