Anatoly Polywoda

Anatolij Ivanovich Polywoda ( Ukrainian Анатолій Іванович Поливода ; born May 29, 1947 in Jenakijewe ) is a former Soviet basketball player who was Olympic gold medalist in 1968 and Olympic champion in 1972.

Athletic career

The 2.00 m tall Anatolij Polywoda played for BK Budiwelnyk Kiew . In 1967 he was Soviet champion, but with a Ukrainian national team.

In 1966 Polywoda was with the selection of the USSR Junior European Champion. From this team from 1966 with Alexander Boloschew , Micheil Korkia , Sergei Kowalenko and Anatolij Polywoda four players became 1972 Olympic champions.

Polywoda moved up to the Soviet national team in 1967 . At the 1967 World Cup in Uruguay there was a final round with seven teams: hosts Uruguay and six teams that had to qualify through the preliminary round. The team from the USSR was defeated by 58:59 against the team from the United States , but defeated the other five teams and was thus the first world championship team from Europe. Polywoda contributed with 118 points in nine games, including 16 points in the last game against Yugoslavia , to win the title. 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. Polywoda scored 121 points in nine games, four of them in the final.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the team from the USSR won their preliminary group ahead of the Brazilians . In the semifinals, the Soviet team lost to the Yugoslavs with 62:63, in the final bronze game they defeated the Brazilians with 70:53. Polywoda threw 101 points in nine games. The following year, the Soviet team reached the final of the European Championship in Italy in 1969 and won 81:72 against the Yugoslavs. Polywoda scored 66 points in seven 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. Polywoda scored 51 baskets in seven games, five 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 in the last three seconds Iwan Jadeschka passed the ball to Alexander Below , who scored the goal for 51:50. Now the Americans protested, but the jury confirmed the victory of the Soviet team. Polywoda threw 78 points in eight games, he was not used in the final.

Web links

• Anatolij Polywoda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at archive.fiba.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Listed in 1966 at archive.fiba.com
2. ↑ Medal winner at basketball world championships at sport-komplett.de
3. ↑ Player statistics from the 1967 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
4. ↑ Medal winner at the European basketball championships at sport-komplett.de
5. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1967 at archive.fiba.com
6. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 140 to 143
7. ↑ Player statistics from the 1968 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
8. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1969 at archive.fiba.com
9. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1971 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. 358 to 360 and pp. 432f, notes 652 and 655
11. ↑ Player statistics from the 1972 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com