Gennady Georgievich Wolnow

Gennadi Wolnow
Player information
Full name	Gennady Georgievich Wolnow
birthday	November 28, 1939
place of birth	Moscow , Soviet Union
date of death	July 15, 2008
Place of death	Konakovo , Tver Oblast , Russia
size	201 cm
position	Power forward , center
Clubs as active
1957 Spartak Moscow 1958–1970 CSKA 1971 Burewestnik Moscow 1972 Dynamo Moscow0000 0000 0000
National team
1959-1972	Soviet Union

Gennadi Georgijewitsch Wolnow medal table
Basketball (men)
Soviet Union
Olympic games
silver	Rome 1960	USSR
silver	Tokyo 1964	USSR
bronze	Mexico City 1968	USSR
gold	Munich 1972	USSR
World championships
bronze	Brazil 1963	USSR
gold	Uruguay 1967	USSR
European championships
gold	Turkey 1959	USSR
gold	Yugoslavia 1961	USSR
gold	Poland 1963	USSR
gold	Soviet Union 1965	USSR
gold	Finland 1967	USSR
gold	Italy 1969	USSR

Gennadi Georgijewitsch Wolnow ( Russian Генна́дий Гео́ргиевич Вольно́в ; English transcription Gennadi Georgiyevich Volnov ; born November 28, 1939 in Moscow , Soviet Union ; † July 15, 2008 in Konakowo ) was a Soviet basketball player . As a player, Wolnow became Olympic, world and European champions with the national basketball team of the USSR . He was one of the most successful basketball players of his time.

Career in the club

The career of Gennady Wolnow began in 1957 in the highest Soviet league with Spartak Moscow . After just one year, he was appointed to CSKA Moscow . He spent thirteen successful years at CSKA. With ZSKA he won the European Cup three times . There were also eight Soviet championships. After the official end of his career, he played for one year each with Burewestnik and Dynamo Moscow. His jersey with the number 13 hangs under the roof of the ZSKA universal sports hall , where ZSKA plays its home games.

Career in the national team

The first major tournament in the national team for Wolnow was the 1959 European Championship in Turkey, which he won with the Soviet Union team. In addition to this European title, there were five more titles in a row. He was elected to the MVP of the tournament at the EM 1965 and EM 1969 . He was equally successful with the Soviet Union at the World Championships. While only third place was achieved in the final result at the 1963 World Cup , Wolnow managed to win the title with the USSR at the next World Cup in 1967 . At this tournament he was again elected MVP. Gennadi Wolnow was a participant in a total of four Olympic tournaments. After the Olympic Games in Rome and Tokyo , which were successful with silver medals and a bronze medal in Mexico , Wolnow's career in the national team seemed to be coming to an end. For the 1970 World Cup , he was removed from the squad at short notice. Somewhat surprisingly, he was selected for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Here he was one of the starting five in eight out of nine games. The victory in the final against the USA was his greatest sporting success.

Career after sport

In 1970 Wolnow began teaching at the Military Academy for Radiological, Chemical and Biological Weapons in Kostroma . There he was appointed lecturer and later professor.

successes

• Olympic champion 1972
• Olympic runner-up in 1960, 1964
• Olympic third in 1968
• World Champion 1967
• Third place in the World Cup in 1963
• European champion (6 times) 1959–1969
• Soviet champion (8 ×): 1959, 1961–1966, 1969
• European Champion Clubs' Cup (3 ×): 1961, 1963, 1969
• MVP of the 1967 World Cup
• MVP of the European Championship 1965, 1969

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Вольнов Геннадий Георгиевич (1939-2008) ( Memento from June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Overview of participation in international competitions in the FIBA player archive
• Biography in Russian on RIA.ru