Heino Veskila Explained

Heino Veskila
Position:Forward
Birth Date:14 December 1918
Birth Place:Tartu
Death Place:Tartu
Nationality:Estonian
Years1:1935–1938
Team1:Tartu NMKÜ (YMCA)
Years2:1938–1940
Team2:Tartu EASK
Years3:1940–1941
Team3:Tartu Dünamo

Heino Veskila (14 December 1918 – 22 August 1941) was an Estonian basketball player who played for Tartu YMCA, Tartu EASK and Tartu Dünamo. He also represented the Estonia men's national basketball team internationally.

Veskila competed for Estonia in the 1936 Summer Olympics in basketball. A record he set was being the youngest participant among all basketball players, at the age of 17. Despite his very young age, he averaged 13 points per game, including 20 against the USA, out of Estonia's total of 28.

Veskila made the All-Tournament Team at the EuroBasket 1937 and was the leading scorer at the EuroBasket 1939, with 116 points in seven games.[1] He earned 17 caps in basketball for the Estonian national team.

Veskila died on 22 July 1941 as a prisoner-of-war.[2] [3] [4]

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  1. Web site: Season 1939. 18 July 2015. FIBA Europe.
  2. Web site: Heino Veskila . 20 July 2015 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150722180055/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/heino-veskila-1.html . 22 July 2015 .
  3. Web site: VESKILA, HEINO. 20 July 2015. ESBL.
  4. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.