BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg

BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg
Founded	2004
resolution	2006
Hall	Jubileiny Sports Complex (7,700 seats)
Homepage	http://www.dynamo-spb.ru/
president	Vladimir Rodionov
General Director	Oleg Shaposhnikov
Trainer	Fotis Katsikaris
league	Superleague Russia 2005/06: 3rd place
Colours	blue and white
home Away
successes
FIBA Europe League 2005 Fourth FIBA ​​EuroCup 2006 Third Russian championship 2006

The Basketbolny Klub Dynamo Sankt Petersburg ( Russian: баскетбольный клуб "Динамо" Санкт-Петербург ) was founded in 2004 and took over the license from Avtodor Saratov in the then highest Russian league, which is the European Superleague FIB League, Russia and now a better European club competition is known as the EuroChallenge . Already after the 2005/06 season the club ran out of money and the team was dissolved as a professional team and withdrawn from the game.

history

Under coach David Blatt they reached the Final Four tournament of the FIBA ​​Europe League in Istanbul in the first season . With the final victory over BK Kiev you won all twenty games in this competition. In the semifinals of the tournament they had already defeated their national rivals BK Chimki , against whom they were eliminated in the Russian championship as fifth in regular time in the quarter-final play-offs .

In the following season coach sheet moved to Italy to Benetton Treviso and the Greek Fotis Katsikaris took over the coaching post . Under Katsikaris, the final four of the now called EuroCup was again reached as defending champion. Dynamo and BK Chimki faced each other again in the semi-finals in the Sports Palace in Kiev , which was planned as the venue for the final tournament a year earlier. This time Chimki, whose squad included German international Ademola Okulaja , won the semi-finals in this international competition, while Dynamo finally lost the game for third place against hosts BK Kiev, who had been defeated in the final a year earlier. In the national Russian championship they lost the semi-final series in five games against Khimki and reached third place here.

Squad

Squad Dynamo 2004 to 2006

player Nat. Surname Seasons position size Year of birth / David Bluthenthal 2004 Power forward 201 cm 1980 Anatoly Goritskov 2004/05 center 212 cm 1985 Dramir Sibirov 2004-2006 Point guard 187 cm 1986 Igor Krotenkov 2004/05 center 210 cm 1983 / Ed Cota 2004/05 Point guard 187 cm 1976 Andrei Ivanov 2004-2006 Shooting Guard 194 cm 1984 Vladimir Shevel 2004/05 Shooting Guard 200 cm 1984 Kelly McCarty 2004-2006 Small forward 201 cm 1975 Jón Arnór Stefánsson 2004/05 Shooting Guard 196 cm 1982 Denis Chloponin 2004-2006 Power forward 207 cm 1981 Vladimir Weremejenko 2004-2006 Power forward 206 cm 1984 Mate Milisa 2004/05 center 209 cm 1976 Ognjen Aškrabić 2004-2006 Power forward 207 cm 1979 Andrei Sepelew 2004/05 Forward 206 cm 1973 Viktor Keiru 2005/06 Shooting Guard 200 cm 1984 Damir Miljković 2005/06 Shooting Guard 194 cm 1980 Jamal McCullough 2005/06 Point guard 179 cm 1973 Alexei Surovtsev 2005/06 Shooting Guard 200 cm 1984 Darryl Middleton 2005/06 Power forward 202 cm 1966 Taras Osipov 2005/06 center 212 cm 1983 Artem Zabelin 2005/06 center 214 cm 1988 Grigory Chizhnyak 2005/06 center 216 cm 1974 Mikhail Kautin 2005/06 center 217 cm 1986

Trainer Nat. Surname function season / David sheet Head coach 2004/05 Fotis Katsikaris Head coach 2005/06

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jeff Taylor (PA International): The Amazing Year Of Dynamo St Petersburg. FIBA Europa , April 29, 2005, accessed January 30, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Final Four Team Preview: Dynamo Return To Final Four. FIBA Europa, April 7, 2006, accessed January 30, 2012 .