Russia national basketball team

Russia Россия
FIBA Ranking	11th
Joined FIBA	1992
FIBA Zone	FIBA Europe
National Federation	RBF
Coach	David Blatt
Olympic Games
Appearances	2
Medals	None
World Championships
Appearances	4
Medals	Silver 1994, 1998
Eurobasket
Appearances	11
Medals	Gold 2007 Silver 1993 Bronze 1997, 2011
Uniforms
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The Russian national basketball team represents Russia in international basketball matches. The team came into existence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its powerful basketball team. It has won 2 silver medals in the FIBA World Championships. Its most recent success was winning gold at EuroBasket 2007 in Spain.

Russia

Russian National Basketball Team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age - DOB Ht. Club Club nat. 4.0 !PF 4 Vorontsevich, Andrey &1000000000000002400000024 - July 17, 1987(1987-07-17) 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS ! 5.0 !C 5 Mozgov, Timofey &1000000000000002500000025 - July 16, 1986(1986-07-16) 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Denver Nuggets USA ! 1.0 !PG 6 Bykov, Sergey &1000000000000002800000028 - February 26, 1983(1983-02-26) 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS ! 2.0 !SG 7 Fridzon, Vitaly &1000000000000002500000025 - October 14, 1985(1985-10-14) 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) BC Khimki RUS ! 2.0 !SG 8 Shved, Alexey &1000000000000002200000022 - December 16, 1988(1988-12-16) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS ! 4.0 !PF 9 Shabalkin, Nikita &1000000000000002400000024 - October 9, 1986(1986-10-09) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) BC Lokomotiv–Kuban Krasnodar RUS ! 3.0 !SF 10 Khryapa, Viktor &1000000000000002900000029 - August 3, 1982(1982-08-03) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS ! 3.0 !SF 11 Antonov, Semyon &1000000000000002200000022 - July 18, 1989(1989-07-18) 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Nizhny Novgorod RUS ! 3.0 !SF 12 Monya, Sergey &1000000000000002800000028 - April 15, 1983(1983-04-15) 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Khimki RUS ! 2.0 !SG 13 Khvostov, Dmitri &1000000000000002200000022 - August 21, 1989(1989-08-21) 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) BC Khimki RUS ! 1.0 !PG 14 Ponkrashov, Anton &1000000000000002500000025 - April 23, 1986(1986-04-23) 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS ! 3.0 !SF 15 Kirilenko, Andrei &1000000000000003000000030 - February 18, 1981(1981-02-18) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) PBC CSKA Moscow RUS !	Head coach David Blatt Assistant coach Dmitriy Shakulin Sergey Zharmukhamedov Legend (C) Team captain Club field describes current pro club nat field describes country of last club before the tournament Age field is age on 31 August 2011

Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Bench	Reserve	Inactive
C	Alexander Kaun	Timofey Mozgov	Alexey Zhukanenko
PF	Sergey Monya	Andrey Vorontsevich	Viktor Khryapa
SF	Vitaly Fridzon	Yevgeni Kolesnikov
SG	Sergey Bykov	Evgeny Voronov
PG	Anton Ponkrashov	Dmitri Khvostov

Competitive record

FIBA World championship

Year	Position	Pld	W	L
1950 to 1990	Did not participate
1994	02 !	8	6	2
1998	02 !	9	7	2
2002	10th	8	3	5
2006	Did not qualify
2010	7th	9	6	3
2014	–	–	–	–
Total		34	22	12

Olympic Games

Year	Position	Pld	W	L
1936 to 1996	Did not participate
2000	8th	7	3	4
2004	Did not qualify
2008	9th	5	1	4
2012	–	–	–	–
Total		12	4	8

EuroBasket

Year	Position	Pld	W	L
1935 to 1991	Did not participate
1993	02 !	9	6	3
1995	7th	9	5	4
1997	03 !	9	7	2
1999	6th	9	5	4
2001	5th	6	4	2
2003	8th	7	3	4
2005	8th	6	2	4
2007	01 !	9	8	1
2009	7th	9	5	4
2011	03 !	11	10	1
Total		85	56	29

FIBA Under-19 World Championship

Year	Position	Pld	W	L
1979 to 1995	Did not participate
1999	6th	8	5	3
2003 to 2009	Did not qualify
2011	03 !	9	5	4
Total		–	–	–

Notable players

• Sergei Panov – 2006 Euroleague champion
• Jon Robert Holden – EuroBasket 2007 champion
• Andrei Kirilenko – Was the youngest European basketball player to be drafted, EuroBasket 2007 champion and MVP; FIBA Europe Player of the Year in 2007. Flag bearer at 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony for Russia
• Viktor Khryapa – Portland Trail Blazers and Chicago Bulls (NBA), EuroBasket 2007 champion

Past rosters

1993 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 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 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)

1996 Olympic Games: did not participate

1997 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 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 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 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 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 World Championship: finished 10th among 16 teams

Andrei Kirilenko, Viktor 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 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 16 teams

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

2004 Olympic Games: did not participate

2005 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 16 teams

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

2006 World Championship: did not participate

2007 EuroBasket: finished 1st among 16 teams

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

2008 Olympic Games: finished 9th among 12 teams

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

See also

• Soviet Union national basketball team

External links

• Russian Basketball Federation Official Website (Russian)