Maigonis Albertovich Valdmanis ( Latvian: Maigonis Valdmanis ; September 8, 1933 , Riga , Latvia - October 30, 1999 , Roy , Latvia ) - Soviet basketball player , Soviet and Latvian basketball coach. He played as a point guard .
| Maygonis Valdmanis | |
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| Latvian. Maigonis valdmanis | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| Growth | 180 cm |
| Weight | 75 kg |
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Latvia |
| Date of Birth | September 8, 1933 |
| Place of Birth | Riga , Latvia |
| Date of death | October 30, 1999 (66 years old) |
| Place of death | Roy , Latvia |
Three - time European champion ( 1957 , 1959 , 1961 ), three-time Olympic silver medalist ( 1952 , 1956 , 1960 ), three-time winner of the European Champions Cup ( 1958 , 1958/59 , 1959/60 ). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1957), Honored Coach of the Latvian SSR , Honored Coach of the USSR .
Career
Club
From 1949 to 1952 he played for Riga Dynamo [1] . With Dynamo, he became the champion of the Latvian SSR in 1951. In 1953 he became a player before [2] . He became a three-time champion of the USSR (1955, 1957, 1958) as part of the DO / SKA [1] , once won silver (1962) and bronze (1961) medals [2] .
Three times became the owner of the European Champions Cup : in the first draw of 1958 (scored 15 points in the second final match) [3] , in the draw of 1958/59 (7 points in the second final match) [4] and the draw 1959/60 (6 points in second final match) [5] .
Team
From 1952, he was a player in the USSR national team ; from 1957 to 1961, he was the team captain.
He participated in three European championships [6] , and in all three tournaments the team of the Soviet Union won. He scored an average of 7.4 points per game at the 1957 European Championship, 8.6 points per game at the 1959 European Championship, and 4 points per game at the 1961 European Championship [7] . At each of the three Olympics, he helped the USSR team achieve silver medals [1] : at the 1952 Games, he was the youngest in the Soviet team [8] , scored 6 points per game on average, and 6.6 points on average per game , and at the 1960 Games - 7.9 points [7] . Member of the 1959 World Cup [9] .
He also played for the national team of the Latvian SSR , played 79 matches for it [2] . Winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1956 [10] .
In 2006, in a survey of the newspaper Sport-Express , dedicated to the centenary of Russian basketball, he took 7th place in the list of the best point guards [11] .
Coaching
From 1964 to 1969 he trained the SKA in Riga , and from 1974 to 1991 (intermittently) - the WEF. With the WEF, he won bronze medals at the 1990/91 USSR Championship . Coached the national teams of the Latvian SSR and Latvia .
In the 1998/99 season, he headed the Buki club, leading him to the bronze of the Latvian championship [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Basketball: Reference / ed. Z. A. Genkin, E.R. Yakhontov. - M .: Physical education and sport , 1983. - S. 187.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Maigonis Valdmanis (Latvian) . Visi Latvijas olimpieši . Latvijas Olimpiskās komitejas (LOK) oficiālā mājas lapa. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
- ↑ Santiago Velasco. Champions Cup 1958 Linguasport: Sport History and Statistics. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
- ↑ Santiago Velasco. Champions Cup 1958-59 (English) . Linguasport: Sport History and Statistics. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
- ↑ Santiago Velasco. Champions Cup 1959-60 . Linguasport: Sport History and Statistics. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
- ↑ Genkin Z.A. Basketball-79. - L .: Lenizdat , 1979.- S. 72.
- ↑ 1 2 Maigonis Valdmanis's profile - 1961 European Championship for Men . ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
- ↑ Khavin B.N. Everything about the Soviet Olympians. - M .: Physical education and sport , 1985. - S. 7-8.
- ↑ Basketball: Handbook / Auto-Comp. Z. A. Genkin, E.R. Yakhontov. - M .: Physical education and sport , 1983. - S. 167.
- ↑ Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR // Basketball: Handbook / ed. Z. A. Genkin, E.R. Yakhontov. - M .: Physical education and sport , 1983. - S. 131-132.
- ↑ The best players of the century . Sport Express (October 31, 2006). Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 13, 2013.
Links
- Maigonis Valdmanis - Olympic medals and stats
- Maygonis Valdmanis - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com