Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko

Valery Tikhonenko
Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko
Player information
Full name	Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko
birthday	19th August 1964
place of birth	Angren (Uzbekistan) , Soviet Union
size	207 cm
position	Forward
NBA draft	1986 , 157. Pick Atlanta Hawks
Clubs as active
1985–1987 CSKA 1988–1990 SKA Alma-Ata (basketball) 1990–1991 CB Valladolid 1991–1992 Unicaja Ronda 1992–1993 CB Peñas Huesca 1993–1994 BK Spartak Moscow 1994–1997 ZSK WWS Samara 1997– Arsenal Tula 1997–2000 ZSKA 000 0
National team
1984-1992 1992-1998	Soviet Union / CIS Russia
Clubs as coaches
2000–2002 CSKA 2004–2005 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2005–2009 ZSK WWS Samara 2009–2010 Russia (women) Since 2011 BK Astana (General Director) 0

Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko medal table
Basketball (men)
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Seoul 1988	USSR
World championships
silver	Spain 1986	USSR
silver	Argentina 1990	USSR
European championships
gold	Germany 1985	USSR
silver	Athens 1987	USSR
bronze	Zagreb 1989	USSR

Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
World Championship
silver	Athens 1998	Russia

Valery Alexeyevich Tikhonenko medal table
Basketball (women) as a coach
Russia
European Championship
silver	Latvia 2009	Russia

Valeri Alexejewitsch Tichonenko ( Russian Вале́рий Алексе́евич Тихоне́нко ; born  August 19,  1964 in Angren , Soviet Union ) is a Russian basketball function, coach and former Soviet Russian player. As a player, Tichonenko was a national player of the Soviet Union and the United Team at the Olympic Games , was Olympic champion in 1988, three times vice world champion and in 1985 European champion. At club level, he won three Russian championships with CSKA Moscow. As a coach, he was Vice European Champion with the Russian national women's team in 2009. He is currently General Director of the Kazakh club BK Astana , which plays in the VTB United League .

Career as a player

Until the end of the 1984 season, Tikhonenko played in the capital of the Kazakh SSR at SKA Alma-Ata. From the legendary Soviet coach Alexander Gomelski he was appointed to CSKA Moscow in Moscow in 1985 and practically in the same year to the Soviet national team. With the Soviet team he became European champion in 1985. During his time at CSKA he was three times second in the Soviet championship behind Žalgiris Kaunas . Although drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986 , he remained in the Soviet Union and returned to his hometown club in Alma-Ata in 1988. He led the club from the second division to third place in the championship in 1989. At the same time he remained in the squad of the national team and won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988 in a team with Arvydas Sabonis and Rimas Kurtinaitis . Two years later, now without a Lithuanian teammate, he led the Soviet team as captain to win the silver medals at the 1990 World Cup. After the World Cup, he moved to the Spanish league for the next three years. He returned to Russia in 1993. After a year at BK Spartak Moscow , he went to ZSK WWS Samara for three years . At the end of his playing career, he played three years at CSKA with which he won three Russian championships in a row.

Career as a coach

His first coaching position was CSKA Moscow from 2000 to 2002. He then did internships in the USA, among others with the Dallas Mavericks . After returning to Russia he was first assistant and then head coach at the Russian club Dynamo Moscow, with whom he reached second place in the 2005 Russian championship. He then went to Samara as a trainer at ZSK WWS, where he stayed until 2009. During this time he succeeded in winning the FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2007. Parallel to his club activities, he took over the Russian women's national team in 2008, which he led to second place at the European Championship in 2009. In 2010 he finished his last coaching job.

Career as a functionary

In autumn 2010, Tichonenko was offered the formation of a professional club in his second home, Kazakhstan. As general director, he built up the professional club BK Astana based on Astana Tigers , which won the Kazakh Cup and the Kazakh Championship in the first year of its existence and achieved some respectable successes in the VTB United League.

successes

As a player

• Olympic champion in 1988
• European Champion 1985
• World Cup runner-up (3 ×): 1986, 1990, 1998
• European Championship runner-up: 1987
• European Championship third: 1989
• Russian champion (3 ×): 1998, 1999, 2000.
• Second in the Soviet championship (3 ×): 1985, 1986, 1987.
• Third in the Soviet championship: 1989.
• Third in the Russian championship: 1995.

As a trainer

• Second in the Russian championship: 2005.
• Second in the European Women's Championship: 2009.

Web links

• Valery Tikhonenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Valeri TIKHONENKO (CIS) - Overview of participation in international competitions in the FIBA player archive
• 100 лет российского баскетбола: история, события, люди: справочник / Автор-составитель В. Б. Квасков ISBN 5-9718-0175-9 (Russian).

• Валерий Тихоненко: "О прошлом, настоящем и будущем" - V. Tikhonenko: "About the past, present and future". (Russian)
• Тихоненко Валерий Алексеевич - player archive on cskalogia.ru (Russian)
• статья о спортсмене Валерии Тихоненко - biography (Russian)