Iuliana Semenova
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| Gold | 1976 Montreal | Team | |
| Gold | 1980 Moscow | Team | |
Uļjana Semjonova (Russian:Ульяна Ларионовна Семенова, Iuliana Larionovna Semenova) (born March 9, 1952 in village Medumi, Daugavpils District, Latvian SSR) is a retired Soviet Latvian basketball player.
7-foot tall Semenova (although she has been reported as being any height between 6-foot 10 inches tall and 7-foot 2 inches tall) was the leading women's basketball player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. For almost all of her playing career, she played for TTT Riga, which was part of Daugava Voluntary Sports Society. With TTT, she won 15 championships in the Soviet Union and the European Champion's Cup 15 times. Semenova was also very dominant in international play, winning two Olympic Gold medals while playing for the USSR in 1976 and 1980 and never lost a game in official international competition.
She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1976 [1], and in 1993 became the first non-US woman enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2007, she was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame.
[edit] References
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 578.
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