Alexander Gomelsky
URL: http://www.cskabasket.com/photo/?id=0&one=1&lang=en
Position: Head Coach
Date of birth: Jan 18, 1928 Died: Aug 16, 2005 (77)
Nationality: Russia
Athlete's Career:
1948-53 - ODO LenVO;
1953-54 - ODO Riga
Coach's Career:
1949-52 – Spartak Leningrad, women;
1953-66 – ODO, OSC, KSVO, SKA Riga;
1956-59 – Team USSR, Assistant Coach;
1963-70, 76-88 – Team USSR, Head Coach;
1966-88 – CSKA Moscow;
1988-89 – Gran Canaria, Spain;
1990-91 – CSP Limoges, France;
1991 – High Five, USA
Coach's Career:
4-times European Champions Cup winner (1957-59, 71), 20-times USSR champion (1955-58, 69-74, 76-84, 88) with CSKA… Olympic champion (1988), Olympic silver winner (1956, 64), 2-times Olympic bronze winner (1968, 80), 2-times World champion (1967, 82), 8-times European champion (1959, 63, 65, 67, 69, 79, 81, 85)
Colonel. Professor, PhD of Education Sciences, International Master of Sports (1965), Merited Coach of the USSR (1956), Merited Coach of Lithuania (1982), Merited Laborer of Physical Culture in Russia (1993), FIBA referee, the Coach of the Year in USSR (1967, 1977, 1982, 1988). For his services in promoting the sport of basketball awarded by the Orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, Friendship of People, two Orders of Badge of Honor, medals. In 1995 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2007 he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame. The Euroleague annual Coach of the Year Award is named after him
