Alexander Belov
Olympic athlete
1951 – 1978
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Who was Alexander Belov?
Alexander Alexandrovich Belov was a Soviet basketball player who won the gold medal with the Soviet Union national basketball team at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, scoring the game-winning basket in the gold medal game. Belov died from a very rare disease - cardiac sarcoma, in 1978, at the age of 26. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1951
Saint Petersburg - Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- Died
- Oct 3, 1978
Saint Petersburg
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on July 23, 2013
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