Alexander Volkov (basketball)

Alexander Anatoljevich Volkov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Волков; born March 29, 1964 in Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ) is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player who played at a height of 2.06 m on the position of power forward.

Life

Alexander Volkov began his career in 1981 at Stroitel from Kiev. 1986 returned to his compatriot Alexander Belostenny to CSKA from Moscow to Stroitel back while Volkov moved to the metropolis of the central Army Sports Club of the Soviet Union. After the Lithuanian team Zalgiris Kaunas from 1985 of three times in a row won the national championship of the Soviet Union, you could win a title again in 1988 for CSKA in the final against Zalgiris. Then he returned to Stroitel and won with Belostenny for Stroitel the only Soviet state championship for a Ukrainian club. In the controversial finals in 1989 against Zalgiris you won after six runner-up for the first time the title. After the one-year stay at Stroitel Kiev Volkov In 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks where he stayed for three years. After his return to Europe Volkov played for top clubs like Panathinaikos, Olympiacos Piraeus or Milan, before he finished his career at BC Kiev in 2002.

In addition to his career as a club player Volkov belonged to the Soviet (later Russian ) national team, with which he was able to collect a number of awards. His most notable successes were the 1985 European Championship and the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988.

Alexander Volkov was in early 2008 to a circle of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euro League Basketball and / or basketball interested, actively fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe in the period 1958 to 2008, determine and subsequently in May 2008 in Madrid (Spain ) honor can. All nominated players have played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euro League basketball and belonged respectively to the most prominent ' stars' of their national league teams.

Achievements

  • Soviet champion: 1988, 1989
  • Greek champions: 1995
  • Ukrainian Champion: 2001
  • European Championship: 1985
  • European runners-up: 1987
  • Bronze medal at the European Championship: 1989
  • Vice World Champion: 1986, 1990
  • Olympic champion: 1988
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