Evgeny Voronov
Yevgeny Sergeyevich Voronov (Russian: Евгений Сергеевич Воронов; born 7 May 1986 in Stavropol Krai, RSFSR ) is a Russian professional basketball player. Voronov played for various Russian Premier League clubs and won with ZSK WWS from Samara FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2007 and the runner-up in 2010 with the club Krasnye Krylia succession in the Euro Challenge. Since the 2011/12 season he played for the Russian series champion PBK CSKA from Moscow. For the Russian national basketball team he plays for the Basketball World Championship 2010.
Club career
2002 Voronov came into the squad of Lokomotiw from Mineralnye Vody in his home region. 2003 the club moved to Rostov and Voronov was also used from the 2004/05 season in European matches. In FIBA Europe Cup was reached in 2005, the Final Four tournament in Romania Ploiesti to play out the successor of the German winner last year means German basketball club. In the semifinals, you can still hit the national rivals Dynamo Moscow Oblast, but lost the final with a point against the hosts CSU Asesoft. The almost 19 -year-old Voronov received an application time of 32 minutes in the final. He then played with the Russian youth team at the U20 European Championship, where you first won the title in this age group on home soil for Russia. In the Russian Championship, he retired with Lokomotiw 2005 & 2006 respectively in the first round of the play -offs. In 2006, he joined the Air Force Sports Club ZSK WWS to Samara, with whom he now trading as the FIBA EuroCup Challenge contest in which he was unsuccessful in Lokomotiw two years earlier in the finals, but won in 2007, at its final staging yet. In the modified mode one was the Cypriot club Keravnos Strovolou from Nicosia clearly superior in the final second leg eventually. Together with his junior team-mate Nikita Voronov Shabalkin belonged to the starting five and the team internal Topscorern in this game. The winner of the EuroCup Challenge you stepped in the following season in the FIBA EuroCup, where they lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalists Dexia Mons- Hainaut. The play-offs at the Russian Championship you missed 2007 & 2008 just under the ninth round main square.
2008 Voronov joined UNICS Kazan, with whom he had no chance against series champion CSKA Moscow in the Russian Cup semifinal series. In the Russian Cup competition you but the final was won clearly against MBK Dynamo from the city of Moscow. In the season 2009/10 he returned to Samara in order for the newly founded association Krasnye Krylia ( German Red Wings ) to play, as the professional basketball team of the ZSK WWS had previously filed for bankruptcy and was signed off from the game. With the new club, he reached in the Euro Challenge, as now the FIBA EuroCup was said that the Final Four, where they were inferior to the German hosts BG 74 Göttingen in the final. He then moved to Dynamo Moscow, their second season played under coach Sergei Basarewitsch without legionnaires. Back together in a team with Nikita Shabalkin one was in the newly founded Russia's highest league PBL but not really competitive, and only reached the second to last place in the table. Then Dynamo was revoked the license for the major league for financial reasons and Voronov moved to local rivals and series champion CSKA Moscow. With CSKA he won in 2011 and 2012, the Russian Championship, 2012 VTB United League, and was the final of the 2012 ULEB Euro League, which was almost lost to Panathinaikos Athens.
National
Voronov was appointed times in the Russian squad for the final competition of the 2010 World Cup in Turkey, where they met after only a preliminary round loss to the host Turkish national basketball team in the quarterfinals of the tournament favorites United States for the first. After an honorable defeat against eventual winners was achieved in the placement round still in seventh place. In the squad for the European basketball championship in 2011, when Russia was third, Voronov was not appointed, but in the for the 2012 Olympics in London, where Russian team finished in third place.
Awards and achievements
- Bronze medal winner with Russia at the 2012 Olympics
- Russian champions CSKA with (3x): 2011-2013
- Winner of the VTB United League with CSKA 2012, 2013
- Russian Cup winner with UNICS 2009