Charles Borck was a Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 basketball

Basketball

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 player. Born in Quiapo

Quiapo, Manila

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, Manila

Manila

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, Philippines

Philippines

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 of a German

Germany

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 father and a Spanish

Spain

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 mother, he was nicknamed The Blonde Bombshell because of his blond hair and good looks. A 6'1" center

Center (basketball)

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, he played for the San Beda

San Beda College

San Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...

 Red Lions men's senior basketball team and later for the Philippines at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics

-Fifth-place classification:-First round:Winners advanced to the second round. Losers competed in the first consolation round for another chance to move on.* Estonia def. France, 34-29* Chile def. Turkey, 30-16* Switzerland def. Germany, 25-18...

 where he was the tallest member of the latter team.

After retiring from active play, Borck settled in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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, Nevada

Nevada

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, USA in 1949. By the time of his death in 2008, he was the 1936 Philippine men's Olympic basketball team's last surviving member. He became one of the first inductees into the Philippine National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 along with fellow 1936 Olympic basketball team members Ambrosio Padilla

Ambrosio Padilla

Ambrosio Bibby Padilla was a former Filipino basketball player and former elected member of the Senate of the Philippines. He was one of the most important figures in the Asian basketball development.Padilla was born as the eighth of eleven children of Dr. Nicanor Padilla and Ysabel Bibby...

, Jacinto Ciria Cruz

Jacinto Ciria Cruz

Jacinto "Jumping Jack" Ciria Cruz is a former Filipino basketball player and coach. Ciria Cruz played for the University of Santo Tomas men's basketball team, and also represented the Philippines at the 1936 Summer Olympics as a member of the country's national basketball team. He later ventured...

 and Primitivo Martinez.

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