By Oz Porat & Vytautas Kaminskas
Founded in: 1941
Russian basketball has probably the biggest traditions in the world. Russia (Soviet Union) was unstopable for almost 50 years till 1990. It would be hard to tell all titles they've won.
Now, Russian basketball is not such a dominant force, but their team still isn't weak. Russia has a strong league, but Russian players do not make big influence in Russian club basketball results. Still, Russians have a good basketball school, structure, so they can expect for new basketball stars in a few upcoming years.
Titles
World Gold 1967, 1974, 1982, Silver 1978, 1986, 1990
European Gold 1947, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1979, 1981, 1985, Silver 1975, 1977, 1987, Bronze 1955, 1973, 1985, 1989
Olympic Gold 1972, 1988, Silver 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, Bronze 1976, 1980
The Russian National Team Roster:
Coach: Sergei Elevitch
Andrei Kirilenko 204-F-81
Aleksander Miloserdov 196-G-80
Alexei Savrasenko 215-C-78
Dmitri Domani 200-F-74
Fedor Likholitov 209-F-80
Mihail Solovjev 207-C-73
Petr Samoylenko 186-G-77
Sergei Monya 205-F-83
Valentin Kubrakov 195-G-72
Viktor Khryapa 205-F-82
Vasili Karassev 192-G-71
Zakhar Pachoutine 195-G-74
Other National Team Players:
E Pashutin
V Karassev
Eurobasket 2003 Results:
Finished at 8th place.
Game for 7th and 8th place:
2003-09-14 11:00:00 Russia - Israel 82 - 89
Games for 5th to 8th place:
2003-09-12 Russia - Serbia & Montenegro - 77 - 86
Quarterfinal round:
2003-09-10 France - Russia - 76 - 69
Elimination games:
2003-09-08 Russia - Croatia - 81 - 77
Preliminary round:
2003-09-05 Serbia & Mont. - Russia - 80 - 95
2003-09-06 Russia - Spain - 77 - 89
2003-09-07 Sweden - Russia - 71 - 92
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