Petar Skansi

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Petar Skansi (born November 23, 1943 in Sumartin , Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav basketball player who was world champion in 1970 and Olympic runner-up in 1968, and coach.

Career as a player

The 2.06 m tall Petar Skansi first took part in a major international championship in 1965. At the European Championships in 1965 in the Soviet Union, the USSR team won the final with 58:49 over the Yugoslavs. Skansi scored 15 points in five games in this tournament. In 1967 at the World Cup in Uruguay there was a final round with seven teams. The team from the Soviet Union won the tournament, making it the first world championship team from Europe. Behind them, three teams, Yugoslavia, Brazil and the United States, achieved four wins in the final round. The Yugoslavs lost to the Soviet Union and Uruguay , but defeated Brazil and the United States. Because of the direct comparison, the Yugoslavs received the silver medal. Skansi scored 46 points in nine games. Four months later at the European Championships in 1967 , Radivoje Korać and Ivo Daneu, the two best-scoring players in the World Cup, were not there, the Yugoslav team finished ninth. Skansi scored 93 points in nine games.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the Yugoslavs finished second in the preliminary round behind the team from the United States. After a semi-final victory over the Soviet Union, the Yugoslavs lost the final against the US team. Skansi threw 59 points in nine games, 15 of them in the semi-finals and five in the final. In 1969 Skansi was not on the squad at the 1969 European Championships in Italy. At the end of his international career, Petar Skansi took part in the 1970 World Cup in Yugoslavia. The final round with seven teams took place in Ljubljana. Yugoslavia won five out of six games and was only defeated by the Soviet Union in the last game, at which point the Yugoslavs were already established as world champions. Skansi was the most successful thrower of his team behind Krešimir Ćosić with 57 points in six games .

Petar Skansi played at KK Split and was Yugoslav champions with this club in 1971.

Career as a coach

After the end of his career he was first player-coach and then coach at KK Split. He led the club in 1976 and 1977 to win the Korać Cup . From 1977 he was assistant coach of the Yugoslav national team when he won the European championship title in 1977 and the world championship title in 1978. In 1979, as head coach, he led the Yugoslav team to third place at the European championship .

From 1981 to 1983 Skansi was a coach at Scavolini Pesaro in Italy. 1982 Pesaro lost the playoff final against Billy Milano , 1983 Pesaro was eliminated in the playoff semifinals against the team from Milan. In 1983 Pesaro won the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup . In the 1984/1985 season Skansi trained Honky Fabriano and finished last in the league. 1987/1988 he trained Hitachi Venezia and reached eleventh place. In 1988/1989 he was twelfth with Phonola Roma . From 1990 to 1993 Skansi coached Benetton Treviso for three seasons . After elimination in the playoff quarter-finals in the first year, he won the Italian championship in 1991/1992 and lost in the 1992/1993 final against Knorr Bologna . 1997/1998 he returned eleven games before the end of the regular season again in the Italian league and reached the playoff final with the Bologna team system , but was defeated there by the local rivals Kinder Bologna . In 1998/1999 Skansi's team was eliminated in the playoff semifinals against Treviso.

In 1992 Skansi acted as the coach of the Croatian national team when winning the Olympic silver medal .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Medal winner at the European basketball championships at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1965 at archive.fiba.com
  3. ↑ Medal winner at basketball world championships at sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Player statistics from the 1967 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  5. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1967 at archive.fiba.com
  6. ↑ Player statistics from the 1968 Olympic Games at archive.fiba.com
  7. ↑ Yugoslavian contingent of the EM 1969 at archive.fiba.com, the compilation 1969 and 1971 at sport-komplett.de is therefore not correct.
  8. ↑ Player statistics from the 1970 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  9. ↑ Korać Cup 1975/1976 and 1976/1977
  10. ↑ European Championship 1979
  11. ^ Coach profile in the Italian league
  12. ↑ 1992 Olympic Games
personal data
SURNAME Skansi, Petar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or Croatian basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sumartin , Yugoslavia