National basketball team of the USSR
The national basketball team of the USSR represented the USSR in international competitions and friendly matches between 1947 and 1990 . With 14 titles at European championships, the team is still the most successful team in Europe.
The Soviet team was also one of the favorites at tournaments around the world. The team was able to become world champions three times and Olympic champions twice.
Eurobasket (European Championships)
- 1946 in Geneva , ( Switzerland ): did not participate
- 1947 in Prague , ( Czechoslovakia ): gold medal
- 1949 In Cairo , ( Egypt ): did not take part
- 1951 in Paris , ( France ): gold medal
- 1953 in Moscow , ( USSR ): gold medal
- 1955 in Budapest , ( Hungary ): bronze medal
- 1957 in Sofia , ( Bulgaria ): gold medal
- 1959 in Istanbul , ( Turkey ): gold medal
- 1961 in Belgrade , ( Yugoslavia ): gold medal
- 1963 in Breslau , ( Poland ): gold medal
- 1965 in Moscow and Tbilisi , ( USSR ): gold medal
- 1967 in Helsinki and Tampere , ( Finland ): gold medal
- 1969 in Naples , ( Italy ): gold medal
- 1971 in Essen and Böblingen , ( FRG ): Gold medal
- 1973 in Barcelona , ( Spain ): bronze medal
- 1975 in Belgrade , ( Yugoslavia ): silver medal
- 1977 in Liège , ( Belgium ): silver medal
- 1979 in Gorizia , ( Italy ): gold medal
- 1981 in Prague , Bratislava and Havířov , ( Czechoslovakia ): gold medal
- 1983 in Limoges , Caen and Nantes , ( France ): silver medal
- 1985 in Karlsruhe , Leverkusen and Stuttgart , ( FRG ): Gold medal
- 1987 in Athens , ( Greece ): silver medal
- 1989 in Zagreb , ( Yugoslavia ): bronze medal
World championships
- 1950 in Buenos Aires , Argentina : did not participate
- 1954 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil : did not take part
- 1959 in Santiago de Chile , Chile : 6th place
- 1963 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil : bronze medal
- 1967 in Montevideo , Uruguay : gold medal
- 1970 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia : bronze medal
- 1974 in San Juan , Puerto Rico : Gold medal
- 1978 in Manila , Philippines : silver medal
- 1982 in Cali , Colombia : gold medal
- 1986 in Barcelona , Saragossa and other cities, Spain : silver medal
- 1990 in Buenos Aires , Argentina : silver medal (without players from Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia )
Olympic games
- 1948 in London , Great Britain : did not take part
- 1952 in Helsinki , Finland : silver medal
- 1956 in Melbourne , Australia : silver medal
- 1960 in Rome , Italy : silver medal
- 1964 in Tokyo , Japan : silver medal
- 1968 in Mexico City , Mexico : bronze medal
- 1972 in Munich , FRG : gold medal
- 1976 in Montreal , Canada : bronze medal
- 1980 in Moscow , USSR : bronze medal
- 1984 in Los Angeles , USA : did not participate
- 1988 in Seoul , South Korea : gold medal
Successor teams to the Soviet Union
Under the name Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a team competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and took fourth place. However, this place is counted separately and not counted towards the USSR.
After that, basketball associations of their own were founded in most of the former Soviet republics, which participated in European, world championships and Olympic Games with varying degrees of success. The most successful successor teams are:
- Russia : European Champion 2007, European Championship silver 1993, European Championship bronze 1997, 2011; World Cup silver 1994, 1998; Olympic bronze 2012
- Lithuania : European Champion 2003, European Championship silver 1995, European Championship bronze 2007; Olympic bronze in 1996, 2000
Awards
The Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport voted the Soviet national team in 1979 " World Team of the Year ".
See also
- National basketball team of the USSR (women)
- Russian national basketball team (men)
- Russian national basketball team of women