Roberts Bluķis (4 April 1913 – 14 April 1998) was a Latvian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

and

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player. Throughout his career, he played ice hockey for

Rīgas US Riga district () was an Districts of Latvia, administrative division of Latvia, located in Semigallia and Vidzeme regions, in the centre of the country. It was the ''de facto'' successor of the historical Riga county since 1949. Beginning from ...

, HK ASK Rīga, and

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

. Bluķis also played hockey for the Latvian national team at the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 February 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Ger ...

and in four

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. He finished his career after World War II with three seasons at Augsburger HC. In basketball, he was a three-time Latvian champion and played for the Latvian national team at the

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

and

1937 International University Games The 1937 International University Games were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Paris, France. Held from 21–29 August, 22 nations competed in fourteen sports. Boxing, cycling (sport), cycling, field hoc ...

. He studied at the

Riga Technical University Riga Technical University (RTU) () is the oldest technical university in the Baltic countries established on October 14, 1862. It is located in Riga, Latvia and was previously known as Riga Polytechnical Institute and Riga Polytechnicum. In 1 ...

, earning a degree in engineering, and moved to Germany and then the United States after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. There he worked in civil service with the

US Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wor ...

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* * 1913 births 1998 deaths Basketball players from Riga Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Latvian emigrants to the United States Latvian ice hockey forwards Latvian men's basketball players Latvian World War II refugees Olympic ice hockey players for Latvia People from Riga county Riga Technical University alumni {{Latvia-icehockey-bio-stub