Gert Kullamäe

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**Gert Kullamäe**
Date of birth	June 3, 1971 (1971-06-03) (age 37)
Place of birth	Tallinn, Estonia, Estonian SSR, USSR
Current position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
Current Team	Rock Tartu
Years with Team	2006-present
Previous Teams	1985-1989 TPI 1989-1990 TPEDI 1990-1993 Kalev Tallinn 1993-1994 BC Zalgiris 1994-1996 BC Kalev 1996-1997 Kamee 1998-2000 BC Kalev 2000-2001 Telindus Oostende 2001-2002 BC Hotronic 2002-2004 Brose Baskets 2004-2006 EiffelTowers
Height	196 cm
Weight	96 kg

Gert Kullamäe (born June 3, 1971 in Tallinn,Estonian SSR,USSR) is an Estonian professional basketball player. He mostly plays in a shooting guard position and is a great 3-point shooter. Gert Kullamäe is six-time Estonian Champion and USSR, Lithuanian, Belgian and Dutch champion.

1 Club career
2 National Team career
3 Honours
4 External links

[edit] Club career

Kullamäe made his senior club debut with TPI (Tallinn University of Technology) team in Estonian SSR Championship (today SEB Korvpalli Meistriliiga). This happened in autumn 1985 when he was only 14 years and 4 months old. After some seasons, he signed with Tallinna "Kalev" team and he has played in USSR Championships; Korac Cup in 1990-91 and FIBA European Champions Cup in 1991-92.During this period Kullamäe won USSR Championship in 1991 and Estonian Championships in 1992 and 1993. Then he moved to Lithuanian BC Zalgiris and won the Lithuanian Championship in 1994. In Lithuania he was coached by Jaak Salumets ,ex- coach of Tallinn "Kalev" and the Estonia national basketball team. After a successful season with the Lithuanian club Kullamäe came back to Estonia and played for "BC Kalev" and "Kamee" teams in Meistriliiga. He won the Estonian Championships again in 1995 and 1998. Eurobasket.com voted him a Meistiliiga MVP in 1998; 1999; 2000. Kullamäe signed a contract with Telindus Oostende in 2000-01 season and won the Belgian League with the team. After a serious knee injury and one season in an Estonian team "BC Hotronic" he moved back to Europe. Kullamäe signed to a Bundesliga team Brose Baskets. With this team he won two German Championships silver medals and then moved to EiffelTowers. Kullamäe was voted Dutch Eredivisie All-Bosman Player of the Year in 2005 ; 2006 and he won the Dutch Championship in 2006. In summer of 2006 Kullamäe came back to Estonia and joined Rock Tartu. In 2007 and 2008 he won his 5th and 6th Estonian Championship title with Tartu team. Gert Kullamäe is currently the captain of Tartu team.

[edit] National Team career

In the late 80's young Gert Kullamäe was a member of the U-17 USSR Basketball team (coached by Modestas Paulauskas) and the U-19 USSR Basketball team (coached by Stanislav Jerjomin).He won bronze medal with the USSR team in the U-17 European Championship in 1988.Kullamäe was a member of Estonia national basketball team in 1993-95; 1998-2001; 2004 and 2007(captain).His National team career-high score was 32 points against Lithuania in autumn 1994,during the EuroBasket 1995 qualifaying round. Kullamäe was also a member of the Estonian EuroBasket 1993 squad.