Sergei Belov

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Sergei Belov
Сергей Белов
Ural Great Perm
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As head coach:

Basketball Hall of Fame as player
FIBA Hall of Fame as player
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing  Soviet Union
Summer Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1972 Munich Team
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Mexico City Team
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal Team
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow Team
FIBA World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1967 Uruguay Team
Gold medal – first place 1974 Puerto Rico Team
Silver medal – second place 1978 Philippines Team
Bronze medal – third place 1970 Yugoslavia Team
FIBA Eurobasket
Gold medal – first place 1967 Finland Team
Gold medal – first place 1969 Italy Team
Gold medal – first place 1971 West Germany Team
Gold medal – first place 1979 Italy Team
Silver medal – second place 1975 Yugoslavia Team
Silver medal – second place 1977 Belgium Team
Bronze medal – third place 1973 Spain Team
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1970 Turin Team
Head coach for  Russia
FIBA World Cup
Silver medal – second place 1994 Canada
Silver medal – second place 1998 Greece
FIBA Eurobasket
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Finland

Sergei Alexandrovich Belov (

Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow
.

In 1991, Belov was named by

50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors
in 2008. In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball.

Early life

Belov was born in the village of Nashchyokovo,

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. He became an Honoured Coach of Russia in 1995, and served as President of the Russian Basketball Federation (1993–98).[4]

Career

Olympic Cauldron during the 22nd Olympics opening ceremony in Moscow, 1980

At the age of twenty, Belov made his debut in the USSR League, with the team of Uralmash Sverdlovsk, where he played from 1964 to 1967. He then played with CSKA Moscow for twelve years. With CSKA, he won the USSR League championship eleven times (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980), the USSR Cup twice (1972, 1973), and the EuroLeague

twice, in 1969 and 1971.

As a member of the senior

Summer Universiade, in 1970
, as well.

In

controversially
defeated the USA, by a score of 51–50, to win the gold.

Later life

Belov was the

Ural Great Perm. With Ural Great Perm, he won the Russian Championship title in both 2001 and 2002, the Russian Cup in 2004, and the North European League
championship in 2001.

As the head coach of the senior men's

Russian national basketball team, he won silver medals at both the 1994 FIBA World Championship and the 1998 FIBA World Championship, and the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 1997. He was also Russia's head coach at the EuroBasket 1995 and the EuroBasket 1999
.

Belov died on 3 October 2013, in Perm, Russia.[5]

Legacy

Asteroid

M.P.C. 87546).[7]

Awards and accomplishments

References and notes

  1. ^ Yardley, William (3 October 2013). "Sergei Belov, Star Guard Who Led Soviet Upset of U.S., Dies at 69". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  2. ^ Sergei Belov FIBA Profile. Fibaeurope.com (1972-09-09). Retrieved on 2011-11-02.
  3. ^ FIBA Hall of Fame page on Belov Archived 2008-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. halloffame.fiba.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-02.
  4. ^ a b Great Russian Encyclopedia (2005), Moscow: Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya Publisher, vol. 3, p. 227.
  5. ^ "Умер олимпийский чемпион по баскетболу Сергей Белов". Lenta.ru. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  6. ^ "296638 Sergeibelov (2009 SD101)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  7. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 13 September 2019.

External links

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