Yuri Ozerov (basketball)

Yuri Ozerov
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Men's basketball
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki Team
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1953 USSR Team
Gold medal – first place 1957 Bulgaria Team
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Hungary Team

Yuri Viktorovich Ozerov (Russian: Юрий Викторович Озеров; July 5, 1928 – February 25, 2004)[1] was a Russian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.[2]

He was a member of the Soviet team which won the silver medal. He played all eight matches. Four years later he won his second silver medal as part of the Soviet team.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Yuri Ozerov at Olympedia (archive)
  2. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 307.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yuri Ozerov Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2018.