Oscar Furlong
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Power forward / center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1944–1957 | Gimnasia V. Parque | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As player:
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| FIBA Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals
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Oscar Alberto Furlong Chretienneau (22 October 1927 – 11 June 2018) was an Argentine
FIBA Hall of Fame
in September 2007.
Early life and career
Nicknamed Pillín and El Primer Crack, Furlong started playing
NBA player, Jim Krebs
.
National team career
At the
.Furlong was a member of the Argentine team that won the gold medal at the
United States. In the 1951 Pan American Games, he helped Argentina win the silver medal in basketball. At the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, his team earned a fourth-place finish in the basketball tournament
, after losing in the semifinals, against the United States, 85–76.
In 1953, after his team won the gold medal at the
World University Games, he received a scholarship to play basketball for Southern Methodist University, in the United States. In 1955, he helped the Argentina squad repeat the silver medal result, at the 1955 Pan American Games
.
Retirement from basketball and tennis career
In 1957, while playing
FIBA World Cup team should be considered professional, as they had breached the ‘Amateurism Code’ of the IOC, after receiving cars as gifts. On 8 January 1957, all the members of the Argentine FIBA World Cup team were banned for life, from participation in basketball. Juan Perón had previously left the country, to escape the coup d'état
of his presidency.
Furlong later played
coach, his team reached the semifinals of the 1977 Davis Cup
.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Oscar Furlong Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "US Pushed to Top Argentina" at Kentucky New Era, 3 Aug 1948
External links
- Oscar Furlong at FIBA
- Oscar Furlong at Basketball-Reference.com
- Oscar Furlong at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Oscar Furlong at Olympedia
- Oscar Furlong FIBA Hall of Fame Profile at FIBA
- ‘El Primer Crack’ of Argentine Basketball: Oscar Furlong (in Spanish)
- "La primera gran estrella" Diario Olé(in Spanish)
- Biography (in Spanish)
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