Oleksandr Volkov

Oleksandr Volkov
Player information
birthday	March 29, 1964 (56 years 154 days)
place of birth	Omsk , Russian SFSR
size	206 cm
position	Power forward
NBA draft	1986 , 134. Pick, Atlanta Hawks
Clubs as active
1981–1986 Stroitel Kiev 1986–1988 CSKA Moscow 1988–1989 Stroitel Kiev 1989–1992 Atlanta Hawks 1992–1993 Viola Reggio Calabria 1993–1994 Panathinaikos Athens 1994–1995 Olympiacos 2000–2002 BK Kiev
National team
1985-1991 000001998	Soviet Union Ukraine

Oleksandr Volkov medal table
Basketball (men)
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1988 Seoul
World championships
silver	1986 Spain
silver	1990 Argentina
European Championship
gold	1985 Germany
silver	1987 Athens
bronze	1989 Zagreb

Oleksandr Volkov Anatolijowytsch ( Ukrainian Олександр Анатолійович Волков ; Russian Александр Анатольевич Волков Alexander Anatolyevich Volkov * 29. March 1964 in Omsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian basketball player and politicians of Russian descent. With a height of 2.06 m he played in the position of power forward .

Career

Volkov began his career in 1981 with Stroitel from Kiev . In 1986 his compatriot Alexander Belostenny returned to Stroitel from CSKA in Moscow , while Volkov moved to the central army sports club of the Soviet Union in the metropolis. After the Lithuanian team of Žalgiris Kaunas had won the national championship of the Soviet Union three times in a row from 1985, they could again win a title for CSKA in the final against Zalgiris in 1988. He then returned to Stroitel and won together with Belostenny for Stroitel the only Soviet national championship for a Ukrainian club. In the controversial finals against Zalgiris in 1989, they won the title for the first time after six runners-up. After the one-year stay at Stroitel Kiev Volkov In 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks , where he stayed three years. After his return to Europe, Volkov played for top clubs such as Panathinaikos Athens , Olympiacos Piraeus and Milan, before ending his career at BC Kiev in 2002 .

In addition to his career as a club player, Volkov belonged to the Soviet (later Ukrainian) national team, with which he collected several awards. His most significant successes were the 1985 European Championships and the 1988 Olympic gold medal in Seoul .

At the beginning of 2008, Oleksandr Volkov was one of a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euroleague basketball and / or basketball enthusiasts to determine fifty important figures in the sport of basketball in Europe who were active in the period 1958 to 2008 and subsequently in May 2008 in Madrid ( Spain ). All the nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euroleague basketball and were each one of the particularly outstanding "stars" of their national league teams.

From 2006 to 2014 Volkov was a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament.

successes

• Soviet champion: 1988, 1989
• Greek champion : 1995
• Ukrainian champion: 2001
• European Champion : 1985
• Vice European Champion: 1987
• Bronze medal at a European championship: 1989
• Vice world champion : 1986 , 1990
• Olympic Champion: 1988

Web links

Commons : Oleksandr Anatolijowytsch Volkov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexander Volkov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Players - Alexander Volkov (UKR). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.