Sergei Vladimirovich Bykov

Sergei Bykov
Player information
Full name	Sergei Vladimirovich Bykov
birthday	February 26, 1983
place of birth	Novodvinsk, Soviet Union
size	190 cm
position	Point guard
Club information
society	Lokomotiw Kuban Krasnodar
league	PBL / VTB
Clubs as active
0000–2001 Spartak Moscow 2001–2004 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2004–2005 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2005–2010 Dynamo Moscow 2010–2011 PBK CSKA Moscow 2011–2014 Lokomotiw Kuban Krasnodar 2014–2015 UNICS Kazan Since 2015 Lokomotiw Kuban Krasnodar 0
National team
Since 2007 00	Russia

Sergei Wladimirowitsch Bykov medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
European Championship
gold	2007 Spain
bronze	2011 Lithuania

Sergei Wladimirowitsch Bykow ( Russian Сергей Владимирович Быков ; born February 26, 1983 in Novodvinsk , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball player . Bykov plays the position of point guard . With the Russian national team, Bykov won the European Championship in 2007 and the bronze medal at the 2011 European Championships .

Career

Bykov played for the youth teams of Spartak Moscow and made his debut in the men's team in the 2000/01 season. He then moved to the reactivated professional club MBK Dynamo, with whom he immediately to the then highest Russian league Super League A rising. In 2004 he reached third place in the Russian championship with this club and then moved for a season to Universitet Yugra in Surgut in the West Siberian lowlands . In 2005 he returned to runner-up Dynamo Moscow and won the ULEB Cup 2005/06 with this club under the Serbian coach Dušan Ivković . In the following season they played by winning the title in the second most important European club competition before in the top European division ULEB Euroleague 2006/07 and reached the quarter-finals, where they were eliminated against the later title winner Panathinaikos Athens . In 2008 they reached third place in the Russian championship under coach Svetislav Pešić , but failed in the " Elite Eight " tournament in the ULEB Cup 2007/08 in the semifinals to Pešić 'former club Akasvasyu Girona and took third place. In the Eurocup 2008/09 , the new name of the ULEB Cup, they reached the Elite Eight tournament again, but this time they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

In 2010 Bykov moved to the dominant series champion PBK CSKA Moscow. With the new Serbian coach Duško Vujošević , however, they did not have any success in the top European division ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 and were eliminated in the preliminary round, after having reached the Final Four tournament in this competition since 2002 . With the new Lithuanian coach Jonas Kazlauskas they finally won the championship again in 2011. For the 2011/12 season Bykow moved to Lokomotiw Kuban in the Black Sea region with whom he won the 2013 Eurocup.

National team

At the European Championship finals in 2007 Bykov was the first time in the final squad of a men's selection team of the Russian Federation. When the Russian national team surprisingly won the title against hosts Spain in the final, he was only used for a few minutes in three games in the preliminary and intermediate rounds. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he was an integral part of the rotation in the Russian selection, but after only one preliminary round victory, he was eliminated before the quarter-finals. At the 2009 European Championships , the defending champions won only once in the preliminary round with the opening game and then lost to a young German national basketball team . Nevertheless, it was enough to move into the intermediate round, in which you won all games, but lost in the quarter-finals against the eventual finalists Serbia and ultimately reached seventh place. At the 2010 World Cup , they lost only one game to the quarter-finals against hosts Turkey , but were eliminated from the eventual titleholder United States despite the strongest tournament performance by Bykow, who was the top scorer of the Russian selection in this game with 17 points . In the end, like at the EM before, they finished seventh. At the EM 2011 they even won all games up to the semi-finals, including a new edition against Serbia in the quarter-finals. There they lost to France and were able to secure the bronze medal with a victory in the game for third place over the surprise team of the Macedonia tournament .

successes

• European Champion 2007
• Third in the 2011 European Championship
• Eurocup winner: 2006, 2013
• Russian champion 2011

Web links

• BYKOV, SERGEY - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Sergei BYKOV (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Sergey Bykov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )