Lidiya Alekseyeva obit

Lidia Alexeeva Has Died

 

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Lidia Alexeeva took her place on the world stage during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. The Soviet national team marched straight to the gold medal game of the basketball tournament in grand fashion winning games by an average of more than 31 points per game. The repeat performance in the 1980 Moscow Olympics reinforced her reputation as one of the premier coaches in basketball. The unblemished record of Alexeeva in international competition included the first-ever gold medal in Olympic women’s basketball as well as ten first place finishes in the European Championships. Alexeeva, the coach of the Soviet national team for twenty years, ushered in the first dynasty in women’s basketball at the international level. Her teams won twenty gold medals in international competition including four first place finishes in the FIBA World Championships for Women. Alexeeva and her teams were light years ahead of the rest of the world in women’s basketball.

 

Date of Birth | 04.07.1924

Date of Death | 26.06.2014

Country | Russia

 

Clubs

Lokomotiv Moscow: 1943-1946

MAI Moscow: 1947-1957

Club Highlights

5 times Champion of the USSR Women's League: 1947, 1951, 1954, 1955 and 1956

Champion of the 1952 USSR Cup

Champion of the 1956 Spartakiade of the USSR peoples

National Team

22 years (1962-1984) head coach of a URSS Women's National Team that won every single international tournament (Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships) in which it took part (note: the USSR boycotted the 1979 World Championship for Women in South Korea)

2 times Olympic Gold medalist: (Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980)

5 times World Champion: (Lima 1964, Prague 1967, São Paulo 1971, Colombia 1975 and Brazil 1983)

12 times European Champion: (Mulhouse 1962, Budapest 1964, Romania 1966, Italy 1968, Netherlands 1970, Bulgaria 1972, Italy 1974, France 1976, Poland 1978, Yugoslavia 1980, Italy 1981 and Hungary 1983)

As a player: 4 times European Champion (Budapest 1950, Moscow 1952, Belgrade 1954 and Prague 1956)