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Ilmar Kullam ( 15 June 1922 -- 2 November 2011 ) was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics . He trained at VSS Kalev in Tartu . He was a member of the Soviet team , which won the silver medal . He played all eight matches . The 1952 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad , were an international multi - sport event held in Helsinki , Finland , in 1952 . Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics , which were cancelled due to World War II . It is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held . It was also the Olympic Games at which the most number of world records were broken until surpassed by the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The Soviet Union , the People ' s Republic of China , Indonesia , Israel , Thailand , and Saarland made their Olympic debuts in Helsinki 1952 . Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each ___MASK45___ of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . Thailand ( or ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country at the ___MASK34___ of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia . With a total area of approximately , Thailand is the world ' s 51st - largest country . It is the 20th - most - populous country in the world , with around 66 million people . The capital and largest city is Bangkok . Israel , officially known as the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . Israel ' s financial and technology ___MASK20___ is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized .