Otar Korkia

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Otar Korkia
Cambodia
Career highlights and awards
As player:
  • FIBA's 50 Greatest Players
    (1991)
  • 3× Soviet League champion (1950, 1953, 1954)
  • 2× Soviet Cup winner (1949, 1950)
  • Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
    (1950)
  • Order of Lenin (1957)
  • Order of Honor (Georgia)
  • Best Georgian Basketball Player of the 20th Century
  • Best Georgian Sportsman of the 20th Century

As head coach:

Medals
Representing  Soviet Union
Men's Basketball
Summer Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1947 Prague
Gold medal – first place 1951 Paris
Gold medal – first place 1953 Moscow
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Budapest

Otar Korkia (

coach. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players, in 1991. He was also named the Best Georgian Basketball Player of the 20th Century, and the Best Georgian Sportsman of the 20th Century.[1] He was born in Kutaisi
.

Club career

During his club career, Korkia played with Dinamo Kutaisi, from 1940 to 1947, and with Dinamo Tbilisi, from 1947 to 1958.[2] He won three USSR League championships (1950, 1953, and 1954) and two USSR Cups, (1949 and 1950).

National team career

Korkia was a member of the senior

Soviet Union national basketball team, which won the silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games. He played in seven games during that tournament.[3] He later became the captain
of the senior Soviet national team.

He also won gold medals at the

1955 EuroBasket
.

Coaching career

Korkia was the head coach of Dinamo Tbilisi, when the club won the FIBA European Champions Cup (later called EuroLeague) championship, in the 1961–62 season. He was named an Honored Coach of the USSR, in 1967.

Titles won

Player

Head coach

Personal life

Korkia died in

Soviet national basketball team
player.

See also

References

  1. ^ GEORGIA LOSES LEGEND KORKIA.
  2. Fizkultura i sport
    . p. 306.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Otar Korkia Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2018.

External links

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