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Alexander Gomelsky
Personal information
Born	18 January 1928; Kronstadt, Soviet Union
Died	16 August 2005 (aged 77); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Soviet / Russian
Career information
NBA draft	1950: undrafted
Playing career	1948–1954
Coaching career	1949–1991
Career history
As player:
1948–1953	ODO LenVO
1953–1954	ASK Riga
As coach:
1949–1952	Spartak Leningrad (women)
1953–1966	ASK Riga
1956–1959	Soviet Union (assistant)
1963–1970	Soviet Union
1966–1988	CSKA Moscow
1976–1988	Soviet Union
1988–1989	Tenerife
1990–1991	CSP Limoges
Career highlights and awards
	As a head coach Basketball Hall of Fame (1995); FIBA Hall of Fame (2007); 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008);
	Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
	FIBA Hall of Fame as player
Men’s Basketball
Representing the Soviet Union
FIBA World Cup

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Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky (Russian: Гомельский, Александр Яковлевич; 18 January 1928 – 16 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach of Jewish origin.^[1]

Coaching career

Gomelsky began his coaching career in 1948, in Leningrad, with LGS Spartak. In 1953, he became the coach of ASK Riga, an army club, leading the team to five Soviet Union League titles, and three consecutive European Champions Cups (EuroLeague), from 1958 to 1960.

In 1969, he was appointed the head coach of CSKA Moscow, where he coached until 1980, leading the club to 9 Soviet Union national league championships (1970–1974, 1976–1979), 2 Soviet Union Cups (1972–1973), and one European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) title in 1971. He also led the club to two more European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) finals, in 1970, and 1973.

He also coached in Spain, France, and the United States.

Soviet Union national team

Gomelsky coached the senior Soviet Union national team for almost 30 years, leading them to 6 EuroBasket titles (1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1979, and 1981), 2 FIBA World Cup titles (1967, and 1982), and the Summer Olympic Games gold medal in 1988.

He was originally the Soviet national team head coach in 1972, and was expected to coach the team at the 1972 Summer Olympic games, but the KGB confiscated his passport, fearing that, since Gomelsky was Jewish, that he would defect to Israel.^[2] The Soviet team, with Vladimir Kondrashin as their coach, won their first Olympic gold medal that year, in a controversial game against the United States national basketball team.

Post coaching career

In his later years, Gomelsky was the president of CSKA Moscow. In 1995, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame. The EuroLeague's annual Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year award is named after him, and so is Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA.^[3] In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.

Bibliography

A. Ya. Gomelsky (1985). Team Management in Basketball (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.

References

^ YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR Archived 29 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.
^ Aleksandr "Sascha" Gomelsky. Jewishsports.net. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.
^ Professional Basketball Club CSKA Moscow. Cskabasket.com. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.

External links

Alexander Gomelsky at acb.com
Alexander Gomelsky at halloffame.fiba.com

[1] YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR Archived 29 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.

[2] Aleksandr "Sascha" Gomelsky. Jewishsports.net. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.

[Club_CSKA_Moscow-3] Professional Basketball Club CSKA Moscow. Cskabasket.com. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.

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+'''Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky''' ({{lang-ru|Гомельский, Александр Яковлевич}}; 18 January 1928 – 16 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian professional [[basketball]] [[Coach (basketball)|coach]] of Jewish origin.<ref>[http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |date=29 April 2015 }}. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved on 31 October 2016.</ref>
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