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Alexander Belov

1951 - 1978

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Alexander Alexandrovich Belov, commonly known as Sasha Belov (November 9, 1951 – October 3, 1978), was a Soviet basketball player. During his playing career, he played at the center position. Belov is most remembered for scoring the game-winning basket of the gold medal game of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games, which gave the gold medal to the senior Soviet national team. In 1978, when just 26 years old, Belov died of cardiac sarcoma, a type of cancer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Belov is the 127th most popular basketball player (down from 110th in 2019), the 1,742nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,729th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Belov ranks 127 out of 1,757. Before him are Paul Arizin, Velimir Perasović, Billy Evans, George Gervin, Heino Kruus, and Don Nelson. After him are Bob McAdoo, Predrag Danilović, Larry Brown, Reggie Miller, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, and Dominique Wilkins.

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Among people born in 1951, Alexander Belov ranks 361. Before him are Guy Lafleur, Luther Vandross, Patricia Wettig, Sebastian Francis, Heinrich Schiff, and Freundel Stuart. After him are Marco Antônio, Bob McAdoo, Philippe Van Parijs, Pam Dawber, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, and Carme Elías. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Belov ranks 181. Before him are Theo Lingen, Léon Damas, Gene Tunney, O. E. Hasse, Jiří Skobla, and Ralph Metcalfe. After him are Carlos Torre Repetto, Philip Ahn, Ethelda Bleibtrey, Giuseppe Impastato, Victor Hasselblad, and Baltasar Albéniz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 1,742 out of 3,761. Before him are Vitaly Bianki (1894), Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868), Oleg Atkov (1949), Gennady Khazanov (1945), Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (1966), and Boris Shilkov (1927). After him are Nikolai Semashko (1874), Leonid Filatov (1946), Anatoly Kvashnin (1946), Yuri Vizbor (1934), Igor Severyanin (1887), and Evgeni Plushenko (1982).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 5. Before him are Sergei Belov (1944), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), and Tatyana Ovechkina (1950). After him are Gennadi Volnov (1939), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), Alexey Shved (1988), Timofey Mozgov (1986), and Yekaterina Lisina (1987).

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