Mikheil Korkia
Soviet basketball player
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Born | 10 September 1948 Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 February 2004(2004-02-07) (aged 55) Tbilisi, Georgia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 202 lb (92 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 1965–1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 1981–1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1965-1979 | Dinamo Tbilisi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1980-1981 | Dinamo Tbilisi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982-1983 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mikheil Korkia (Georgian: მიხეილ ქორქია) (10 September 1948 – 7 February 2004) was a Georgian-Soviet basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He played for Dynamo Tbilisi.
Trophies
- USSR Premier Basketball League (1): 1968
- USSR Basketball Cup (1): 1969
External links
- FIBA Profile
- Georgia National Olympic Committee Profile
- Mikheil Korkia in quotes - Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia (in Georgian)
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Soviet Union squad – EuroBasket 1971 – Gold medal
- 4 Tammiste
- 5 Paulauskas
- 6 Sakandelidze
- 7 Zharmukhamedov
- 8 Boloshev
- 9 Edeshko
- 10 S. Belov
- 11 Polivoda
- 12 Tomson
- 13 Korkia
- 14 A. Belov
- 15 Andreev
- Coach: Kondrashin
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