Leonas born 17 March 1919, Kaunas
Died 18 July 1994, Sydney
Leonas began playing sport while still a student in
Kaunas. He was a A level soccer player and
swimmer. He took up basketball and
joined the 1937 Lithuanian team to play in Riga for the European League. He was part of the 1939 team who won gold.
He left Lithuania in 1944, fleeing to Germany
where he remained until migrating to Australia. While in Germany he played basketball
for the Tubingen University student team.
He was registered as a Medical doctor in Kaunas in 1945 and
again in Sydney in July 1957.
He spent
ten years in New Guinea and took up tennis. On his return he began skating and
became an airplane pilot. Later in life he too up golf.
He married and several daughters.
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