Uļjana Semjonova

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Uļjana Semjonova (left)

Uļjana Semjonova ( Russian Ульяна Ларионовна Семёнова , Uljana Larionovna Semjonowa; born March 9, 1952 in Zarasai , Lithuanian SSR ) is a former Latvian basketball player .

Career

The parents lived in Medumi, near Daugavpils . At the age of 13, the tall Uļjana moved to Riga . She began her basketball training there under the guidance of her first coach August Robbery. In 1967 Semjonova - now under the guidance of the coach Viktors Strupovics - won her first gold medal with the student selection team of the Latvian SSR in the student partakiade of the USSR . At the age of 15 she was already playing in the adult team.

From 1967 to 1989, the 2.12 m tall Semjonova played in the Riga women's basketball team, the TTT Rīga . This team has been immortalized in the Guinness Book of Records as an 18-time European Cup winner . Her shoe size 58 was also record-breaking.

From 1968 to 1986 Semjonova played in the national team of the USSR. Semjonova is 15-time USSR champion, 10-time European champion, 3-time world champion and 2-time Olympic basketball champion.

On May 10, 1993, she was nominated as the first European woman for the basketball hall of fame in Springfield, Massachusetts . In 1995 she received the honorary diploma of the International Fair Play Committee. Semjonova has been President of the Latvian Olympians' Social Fund since 1991. In 1995 she was honored as an officer of the three-star order for her services .

literature

  • Ivars Ošiņš: Latvijas olimpiskais tents, sudrabs, bronza. Lauku avīze, 2008, ISBN 978-9984-827-07-0 , pp. 30-35

See also

Web links

Uljana Semjonova in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (in English).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Uļjana Semjonova & Inita Kresa: Kad es biju laimīga . Latvian Olympic Committee, Riga 1996, ISBN 9984-10-001-4 , p. 8 .
  2. ^ Gazetta dello Sport, photo series
  3. ↑ Comparison with Bill Russell (shoe size 52) . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 8, 2010 ; accessed on November 8, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.la.lv
personal data
SURNAME Semjonova, Uļjana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Семёнова, Ульяна Ларионовна (Russian); Semyonova, Ulyana Larionovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zarasai , Lithuanian SSR