Overview
- The Latvian Basketball Association announced her death on social media, and local reports noted no cause was provided.
- She won Olympic gold medals in 1976 in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow with the USSR national team.
- Her international record includes three world championships and ten European titles, with the national team unbeaten in official tournaments from 1968 to 1985.
- With TTT Riga, she captured 15 USSR championships and 11 European Champions Cups during a dominant club career.
- She was the first non‑U.S. woman inducted into the International Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993, and later entered the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.