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Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Гомельский; 18 January 1928 – 16 August 2005) was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball , he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
The Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year is an annual award of Europe's premier level basketball league, the EuroLeague, that is given to each season's best head coach. The award was first introduced in the 2004–05 season.
Aug 17, 2005 · Alexander Gomelsky, considered the father of modern basketball in the Soviet Union, who built the team that handed the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in the sport, has died after a...
Participated in 4 Olympic Games (Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, Moscow 1980 and Seoul 1988) and 5 World Championships (Rio de Janeiro 1963, Montevideo 1967, Ljubljana 1970, Manila 1978 and Colombia 1982) as head coach of the USSR National Team. Olympic Gold medalist in Seoul 1988. Olympic Silver medalist in Tokyo 1964.
Jul 10, 2017 · After he led Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul to become the first-ever Turkish club champion of Europe thanks to a pair of resounding victories at the Final Four, h...
Aug 16, 2005 · Aleksandr Gomelsky was a pioneering basketball coach in the Soviet Union, helping make them an international power. Coaching Rīgas ASK, he led them to three consecutive European Cup of Champions titles, in 1958-60, and eventually won 13 Soviet national titles.
Gomelsky coached four Soviet Olympic teams––1964, 1968, 1980, 1988––winning a silver medal in Tokyo at his first Olympiad, the gold medal in his final assignment in Seoul, and a pair of bronze medals in 1968 and 1980. He was a Soviet assistant coach for the 1956 Olympic Games.
