Artur "Ats" Amon (17 February 1916 – 3 September 1944) was an Estonian

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player. He competed in the

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. Amon was born in

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, where he attended secondary school at Tartu Boys' Gymnasium before enrolling at the

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, majoring in chemistry. While at the University of Tartu, he belonged to the Student Society Liivika. From 1928 onward, he played basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and athletics at the Boys' Sports Association's courses and competitions. Between 1932 and 1935, he played on the basketball team of the Tartu YMCA. He was the Estonian volleyball champion in the Tartu YMCA in 1934 and the Kalev Tallinn team in 1937, 1938, and 1939. From 1936 until 1940, he played basketball for Kalev Tallinn, and in 1941, for Dünamo. He became the Estonian champion in 1934, 1936 and 1941, winning 4 silver and 3 bronze medals. He was a member of the Estonian national basketball team 12 times, including at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, and the 1939 European Basketball Championships, where he achieved fifth place. Following the outbreak of World War II and the

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, Amon joined the Finnish backed Haukka-Tümmler intelligence group of the Estonian

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partisans as a wireless radio operator. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets during the Tartu offensive while on a mission to observe troop movements prior to the Red Army's main offensive on the

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river. He was killed by gunshot by Soviet soldiers during an escape attempt in Õru Parish, aged 28.

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