Kristjan Kangur

Kristjan Kangur
Player information
birthday	October 23, 1982
place of birth	Parnu, Soviet Union
size	202 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
Club information
society	Openjobmetis Varese
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number	14th
Clubs as active
2000–2004 Ehitustööriist Tallinn 2004–2006 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2006–2009 BC Kalev / Cramo 2009–2010 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2010 Canadian Solar Bologna 2010–2012 Cimberio Varese 2012–2013 Montepaschi Siena 2013–2014 EA7 Milan Since 2014 Openjobmetis Varese 00000 0
National team
Since 02002	Estonia

Kristjan Kangur (born October 23, 1982 in Pärnu , Estonian SSR ) is an Estonian basketball player . Kangur played for a long time for BC Kalev in his home country, with whom he was once national champion in 2009 and twice cup winners. This time was only interrupted by his first international stint at Bayer Leverkusen, for which he played two seasons in the German basketball league . Since 2009 Kangur has been playing abroad again; After a season with the then French champions ASVEL, he has been playing in Italy since 2010 , where he won the national championship once with Montepaschi Siena and Olimpia Milano. He has been playing for their competitor Openjobmetis Varese since the 2014/15 season.

Career

Kangur first played with Ehitustööriist in the Estonian capital Tallinn , a club founded in 1998 in the highest Estonian league. In 2004 he left the club and moved to Germany to the Bayer Giants from Leverkusen . The German record champions wanted to distinguish themselves as a "talent factory" and increasingly focused on young players. After only narrowly reaching the play-offs for the German championship in the previous two seasons, the 2004/05 basketball Bundesliga missed the championship finals for the first time in decades. In the following season, Basketball Bundesliga 2005/06 , things did not go any better and the play-offs were again clearly missed. Kangur could hardly use the time in Leverkusen to attract attention, even if his playing time increased from ten minutes per game to an average of fifteen minutes in the second season.

In 2006 Kangur returned to Tallinn, where his former club was now called BC Kalev and had previously won the national double twice. While you could not defend the championship title in the episode, you also won the two following cup competitions in Estonia. It was not until 2009 that the title could no longer be defended in this competition, but Kangur won the championship again for Kalev together with his former Leverkusen teammate Nate Fox , which meant Kangur's first championship in Estonia. Then Kangur dared to jump abroad again and switched to the French record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne . In the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 , ASVEL was eliminated prematurely in the six-team preliminary group A in an unusual direct comparison between four teams. The defending champion of the LNB Pro A won the national league cup "Semaine de As", but as ninth in the table just missed the play-offs for the national championship. Then Kangur played the championship play-offs in Italy for Virtus Canadian Solar from Bologna . In the play-offs, however, they just missed out in five games of the quarter-finals.

For the 2010/11 season, Kangur stayed in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and moved to the traditional club from Varese , which in 2011 reached the championship play-offs for the first time after being promoted again in 2009 and, like Virtus Bologna, also in the play-off quarter-finals a year earlier retired. At Cimberio Varese he was one of the top performers and for the first time abroad achieved an average of more than 20 minutes playing time per game as well as a good ten points and an average of five rebounds . In the following season you had to play in the first round of the play-offs against serial champion Montepaschi Siena, against whom you lost after a win in four games. For the following season 2012/13 Kangur was finally committed by Siena. In the summer of 2012, Kangur missed participation in a European Championship finals with the Estonian national team for the fifth time in a row . Very narrowly they were eliminated in the qualifying round only because of the poorer direct comparison with Serbia and Israel . With Siena, Kangur lost the " Supercoppa " against Pallacanestro Cantù at the start of the 2012/13 season , but won the national cup final against his former club from Varese in February 2013. In the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 they just missed the quarter-final play-offs. Despite a moderate regular season in the national championship, it was possible to defend the championship title for Siena in the play-offs. After the club's financial problems, the team broke up and Kangur switched to league rivals EA7 from Milan , with whom he became champions in the first season. In the summer of 2014, Kangur returned to Varese.

Web links

• Kangur, KRISTJAN - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Kristjan KANGUR (EST) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Legabasket: Kristjan Kangur - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• easyCredit BBL - Kristjan Kangur - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kristjan Kangur - Lyon-Villeurbanne - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on February 11, 2013 (French, profile with statistics as of 2010). 
2. ↑ EA7 MILAN signs Kangur at forward. (No longer available online.) ULEB , September 3, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on October 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.