Inga Freidenfelds Explained
Inga Freidenfelds |
Nationality: | Australian |
Sport: | Basketball |
Birth Date: | 25 April 1935 |
Birth Place: | Riga, Latvia |
Death Place: | Adelaide, Australia |
Inga Freidenfelds (25 April 1935 - 9 April 2022)[1] [2] was an Australian basketball player.[3] He immigrated to Australia as a fifteen year old in 1950, and made his senior debut for South Australia in 1954. Following the 1955 Australian Championships he was selected to the 1956 Olympic Games team as Captain, and averaged 17 points and 10 rebounds per game during the men's basketball tournament. Friedenfelds was inducted as a Player to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.[4] [5]
Notes and References
- Web site: FREIDENFELDS, Inga . My Tributes . 22 April 2022.
- Web site: Vale Inga Freidenfelds . Basketball Australia . 22 April 2022.
- Web site: Inge Friedenfelds . Olympedia . 29 January 2022.
- Inge Friedenfelds Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418072703/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/inge-friedenfelds-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 21 June 2018.
- Web site: Inga Freidenfelds Basketball Australia. 4 October 2021. australia.basketball. en-AU. 4 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211004140047/https://australia.basketball/blog/hall_of_fame/inga-freidenfelds/. dead.