Sergei Anatolyevich Babkov

Sergei Babkov
Player information
Full name	Sergei Anatolyevich Babkov
birthday	5th June 1967
place of birth	Biysk, Soviet Union
size	192 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1985–1988 SKA Sverdlovsk 1988–1992 Novosibirsk locomotive 1992–1994 TVG Trier 1994–1999 Unicaja Málaga 1999–2000 Joventut de Badalona 2000–2001 Novosibirsk locomotive
National team
1992-1999	Russia
Clubs as coaches
2003–2005 Locomotive Novosibirsk 2004–2005 Russia 2006–2009 Spartak Primorye Since 2009 Locomotive Novosibirsk ( GM ) 0 0 0

Sergei Anatoljewitsch Babkov medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
World championships
silver	1994 Toronto	Russia
silver	1998 Athens	Russia
European Championship
silver	1993 Germany	Russia
bronze	1997 Spain	Russia

Sergei Anatoljewitsch Babkow ( Russian Сергей Анатольевич Бабков ; born June 5, 1967 in Biysk ( Soviet Union )) is a Russian basketball coach and former player who was a two-time runner-up as a Russian national player and won two medals at European basketball championships . From 2004 he was national coach of the Russian team for a year and a half . Before that he was also active as a player in the German basketball league from 1992 to 1994 at TV Germania from Trier .

Career as a player

societies

Babkow was initially only active for clubs from his home in the Asian part of Russia. In 1992 he followed the Russian national coach Yuri Selikhow to the German club TVG Trier and played two years in the BBL with the Soviet- Ukrainian ex-world champion Alexander Belostenny, who had moved to Trier a year earlier . This cooperation ended in 1994 when Belostenny ended his career and stayed in Trier, while Selikhow returned to his Russian homeland and Babkow moved on to the Spanish ACB league , where Belostenny had also been active for a year until 1991. Babkow played in Málaga from 1994 and won the runner-up in the play-off final series defeat against FC Barcelona in the first year , which was the longest advance the Andalusian club had made at national level up to that point. In the following seasons, you could not build on this success and Babkow moved again in 1999 within the Spanish league to the Catalan competitor Joventut from Badalona , who could not qualify for the play-offs for the championship. Babkow then let his playing career end in his south-west Siberian homeland with Lokomotiw from Novosibirsk .

National team

Babkow was under the national coaches Selikhow and Sergei Below firmly in the trunk of the Russian national team. His first final round was the European Championship in 1993 , which was also the first championship, where all successor states of the Eastern bloc states Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union , which had previously dominated in the 70s and 80s, competed separately. Russia fought their way to the final, where they lost to host Germany in the final seconds and won the silver medal. At the 1994 World Cup , all other European teams were left behind and only had to admit defeat to the dominating United States , which, like the 1992 Olympics, competed for the first time in a world championship with NBA professionals. At the following European Championship in 1995 , they disappointed with seventh place after a quarter-final defeat against regional rivals Lithuania . In the placement round they were also inferior to Italy , which would subsequently develop into a feared opponent at the European Championships for Russia. As a further consequence, one could not qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games .

At the following European Championship in 1997 , another medal was won. After eliminating hosts Spain in the quarter-finals , they lost in the semi-finals to the Italians, who had not been defeated until then. In the game for third place, they received their revenge for the preliminary round defeat against Greece analogous to the final, where title winner Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was able to make up for the preliminary round defeat against Italy. At the subsequent World Cup in 1998 , the United States competed largely without NBA professionals due to a lockout and were defeated by Russia in the semifinals in a final victory for 1994. In the final itself you could not take revenge for the preliminary round defeat after extra time against Yugoslavia and lost against this opponent after a half-time lead in the end with just two points.

The 1999 European Championship was rather disappointing when the fight for the medals was bid farewell in the quarter-finals against the eventual title holder Italy. After beating Germany in the placement round, they lost the game for fifth place against rivals Lithuania significantly. Although Russia managed to qualify for the Olympics, Babkov did not take part in the 2000 Olympics under the new national coach Stanislav Eremin and thus remained without an Olympic participation in his career.

Career as a coach

In 2003 he finally became head coach at Lokomotive for two years. In March 2004 he also took over the post of head coach of the Russian national team, which had missed the Olympic qualification one more time after 1996. At the EM 2005 they said goodbye in the quarter-finals against the eventual title holder Greece from the fight for the medals and also lost the placement games against their regional rivals Lithuania and Croatia . The qualification for the 2006 World Cup was missed and Babkow resigned from his position as national coach. He then worked for three years as the coach of Spartak Primorye from Vladivostok in eastern Siberia on the Pacific coast. After resigning from this position in 2009, he returned to Lokomotiv in Novosibirsk as a sports director .

Web links

• Serguei Babkov (RUSSIA) - Statistics of European competitions on the website of FIBA Europe (English)
• Serguei Babkov - player profile on the pages of the Liga ACB (Spanish)