Alexander Gomelsky

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Alexander Gomelsky
CSP Limoges
Career highlights and awards
As a head coach
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
FIBA Hall of Fame as coach
Medals
Men’s Basketball
Head coach for  Soviet Union
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1963 Poland
Gold medal – first place 1965 Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1967 Finland
Gold medal – first place 1969 Italy
Silver medal – second place 1977 Belgium
Gold medal – first place 1979 Italy
Gold medal – first place 1981 Czechoslovakia
Bronze medal – third place 1983 France
Silver medal – second place 1987 Greece
FIBA World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Rio de Janeiro
Gold medal – first place 1967 Montevideo
Bronze medal – third place 1970 Yugoslavia
Silver medal – second place 1978 Philippines
Gold medal – first place 1982 Colombia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Mexico City
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul

Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky (

coach.[1] The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame
in 2007.

Alexander Gomelsky was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee in 1998. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.

Playing career

Gomelsky played club basketball in the Soviet Union. He played with SKIF Leningrad, from 1945 to 1948. He finished his playing career with SKA, where he played from 1949 to 1953.

Club coaching career

Gomelsky began his coaching career in 1949, in Leningrad, with the women's team of LGS Spartak. In 1953, he became the coach of Rīgas ASK, leading the team to three Soviet Union League titles (1955, 1957, 1958), and three consecutive European Champions Cups (EuroLeague), from 1958 to 1960.

In 1970, he was appointed the head coach of CSKA Moscow, leading the club to 8 Soviet Union national league championships (1971–1974, 1976–1979), 2 Soviet Union Cups (1972, 1973), and one European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) title in 1971. He also led the club to two more European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) finals, in 1970, and 1973.

He also coached in Spain and France shortly before the dissolution of the USSR.

National team coaching career

Gomelsky was the long-time

FIBA World Cup titles (1967, and 1982), and the Summer Olympic Games gold medal in 1988
.

The Soviet team, with

controversial game against the United States
.

Individual awards

For merits in the development of sports and basketball was awarded:

Career achievements

Club competitions

National team competitions

Post coaching career

Grave of Gomelsky at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow

In his later years, Gomelsky was the president of the

50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors
.

The EuroLeague's annual Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year award is named after him, and so is Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA.[2]

Every year the Gomelsky Cup is organized by CSKA in honor of its legendary coach.

Personal life

The Gomelsky family has been a driving force behind development of the Soviet/Russian basketball. Gomelsky's younger brother,

basketball coach, and his son, Vladimir
, also worked as a basketball player and coach. His son Gomelsky [Alexandre] ran a sports association school in his father name, leading to several female Olympic basketball players. He was survived by his four sons and four grandchildren. His wife Tatiana, also a basketball player and coach, died from cancer.

See also

Bibliography

  • A. Ya. Gomelsky (1985). Team Management in Basketball (in Russian). Moscow:
    Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original
    on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2007.

References

  1. ^ YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR Archived 29 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.
  2. ^ Professional Basketball Club CSKA Moscow. Cskabasket.com. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.

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