Sergei Alexandrovich Belov was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team.
15 Facts About Sergei Belov
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Sergei Belov is considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time, and was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow.
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In 1991, Belov was named by FIBA as the Best FIBA Player ever.
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Sergei Belov became the first international player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on 11 May 1992.
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Sergei Belov was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.
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Sergei Belov was born in the village of Nashchyokovo, Shegarsky District, Tomsk Oblast, Soviet Union.
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Sergei Belov became an Honoured Coach of Russia in 1995, and served as President of the Russian Basketball Federation.
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At the age of twenty, Sergei Belov made his debut in the USSR League, with the team of Uralmash Sverdlovsk, where he played from 1964 to 1967.
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Sergei Belov then played with CSKA Moscow for twelve years.
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Sergei Belov helped them to become the FIBA World Cup champions in 1967 and 1974, and the EuroBasket champions in 1967,1969,1971, and 1979.
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Sergei Belov won the Summer Universiade, in 1970, as well.
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Sergei Belov was the head coach of CSKA Moscow, with whom he won the USSR League championship in 1982 and 1990.
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Sergei Belov was the head coach of Ural Great Perm.
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Sergei Belov was Russia's head coach at the EuroBasket 1995 and the EuroBasket 1999.
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Sergei Alexandrovich Belov died on 3 October 2013, in Perm, Russia.