Russia national basketball team

Russia Russia
FIBA ranking 7 Steady
Joined FIBA 1992
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation RBF
Coach Evgeniy Pashutin
Olympic Games
Appearances 3
Medals Bronze: 2012
FIBA World Cup
Appearances 4
Medals Silver: 1994, 1998
EuroBasket
Appearances 12
Medals Gold: 2007
Silver: 1993
Bronze: 1997, 2011
Uniforms
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The Russian national basketball team represents Russia in international basketball matches. It is organized and run by the Russian Basketball Federation. (Russian: Россия Федерация Баскетбола)

The team came into existence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its powerful basketball team.

It has won 2 silver medals at the FIBA World Cup. Its most recent success was winning bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[1]

History

As the heir of the immensely successful USSR national basketball team, Russia still produces many elite basketball players and celebrated international titles on several occasions. Yet, the team sometimes struggles to live up to its enormous expectations.

At the 2011 EuroBasket in Lithuania, after a bitter struggle with the Macedonian national team, Russia won the bronze medal. Overall, the Russian team finished the tournament having suffered only one defeat in 11 matches, which was against France in the semifinals. Standout player Andrei Kirilenko was honored as one of the tournament's best players.

Because of this result, the Russian team did not win the right to qualify directly for the Olympic tournament in London but had to take part in the 2012 qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Venezuela 2–8 July. Russia won all the qualifying matches and booked its ticket to London.

At the Olympic Games in 2012, the Russians won their first Olympic medal. The team was able to get out of the group from the first place, having suffered only one defeat in an already insignificant match against Australia (80:82). In the quarterfinals they played against the Lithuanians (83:74), but in the semifinals, the Russian team lost to Spain (59:67). In the match for third place, the Russians beat Argentina, the winners of the Olympics 2004, (81:77) and won the bronze medal. Andrei Kirilenko, leader of the team in scoring and rebounding, entered the first 'Team Olympiad', awarded by the TV channel ESPN.

30 October 2012, David Blatt decided to leave the post of head coach of Russia.

Blatt's departure caused some struggles for Russia, which had to go through a complete revamp but managed to qualify for the 2015 EuroBasket.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Year Position Pld W L
1936 to 1996Did not participate
Australia 20008th734
Greece 2004Did not qualify
China 20089th514
United Kingdom 20123rd862
Brazil 2016Did not Qualify
Total201010

World

FIBA Basketball World Cup
Year Position Pld W L
1950 to 1990Did not participate
Canada 19942nd862
Greece 19982nd972
United States 200210th835
Japan 2006Did not qualify
Turkey 20107th963
Spain 2014Did not qualify
China 2019Suspended
Total342212

EuroBasket

Year Position Pld W L
1935 to 1991Did not participate
Germany 19932nd963
Greece 19957th954
Spain 19973rd972
France 19996th954
Turkey 20015th642
Sweden 20038th734
Serbia and Montenegro 20058th624
Spain 20071st981
Poland 20097th954
Lithuania 20113rd11101
Slovenia 201321st514
France 201517th514
2017Banned
Total955837

Team

Current roster

Roster for the Eurobasket 2015.

Russia men's national basketball team roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr.
PF 1 Zubkov, Andrey 24 – (1991-06-29)29 June 1991 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban Russia
SG 4 Baburin, Evgeny 28 – (1987-07-04)4 July 1987 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) BC Nizhny Novgorod Russia
C 5 Pateev, Ruslan 25 – (1990-04-25)25 April 1990 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) BC Khimki Russia
G 7 Fridzon, Vitaly 29 – (1985-10-14)14 October 1985 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) PBC CSKA Moscow Russia
SG 9 Vyaltsev, Egor 29 – (1985-10-10)10 October 1985 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Khimki Russia
F 11 Antonov, Semyon 26 – (1989-07-18)18 July 1989 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Nizhny Novgorod Russia
SF 12 Monia, Sergei 32 – (1983-04-15)15 April 1983 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Khimki Russia
PG 13 Khvostov, Dmitry 26 – (1989-08-21)21 August 1989 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) BC Nizhny Novgorod Russia
SG 14 Ponkrashov, Anton (C) 29 – (1986-04-23)23 April 1986 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) UNICS Kazan Russia
PF 20 Vorontsevich, Andrey 28 – (1987-07-17)17 July 1987 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) PBC CSKA Moscow Russia
C 32 Desiatnikov, Andrei 21 – (1994-05-04)4 May 1994 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) B.C. Zenit Saint Petersburg Russia
F 41 Kurbanov, Nikita 28 – (1986-10-05)5 October 1986 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) PBC CSKA Moscow Russia
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 5 September 2015

Depth chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench
C Timofey Mozgov Sasha Kaun Ruslan Pateev
PF Andrey Vorontsevich Victor Khryapa Nikita Kurbanov
SF Sergey Monya Sergey Karasev
SG Alexey Shved Vitaly Fridzon Egor Vyaltsev
PG Dmitri Khvostov Anton Ponkrashov

Notable players

Andrei Kirilenko is the captain of Team Russia

Past rosters

1993 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 2nd among 16 teams

Sergei Bazarevich, Vasili Karasev, Sergei Babkov, Mikhail Mikhailov, Andrei Fetisov, Sergei Panov, Vitali Nosov, Dimitri Chakulin, Maksim Astanin, Vladislav Kondratov, Dimitri Sukharev, Vladimir Gorin (Coach: Yuri Selikhov)

1994 FIBA World Championship: finished 2nd among 16 teams

Vasili Karasev, Sergei Bazarevich, Mikhail Mikhailov, Sergei Babkov, Andrei Fetisov, Sergei Panov, Vitali Nosov, Evgeni Kisurin, Igor Grachev, Dimitri Domani, Evgeni Pashutin, Sergei Ivanov (Coach: Sergei Belov)

1995 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 7th among 14 teams

Vasili Karasev, Sergei Bazarevich, Sergei Babkov, Mikhail Mikhailov, Andrei Fetisov, Igor Kudelin, Dimitri Domani, Evgeni Kisurin, Evgeni Pashutin, Sergei Ivanov, Sergei Panov, Vitali Nosov (Coach: Sergei Belov)

1997 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 16 teams

Vasili Karasev, Sergei Babkov, Mikhail Mikhailov, Andrei Fetisov, Evgeni Kisurin, Vitali Nosov, Sergei Panov, Igor Kudelin, Evgeni Pashutin, Zakhar Pashutin, Dimitri Chakulin, Igor Kurashov (Coach: Sergei Belov)

1998 FIBA World Championship: finished 2nd among 16 teams

Vasili Karasev, Valeri Tikhonenko, Sergei Babkov, Mikhail Mikhailov, Sergei Panov, Vitali Nosov, Igor Kudelin, Zakhar Pashutin, Evgeni Kisurin, Dimitri Domani, Nikita Morgunov, Igor Kurashov (Coach: Sergei Belov)

1999 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 6th among 16 teams

Vasili Karasev, Valeri Tikhonenko, Sergei Babkov, Igor Kudelin, Ruslan Avleev, Sergei Panov, Vitali Nosov, Aleksander Petrenko, Evgeni Kisurin, Evgeni Pashutin, Igor Kurashov, Zakhar Pashutin (Coach: Sergei Belov)

2000 Summer Olympic Games: finished 8th among 12 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, Andrei Fetisov, Sergei Bazarevich, Evgeni Kisurin, Sergei Chikalkin, Nikita Morgunov, Evgeni Pashutin, Zakhar Pashutin, Ruslan Avleev, Sergei Panov, Valentin Kubrakov, Aleksander Bashminov (Coach: Stanislav Eremin)

2001 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 5th among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, Nikita Morgunov, Sergei Panov, Igor Kudelin, Sergei Chikalkin, Evgeni Pashutin, Zakhar Pashutin, Anton Yudin, Aleksei Savrasenko, Aleksander Bashminov, Aleksander Miloserdov, Petr Samoylenko (Coach: Stanislav Eremin)

2002 FIBA World Championship: finished 10th among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, Victor Khryapa, Vasili Karasev, Nikita Morgunov, Aleksei Savrasenko, Aleksander Bashminov, Sergei Panov, Igor Kudelin, Sergei Chikalkin, Evgeni Pashutin, Zakhar Pashutin, Ruslan Avleev (Coach: Stanislav Eremin)

2003 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 8th among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, Victor Khryapa, Vasili Karasev, Sergei Monya, Aleksei Savrasenko, Dimitri Domani, Zakhar Pashutin, Denis Ershov, Fedor Likholitov, Mikhail Solovev, Valentin Kubrakov, Petr Samoylenko (Coach: Marco Antonio de Venetis)

2005 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 8th among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, J.R. Holden, Victor Khryapa, Nikita Morgunov, Aleksei Savrasenko, Sergei Monya, Zakhar Pashutin, Anton Ponkrashov, Fedor Likholitov, Vitaly Fridzon, Petr Samoylenko, Andrei Ivanov (Coach: Sergei Babkov)

2007 FIBA EuroBasket: finished 1st among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, J.R. Holden, Victor Khryapa, Nikita Morgunov, Aleksei Savrasenko, Zakhar Pashutin, Petr Samoylenko, Sergei Monya, Anton Ponkrashov, Nikolay Padius, Nikita Shabalkin, Sergei Bykov (Coach: David Blatt)

2008 Summer Olympic Games: finished 9th among 12 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, J.R. Holden, Victor Khryapa, Nikita Morgunov, Aleksei Savrasenko, Sergei Monya, Zakhar Pashutin, Petr Samoylenko, Sergei Bykov, Viktor Keirou, Andrey Vorontsevich, Vitaly Fridzon (Coach: David Blatt)

Kit

Manufacturer

1993: Reebok

2015: Adidas[2]

Sponsor

2015: Norilsk Nickel[2]

See also

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ http://scores.espn.go.com/olympics/boxscore?gameId=1171
    2. 1 2 Russia | EuroBasket 2015 - PHOTO GALLERY, eurobasket2015.org, Retrieved 12 October 2015.

    External links

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