Soviet Union women's national basketball team

The women's national basketball team represented the USSR 1950-1991 the USSR in international competitions and friendly matches. It is the most successful women 's national team in Europe in basketball. At each tournament in which the Soviet national women took part, with the exception of the 1990 World Cup, they came in the top three. She was two -time Olympic champion, six -time world champion, and 21 times ( including 17 times in a row ) European champion.

Known players

  • Ulyana Semjonova
  • Tatjana Owetschkina
  • Angele Rupšienė

Successor teams of the former Soviet Union

Another Olympic victory for the Soviet women's team in Barcelona in 1992, when the team under the name Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) took.

In the period of political transition in Eastern Europe 1990-1992, the successor countries of the Soviet Union have established their own associations and acted as sovereign governments at the international tournaments. Among the successful nations on the territory of the former USSR are:

  • Russia: Olympic bronze in 2004, 2008 World Cup runner-up 1998, 2002, 2006; European champions in 2003, 2007, 2011
  • Ukraine: European Champion 1995
  • Lithuania: European Champion 1997
  • Belarus: EM- third in 2009
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