Nikolai Lvovich Baglei (Russian: Николай Львович Баглей; Ukrainian: Микола Львович Баглей; 25 February 1937 – 3 March 1991) was a Ukrainian basketball player. Playing for the Soviet team he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics,[1] as well as gold medals at EuroBasket 1965 and Summer Universiades of 1959 and 1961. Since his death in 1991, an annual international basketball tournament is carried out in Kyiv in his honor.[2]
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Born | 25 February 1937 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 March 1991 (aged 54) | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Basketball | |||||||||||||||||
Club | BC Budivelnyk, Kyiv | |||||||||||||||||
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References
edit- ^ Mykola Bahlei. sports-reference.com
- ^ Николай Баглей Archived 2014-04-21 at the Wayback Machine. diduguns.com