Alshan Sharmukhamedov

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Älschan Musurbekowitsch Scharmuchamedow ( Kazakh Әлжан Мүсірбекұлы Жармұхамедов ; Russian Алжан Мусурбекович Жармухамедов ; * 2. October 1944 in the province of Tashkent , Uzbek SSR ) is a former Soviet basketball player , was the 1972 Olympic champion and 1976 Olympic was third.

Athletic career

The 2.07 m tall Älschan Sharmukhamedov was one of the players in Almaty, Kazakhstan in the 1960s who were supposed to help build their own Kazakh basketball team. In 1969 he moved to Moscow and played for CSKA Moscow from 1969 to 1979 , with this club he was Soviet champion every year except in 1975.

From 1967 to 1979 he played for the Soviet national team . In autumn 1967 the European championship took place in Finland . The team from the Soviet Union won the final against the Czechoslawak team with 89:77. Scharmuchmamedow scored 29 points in eight games, two of them in the final.

After that, he was back in the squad at a major championship in 1970. The 1970 World Cup took place in Yugoslavia and for the first time on the European continent. Six teams qualified through the preliminary round for the final round, Yugoslavia as host was set for the final round in Ljubljana. The Yugoslavs won the title, behind the Brazilians the players from the Soviet Union received the bronze medal. Sharmukhamedov scored 95 points in nine games. At the European Championships in 1971 in the Federal Republic of Germany, the team from the USSR met the Yugoslavs once again in the final and won 69:64. Sharmukhamedov scored 90 baskets in seven games in 1971, 16 of them in the final.

Up to and including 1968, Olympic basketball tournaments were always won by the United States team. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the US team won their preliminary group and the Soviet team won the second preliminary group without defeat. Both teams also won their semi-finals and met in the final on September 9th. The Americans switched to a very defensive tactic, but were still behind at half-time with 21:26. The American Doug Collins scored six seconds before the end and put his team 50:49 in front . Then the final siren sounded. After protests by the Soviet team, the clock was set to three seconds remaining and Alexander Below scored the 51:50 in the last three seconds . Now the Americans protested, but the jury confirmed the victory of the Soviet team. Sharmukhamedov scored 70 points in nine games, four of them in the final against the United States.

Only at the European Championships in 1975 in Yugoslavia was Älschan Scharmuchamedow back in the squad of the Soviet national team. There was a final round, in the last game the previously undefeated teams of Yugoslavia and the USSR met and the Yugoslavs won 90:84. Sharmukhamedov threw 59 points in seven games, four of them against the Yugoslavs. The following year the Olympic Games took place in Montreal . The USSR team won their preliminary group ahead of the Canadians . In the semifinals, the Soviet team lost to the Yugoslavs, but was able to fight for the bronze medal with a 100-72 victory over Canada. Sharmukhamedov scored 58 points in seven games, ten of them in the semi-finals and 14 in the game for third place.

Two years later, the 1978 World Cup took place in Manila . The host Philippines and the defending champion from the Soviet Union qualified directly for the final round, with six teams joining them in the preliminary round. In the final round, the Yugoslavs won all games, against the Soviet Union the game ended 105: 92. The first two in the final round met again in the final and the Yugoslavs won 82:81 over the team from the USSR. Älschan Sharmukhamedov threw 73 points in eight games, six of them in the final. At the end of his international career, he took part in the 1979 European Championship in Italy. The last three titles were won by the Yugoslavs, who this time were only third. In the final, the team from the USSR met Israel and won 98:76, with Sergei Below , Ivan Jadeschka and Älschan Scharmuchamedow still three players who had already played eight years earlier in the last European championship for the Soviet Union. Sharmukhamedov scored 56 points in eight games.

After the end of his international career, Alzhan Sharmukhamedov was still active as a player-coach for a few years and then lived in Moscow. His occasional attempts to help the Kazakh national team to greater success were unsuccessful.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Alzhan Zharmukhamedov returns home to enliven Kazakhstan national program
  2. ↑ Medal winner at the European basketball championships at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1967 at archive.fiba.com
  4. ↑ Medal winner at basketball world championships at sport-komplett.de
  5. ↑ Player statistics from the 1970 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  6. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1971 at archive.fiba.com
  7. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 358 to 360 and pp. 432f, notes 652 and 655
  8. ↑ Player statistics from the 1972 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  9. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1975 at archive.fiba.com
  10. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 579 to 581
  11. ↑ Player statistics from the 1976 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  12. ↑ Player statistics from the 1978 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  13. ↑ Player statistics of the European Championship 1979 at archive.fiba.com
personal data
SURNAME Sharmukhamedov, Alshan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharmukhamedov, Älschan Musurbekowitsch (full name); Жармухамедов, Алжан Мусурбекович (Russian); Жармұхамедов, Әлжан Мүсірбекұлы (Kazakh)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent Province , Uzbek SSR