Ivan Jadeschka

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Ivan Ivanovich Jadeschka ( Belarusian weißван Ядэшка ; Russian Иван Иванович Едешко ; born March 25, 1945 in Stetsky , Hrodna district , Belarusian SSR ) is a former Soviet basketball player who was Olympic champion in 1972 and world champion in 1974.

Athletic career

The 1.96 m tall point guard Ivan Jadeschka began his career at Spartak Minsk and only moved to CSKA Moscow in 1971 , where he stayed until 1977. From 1977 on he played mostly at CSKA Kiev, but was again at CSKA Moscow in 1979/1980. With CSKA Moscow he won eight Soviet championship titles.

From 1971 to 1979 Jadeschka was a member of the Soviet national team in almost all major tournaments . At the European Championship in 1971 in the Federal Republic of Germany, the team from the USSR met the Yugoslavs in the final and won 69:64. Jadeschka scored 58 baskets in seven games, six 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 Jadeschka passed the ball to Alexander Below , who scored the goal at 51:50. Now the Americans protested, but the jury confirmed the victory of the Soviet team. Jadeschka threw 49 points in nine games.

At the European Championships in Spain in 1973 , the Soviet team missed the finals with a semi-final defeat against Spain for the first time since 1955 and received bronze after a 90:58 against the Czechoslawak team . Jadeschka scored 58 points in eight games. The following year the 1974 World Cup took place in Puerto Rico. Host Puerto Rico and defending champion Yugoslavia were directly qualified for the final round, plus six teams that had qualified through the preliminary round. The team from the USSR had prevailed together with the Brazilians in preliminary group 1. In the final round, the Yugoslavs won 82:79 against the Soviet Union, the team from the United States won 91:88 against Yugoslavia. In the last game, the team from the USSR had to win by more than three points over the US selection to become world champions, it was a 105: 94. Jadeschka scored 78 points in nine games, including four against the United States.

At the European Championship in 1975 in Yugoslavia there was a final round, in the last game the previously unbeaten teams of Yugoslavia and the USSR met each other and the Yugoslavs won 90:84. Jadeschka threw 38 points in seven games, 14 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. Jadeschka scored 51 points in seven games.

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. Ivan Jadeschka scored 56 points in eight games, four 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. Jadeschka scored 20 points in eight games.

In 2017 Jadeschka was honored with a certificate of honor by the NOK of Belarus.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Medal winner at the European basketball championships at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1971 at archive.fiba.com
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Player statistics from the 1972 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  5. ↑ Player statistics of the European Championship 1973 at archive.fiba.com
  6. ↑ Medal winner at basketball world championships at sport-komplett.de
  7. ↑ Player statistics from the 1974 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  8. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1975 at archive.fiba.com
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ Player statistics from the 1976 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  11. ↑ Player statistics from the 1978 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  12. ↑ Player statistics of the European Championship 1979 at archive.fiba.com
  13. ↑ Pictures from the award ceremony
personal data
SURNAME Jadeschka, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jadeschka, Ivan Ivanovich (full name); Едешко, Иван Иванович (Russian); Ядэшка, Іван (Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetski , Hrodna Raion , Belarusian SSR