Nikita Alexejewitsch Schabalkin
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| Full name | Nikita Alexejewitsch Schabalkin | |
| birthday | October 10, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union | |
| size | 204 cm | |
| position | Power forward | |
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2002–2006 PBK CSKA Moscow → 2004–2005 ZSK WWS Samara 2006–2007 ZSK WWS Samara 2007–2009 BK Chimki 2009–2010 Triumph Lyubertsy 2010–2011 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2011–2013 Locomotive Kuban Krasnodar 2013 UNICS Kazan
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| Since 2006 | Russia | |
| Nikita Alexejewitsch Schabalkin medal table |
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| European Championship | ||
| gold | 2007 Spain | |
| bronze | 2011 Lithuania | |
Nikita Alexejewitsch Schabalkin ( Russian: Никита Алексеевич Шабалкин ; born October 10, 1986 in Ordzhonikidze , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball player . After training in the junior teams of the dominant Russian basketball club PBK ZSKA from Moscow , Schabalkin played for various Russian clubs. In the 2011/12 season he played for Lokomotiv Kuban from Krasnodar . With the Russian national team, Schabalkin won the European basketball championship in 2007 and won a bronze medal at the 2011 European Championships .
Career
In 2002, Schabalkin moved from the Lokomotiv youth team from Mineralnyje Vody in southern Russia to the CSKA Moscow junior team. In 2004 he showed strong performances at the U18 European Championship with 18.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, but was outdone by his teammate Nikita Kurbanow . Then Schabalkin was loaned from the Moscow Army Sports Club ZSKA to the Air Force Sports Club ZSK WWS from Samara , but initially returned to CSKA in the 2005/06 season, where he was used in only a few games at the start of the season in the men's team. In 2006, Schalbalkin went back to Samara again and won the title of the last FIBA EuroCup Challenge with ZSK WWS in the 2006/07 season . Then national coach David Blatt took him into the squad for the 2007 European basketball championship, also given his strong performance in this competition . Although Schabalkin was only used in half of the games and then not more than five minutes per game during the final tournament, in the end he was able to celebrate winning the gold medal with his teammates after the surprising final victory over hosts Spain .
For the 2007/08 season he moved back to Moscow Oblast and played for the suburban club from Khimki . With this club he reached the final series of the Russian championship against CSKA twice in a row, in which his ex-club was inferior. In the Eurocup 2008/09 they reached the final in the second most important European club competition, but lost to the Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . Schabalkin himself could not prevail in the strong team of coach Sergio Scariolo and was not used during the " Elite Eight " tournament in Turin . He also lost his place in the national team and won the silver medal with the Russian student selection at the 2009 Universiade . He then moved to Triumph after Lyubertsy , another Moscow suburb club, where he suspended most of the time in the 2009/10 season after six league games due to injury. For the 2010/11 season he moved to MBK Dynamo Moscow, where he was able to recapture a place in the national team through strong performances. Dynamo Moscow ended the season, however, on the penultimate place in the table in the newly created PBL and was excluded from another season in the Russian top division, whereupon Schabalkin ended his two-year contract and moved to Lokomotiv Kuban in Krasnodar for the 2011/12 season. With the Russian national team, Schabalkin won all games at the 2011 European Championship finals up to the semi-finals, in which they lost to France , but then defeated the surprise team of the Macedonia tournament in the game for third place and secured the bronze medal. Schabalkin himself was again only a supplementary player and was only used in three games.
Web links
- SHABALKIN, NIKITA - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Nikita SHABALKIN (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
- PBC CSKA Moscow | Team | Nikita Shabalkin - player profile on the website of CSKA Moscow (English, as of 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russia / European Championship for Men U18 2004. FIBA Europe , accessed on October 28, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Shabalkin Leads CSK VVS Samara. FIBA Europa , March 8, 2007, accessed October 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Dynamo Moscow tabs Shabalkin. Eurocupbasketball.com, accessed October 28, 2011 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schabalkin, Nikita Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шабалкин, Никита Алексеевич (Russian); Shabalkin, Nikita (English) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ordzhonikidze , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |