Yegor Ivanovich Wjalzew

Yegor Wjalzew
Player information
Full name	Yegor Ivanovich Wjalzew
birthday	October 10, 1985
place of birth	Voronezh, Soviet Union
size	193 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Club information
society	BK Khimki
league	PBL / VTB
Jersey number	9
Clubs as active
2002–2004 PBK CSKA Moscow 2004–2005 ZSK WWS Samara 2005–2007 Ural Great Perm 2007–2011 Triumph Lyuberzy Since 2011 BK Chimki 0
National team
Since 2007 00	Russia

Yegor Ivanovich Wjalzew ( Russian Егор Иванович Вяльцев ; born October 10, 1985 in Voronezh , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball player . Wjalzew played as a junior for the dominant Russian basketball team PBK CSKA from Moscow and won the Russian championship with this team. After working for various other Russian clubs, he has been playing for the VTB winner and Russian runner-up BK Chimki since the 2011/12 season . With the Russian national team Wjalzew took part in the 2009 European Basketball Championship .

Life

Wjalzew was a member of the respective Russian youth selection teams in his age groups and moved to the junior team of CSKA Moscow in 2002 after the U18 European Championship from Pulkowo from Saint Petersburg . After CSKA had failed to win the Russian championship title twice before, all of which they have otherwise won since 1990, they became Russian champions again in 2003. Subsequently, Wjalzew was also used in the first men's team in the 2003/04 season. He was allowed to participate in four games in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 . After CSKA was able to defend its title, Wjalzew moved from the "Army Sports Club" CSKA to the "Air Force Sports Club " ZSK WWS in Samara . Here he was loaned to Ural Great from Perm after almost half of the season , who in 2001 & 2002 won the only two other Russian championship titles that were not won by CSKA. After Wjalzew won the title at the U20 European Championship in 2005 with the Russian junior selection, he was taken under regular contract by Ural Great for the following two seasons. With his teammates, including the 14-year-old former vice world champion Vasily Karassjow , he won the smaller European club competition FIBA EuroCup Challenge in the final series against the Ukrainian club Chimik from Juschne in 2006 . In the Russian championship Ural Great already had the best times behind them and in 2006, like a year before, retired in the first play-off round of the Russian championship. In 2007 they even missed the play-offs under the new coach Rimas Kurtinaitis and Wjalzew moved back to the Moscow area to triumph from Lyubertsy , who had succeeded the Dynamo Oblast Moscow club .

With Triumph Lyuberzy Wjalzew was eliminated in the first play-off round in 2008 against Dynamo from the city of Moscow. In each of the following two seasons, the first round of the Russian championship play-offs was the final destination after losing to UNICS Kazan . It went better for Wjalzew personally. After he had previously only been used in qualifying and friendly matches by national coach David Blatt , he appointed him to the final squad of the Russian national team at the 2009 European Basketball Championship . However, the Russian team as defending champions struggled and only won the opening game in the preliminary round. After winning all three games in the newly introduced intermediate round, they lost the quarter-finals against the eventual finalists Serbia and ended up seventh. Wjalzew himself was used in the finals only in four of nine games and in these no more than three minutes per game. In 2010 a new top division was formed in Russia. For Triumph, the first season in the Professionalnaja Basketbolnaja League was disappointing when they were bottom of the table of ten teams at the end of the season. Wjalzew moved for the 2011/12 season to another suburban club in Moscow, the Russian runner-up and title holder of the VTB United League 2011 from Khimki , where he will be trained by Rimas Kurtinaitis again. With BK Chimki they dropped out somewhat surprisingly in the qualification for the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 and therefore played internationally in the Eurocup 2011/12 , which they won at the end of the season as host of the Final Four tournament. In 2015 he won the Eurocup for a second time with Chimki.

Awards and Achievements

• Winner ULEB Eurocup with BK Chimki 2012, 2015

Web links

Commons : Egor Vyaltsev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• VYALTSEV, EGOR - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Egor VYALTSEV (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Egor Vyaltsev - Basketball Club Khimki - player profile on the pages of BK Chimki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russia / U20 European Championship Men 2005. FIBA Europe , accessed on November 4, 2011 (English, overview with team line-up).