Valery Grigoryevich Goborov
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Valery Grigoryevich Goborov | |
| birthday | 20th January 1966 | |
| place of birth | Kherson , Soviet Union | |
| date of death | September 7, 1989 | |
| Place of death | Moscow, | |
| size | 211 cm | |
| position | center | |
| Clubs as active | ||
–1985 SKA Kiev 1985–1989 CSKA
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| National team | ||
| 1987-1989 | Soviet Union | |
| Valery Grigoryevich Goborov medal table |
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Basketball (men) |
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Soviet Union
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| Olympic games | ||
| gold |
 Seoul 1988
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USSR |
| European championships | ||
| silver |
 Greece 1987
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USSR |
| bronze |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia 1989
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USSR |
Valery Goborov ( Russian Валерий Григорьевич Гоборов ; English transcription: Valery Grigoryevich Goborov * 20th January 1966 in Kherson , † 7. September 1989 in Moscow ) was a Soviet basketball player. He played on the position of the center and was a member of the Soviet national team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul .
Career
Valery Goborov started playing basketball in a sports boarding school in Kiev . First he played at SKA Kiev. He came to CSKA Moscow at the age of nineteen . He was Soviet runner-up three times in a row from 1985 to 1987 behind Žalgiris Kaunas and in 1988 Soviet champion. At the EM 1987 he was appointed to the national team and won the silver medal there. He celebrated his greatest triumph in 1988 when he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul as a member of the Soviet national team, in which, however, as the third center player, he got little playing time. After Viktor Pankraschkin was not considered for reasons of age and Arvydas Sabonis no longer wanted to play for the Soviet Union, Goborov was to be established as the new top center of the Soviet Union. He was only one more bronze medalist at the EM 1989 . Two months later, Goborov died in a car accident at the age of 23.
successes
- Olympic champion in 1988
- Second in the European Championship in 1989
- Third at the 1983 European Championship
- Master of the Soviet Union: 1988
- Vice-Champion of the Soviet Union (3 ×): 1985–1987
Web links
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Valery GOBOROV (URS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
- Взлетел, но не зажегся - memories of a basketball career (Russian)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Goborov, Valery Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гоборов, Валерий Григорьевич (Russian); Goborov, Valery Grigoryevich (English) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kherson |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1989 |
| Place of death | Moscow |