Micheil Korkia

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Micheil Korkia (born September 10, 1948 in Kutaisi , † February 7, 2004 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet basketball player who was Olympic champion in 1972 and Olympic runner-up in 1976.

Athletic career

The 1.96 m tall shooting guard Micheil Korkia played for BK Dinamo Tiflis from 1965 to 1979 . With this club he was the 1968 Soviet champion.

In 1966 Korkia was with the selection of the USSR Junior European Champion. From this team from 1966 with Alexander Boloschew , Micheil Korkia, Sergei Kowalenko and Anatolij Polywoda four players became 1972 Olympic champions. Boloschew, Korkia and Polywoda belonged to the Soviet national team in 1971 , which faced the Yugoslavs in the final at the European Championships in 1971 in the Federal Republic of Germany and won 69:64. Korkia scored 31 baskets in six games.

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 Iwan Jadeschka passed the ball to Alexander Below , who scored the goal for 51:50. Now the Americans protested, but the jury confirmed the victory of the Soviet team. Korkia threw 45 points in nine games, four of them in the final.

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. Korkia threw 47 points in seven games, five 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. Korkia scored 44 points in seven games. At the European Championships in Belgium in 1977, the Yugoslavs won the final against the USSR team with 74:61. Korkia scored 51 points in seven games.

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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 EM 1975 at archive.fiba.com
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ Player statistics from the 1976 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  8. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1977 at archive.fiba.com
personal data
SURNAME Korkia, Micheil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kutaisi
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2004
Place of death Tbilisi