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Sergei Belov

1944 - 2013

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Sergei Alexandrovich Belov (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Бело́в; 23 January 1944 – 3 October 2013) was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team. He is considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time, and was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow. In 1991, Belov was named by FIBA as the Best FIBA Player ever. He became the first international player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on 11 May 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Belov is the 35th most popular basketball player (down from 19th in 2019), the 720th most popular biography from Russia (down from 585th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Sergei Belov ranks 35 out of 1,757. Before him are Dean Smith, Mark Eaton, Oscar Robertson, Luka Dončić, Julius Erving, and Uljana Semjonova. After him are Giannis Antetokounmpo, Svetislav Pešić, Bob Lanier, Pat Riley, Jamaal Wilkes, and Doug Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Sergei Belov ranks 220. Before him are Péter Eötvös, Steve Fossett, Patrick Sercu, Mordechai Spiegler, Phillip Allen Sharp, and Terry Cooper. After him are Jerry Springer, Dennis Wilson, Marie-France Pisier, Kay Parker, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, and Claude Nicollier. Among people deceased in 2013, Sergei Belov ranks 126. Before him are Colin Davis, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Dokka Umarov, Marta Eggerth, Tuncel Kurtiz, and Nguyễn Khánh. After him are Alvin Lee, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Harry Reems, and Pyotr Bolotnikov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Belov ranks 720 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1854), Franz Schlegelberger (1876), Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908), Eduard Uspensky (1937), Nikolay Shvernik (1888), and Karl Lennart Oesch (1892). After him are Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Oleg Popov (1930), Yekaterina Budanova (1916), Alexander Belyaev (1884), Caran d'Ache (1858), and Sergei Sobolev (1908).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Sergei Belov ranks 1. After him are Alexander Gomelsky (1928), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Alexander Belov (1951), 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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