Honored Coach of Russia Sergei Elevitch called the death of Olympic champion Alzhan Zharmukhamedov a great loss for basketball.
On Saturday it became known that Zharmukhamedov died at the age of 79 after a long illness. He played for CSKA for 11 seasons, with the team he won the European Cup and 10 times became champion of the USSR. With the USSR national team, the basketball player won gold at the 1972 Olympics, bronze at the 1976 Olympics, silver and bronze at the world championships, and also became a three-time European champion.
– I found out at six in the morning that Zhurmukhamedov had left. Of his son. Recently, Zharmukhamedov was seriously ill. But he was good, he held on. Now we are left with three Olympic champions of the time – Edeshko, Polivoda, Paulauskas. There is no one else from this legendary company. That’s a shame. A big loss for us, for basketball.
By the way, it worked for me. I took him on as head of the Stroitel team. He was a very positive and very modest person, – said Elevich “”.
Source : MatchTV
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