Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky

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Alexander Jakowlewitsch Gomelski ( Russian Александр Яковлевич Гомельский , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Jakovlevič Gomel'skij ; born January 18, 1928 in Kronstadt , Soviet Union ; † August 16, 2005 in Moscow ) was a Soviet basketball coach. He led the Soviet national team five times as a basketball coach at the Olympic Games . His greatest triumph was winning the gold medal in 1988 in Seoul . His child is Vladimir Alexandrovich Gomelsky.

Life

Gomelski began his coaching career as a player-coach at SKA Leningrad at the age of 17 , where he stayed until 1952. He then coached the Latvian ASK Riga for 13 years until he moved to the CSKA Moscow army club in 1966 , which he coached for 22 years and of which he was president.

As a coach of the Soviet national team Gomelski worked (with interruption) from 1958 to 1988. At the Olympic Games he won bronze twice (1968 and 1980), once silver (1964) and once gold (1988). He also won the title at the basketball world championships in Uruguay in 1967 and in Colombia in 1982, and third place in 1963 and 1967. Under his leadership, the Soviet team became European champions in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1979 and 1981.

Alexander Gomelski has edited several books on basketball. In May 1995 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield / Massachusetts (USA), the most prestigious basketball museum in the world. Gomelski is considered the father of modern basketball in the former Soviet Union and is one of the most important coaches in the history of European basketball , alongside Cesare Rubini , Aleksandar Nikolić and Antonio Díaz-Miguel .

In 2007 he was also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame as one of the first trainers .

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SURNAME Gomelski, Alexander Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomelski, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2005
Place of death Moscow