Sergei Nikolayevich Tarakanov

Sergei Tarakanov
Player information
Full name	Sergei Nikolayevich Tarakanov
birthday	April 25, 1958
place of birth	Lodeinoje Pole , Soviet Union
size	201 cm
position	Small forward
Clubs as active
1975–1979 Spartak Leningrad 1979–1990 ZSKA 1990–1991 BG Ludwigsburg 1991–1992 St.Louis Liege
National team
1979-1990	Soviet Union

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Tarakanow medal table
Basketball (men)
Soviet Union
Olympic games
bronze	Moscow 1980	USSR
gold	Seoul 1988	USSR
World championships
gold	Colombia 1982	USSR
silver	Spain 1986	USSR
European championships
gold	Italy 1979	USSR
gold	Czechoslovakia 1981	USSR
bronze	France 1983	USSR
gold	Germany 1985	USSR
silver	Greece 1987	USSR
bronze	Yugoslavia 1989	USSR

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Tarakanow ( Russian Сергей Николаевич Тараканов ; born April 19, 1958 in Lodeinoje Pole , Leningrad Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet basketball player . As a player, Tarakanov became Olympic, world and European champions with the national basketball team of the USSR . He is currently working as a certified FIBA ​​player advisor.

Career in the club

Sergei Tarakanov's career in the highest Soviet league began in 1975 with Spartak Leningrad . With Spartak he won the Soviet Cup in 1978 and got his first invitation to the Soviet national team. With the call-up to the national team came, as was customary at the time, the “call-up” to CSKA Moscow . With CSKA Tarakanow initially won five national titles in a row. Then he was three times with CSKA second in the Soviet championship behind Žalgiris Kaunas . He managed to win the Soviet championship two more times with CSKA. At the end of his career he went to Europe and played a year in the Bundesliga in 1990/91 with BG Ludwigsburg and his last season in Belgium.

Career in the national team

The first major tournament in the national team's squad was the 1979 European Championship in Italy for Tarakanov . He was used in 6 of 8 games and became European champion for the first time. At the home Olympics in 1980 Tarakanow was used in all games and won the bronze medal with his team. At the next tournament, the 1981 European Championship in Czechoslovakia, he and his team repeated the success of 1979 and became European champion for the second time. At the 1982 World Cup in Colombia, Tarakanow won the gold medal with the Soviet Union. It was the first world title for Tarakanov and the last for the USSR. After he was only able to take third place with the Soviet team at the 1983 European Championship , he won the third European Championship title at the 1985 European Championship in Germany. Tarakanov won his last and biggest title at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, when he was Olympic champion in a team with Sabonis , Kurtinaitis , Marčiulionis . After the Olympic victory, he ended his career in the national team.

successes

• Olympic champion in 1988
• Third at the Olympics in 1980
• World Champion 1982
• World Cup second in 1986
• European champion (3 ×) 1979, 1981, 1985
• European Championship runner-up: 1987
• European Championship third: 1983
• Soviet champion (7 ×): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990.
• Soviet cup winners (2 ×): 1978, 1982

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Serguei TARAKANOV (RUSSIA) FIBA ​​license n °: 2009006333. (No longer available online.) FIBA.com, April 22, 2013, archived from the original on May 1, 2013 ; accessed on April 22, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Overview of participation in international competitions in the FIBA player archive