Alexander Belov

Alexander Alexandrovich Belov (Russian: Александр Александрович Белов) (November 11, 1951 in Leningrad – October 3 1978) was a Soviet basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics, scoring the winning basket in the extremely controversial gold medal game with no time left. He was the star player of Spartak Leningrad, leading the club to the Soviet national league title in 1975, and three European Saporta Cup finals, in 1971, 1973 and 1975, winning the last two. Belov died from a very rare disease - cardiac sarcoma in 1978. He was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.

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v • d • e 1972 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball – Soviet Union

Anatoli Polivoda \| Modestas Paulauskas \| Zurab Sakandelidze \| Alzhan Zharmukhamedov \| Aleksandr Boloshev \| Ivan Edeshko \| Sergei Belov \| Mikheil Korkiya \| Ivan Dvorny \| Gennadi Volnov \| Alexander Belov \| Sergei Kovalenko \| Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin

v • d • e 1976 Olympic Bronze Medalists Men's Basketball – Soviet Union

Vladimir Arsamaskov \| Aleksandr Salnikov \| Valeri Miloserdov \| Alzhan Zharmukhamedov \| Andrei Makeyev \| Ivan Edeshko \| Sergei Belov \| Vladimir Tkachenko \| Anatoli Myshkin \| Mikheil Korkiya \| Aleksandr Belov \| Vladimir Zhigily \| Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin

v • d • e Soviet Union squad - 1974 FIBA World Championship Champions - Gold medal

4 Pavlov \| 5 Paulauskas \| 6 Miloserdov \| 7 Salnikov \| 8 Boloshev \| 9 Edeshko \| 10 Belov \| 11 Tomson \| 12 Chartschenkov \| 13 Belov \| 14 Sigili \| 15 \| Coach: Kondrashin