Viktor Sanikidze

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Viktor Sanikidze
CAI Zaragoza
2014–2015UNICS Kazan
2015–2016TED Ankara Kolejliler
2016Aris Thessaloniki
Career highlights and awards
  • Georgian League
    All-Star Game MVP (2008)
  • Georgian League Slam Dunk Champ (2008)
  • Estonian League Slam Dunk Champ 2009
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at Basketball-Reference.com
Viktor Sanikidze
Member of the Parliament of Georgia
Assumed office
December 11, 2020
Personal details
NationalityGeorgian
Political partyGeorgian Dream (September 2020-present)

Viktor Sanikidze (alternate spelling: Victor)

power forward
positions in his entire career.

Early years

Sanikidze began his basketball career with the Academy Tbilisi youth teams in the Georgian Republic. In the 2001–02 season, Sanikidze attended and played basketball for Globe Tech Junior College in New York City. In the 2002–03 season, he returned home to Georgia, to play once again for Academy Tbilisi.

Professional career

Europe

In 2003, Sanikidze signed with

FIBA Europe Cup (later renamed FIBA EuroCup Challenge), at the time he joined the team. JDA Dijon made the FIBA Europe Cup finals, where they lost to Mitteldeutscher
, during Sanikidze's first season with the club. He spent three seasons in France (2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06).

Sanikidze spent the 2006–07 season with the

FIBA EuroCup
(later renamed to EuroChallenge), at the time he joined the team. He missed the entire the 2007–08 season due to injury.

Sanikidze joined the

Montepaschi Siena.[2]

On September 20, 2013, he signed a one-year deal with the Spanish club

Turkish League.[5]

On September 6, 2016, Sanikidze signed with the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki for the 2016–17 season.[6]

NBA

Sanikidze was selected with the 42nd pick of the

Rocky Mountain Revue Summer League, scoring 15 points in a Spurs loss to the Philadelphia 76ers' summer league squad.[8][9]

Georgian national team

Sanikidze played with the Republic of Georgia's junior national teams. With Georgia's junior teams, he played at the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship,[10] and also at the 2006 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B.

He has also been a member of the senior

EuroBasket 2009 Division B
.

He also played in the EuroBasket 1st Division tournaments of EuroBasket 2011, EuroBasket 2013, and EuroBasket 2015.[11]

Basketball Executive career

On August 24, 2019, the Aris Thessaloniki announced that Sanikidze had returned as a sports director.[12][13]

Political career

On September 10, 2020, Sanikidze was named the 13th number on the Georgian Dream party list for the 2020 parliamentary elections.[14]

Since December 11, 2020, Sanikidze is a member of

Parliament of Georgia,[15] and currently serving as first deputy chairperson of the Sports and Youth Issues Committee.[16]

Personal life

Sanikidze had a kid called Nikala.[17]

References

  1. ^ Victor SANIKIDZE #31 POWER FORWARD Birth: 01 Apr 1986 (30 years old) Height: 203CM / 6'8".
  2. Euroleague
    . Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  3. ^ "CAI ZARAGOZA announces Viktor Sanikidze". Eurocupbasketball.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Unics Kazan lands forward Sanikidze". Eurolague.net. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. ^ "TED Kolejliler Ankara signs Viktor Sanikidze". Sportando.com. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  6. ^ "ARIS inks Victor Sanikidze". arisbc.gr. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  7. ^ Trade details from NBA.com.
  8. ^ Rocky Mountain notebook: Horford proving "he is ready for this level".
  9. ^ Jazz guards take their shot.
  10. ^ Profile at NBA.com.
  11. ^ Viktor SANIKIDZE (GEO) participated in 14 FIBA / FIBA Zones events.
  12. ^ "Ο Βίκτορ Σανικίτζε επιστρέφει στην οικογένεια του ΑΡΗ". Aris B.C. on Facebook.com (in Greek). 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  13. ^ "Viktor Sanikidze is the new sports director of Aris BC". eurohoops.net. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Who's Who on Georgian Dream's Electoral Lineup?". civil.ge. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  15. ^ "Viktor Sanikidze - Parliament of Georgia". parliament.ge. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Sitting of Sports and Youth Issues Committee". parliament.ge. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  17. ^ "Welcome to this world my boy - Nikala". Viktor Sanikidze on Instagram. 16 April 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 16 April 2019.

External links

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