Overview
- The Latvian Basketball Federation announced her death on January 9, confirming the passing of the two-time Olympic champion.
- She won Olympic gold in 1976 in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow, along with three world championships and ten European titles for the USSR.
- With her in the lineup, the Soviet national team went unbeaten in official tournaments from 1968 to 1985.
- At club level she dominated with TTT Riga, earning 15 Soviet championships and 11 European Champion Cups.
- She was the first non-U.S. inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993, later entering the Women’s Hall in 1999 and the FIBA Hall in 2007, and Guinness records her as the tallest professional female player at 2.10 meters.