Gennadi Georgievich Volnov (November 28, 1939 – July 15, 2008) was a Russia

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n basketball

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 player who played for the Soviet Union national basketball team

Soviet Union national basketball team

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 from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. He was born in Moscow

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Volnov won the gold medal playing for the Soviet

Soviet Union

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 basketball team in the 1972 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

-Group B:-Medal bracket:-Classification brackets:5th–8th Place9th–12th Place13th–16th Place Forfeited match.-Gold Medal Match controversy:...

. He won two silver medals at the 1960

Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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 and 1964 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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 and a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics

-Group B:October 13October 14October 15October 16October 18October 19October 20-Medal bracket:-Classification brackets:5th–8th Place9th–12th Place...

. Volnov also won a gold medal at Mundobasket

FIBA World Championship

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 1967, a bronze medal at Mundobasket 1963 and six Eurobasket

Eurobasket

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 gold medals (1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969).

He played for Moscow Burevestnik from 1956 to 1958. He spent most of his career playing CSKA Moscow

PBC CSKA Moscow

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 (1958–1970) winning 10 Soviet championships (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970) and 3 Euroleague

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Championships (1961, 1963, 1969).