Gennadi Volnov

Gennadi Volnov

Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
Basketball
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	Men's team
	1960 Rome	Men's team
	1964 Tokyo	Men's team
	1968 Mexico City	Men's team
World Championships
	1967 Uruguay	Men's team
	1963 Brazil	Men's team
European Championships
	1959 Turkey	Men's team
	1961 Yugoslavia	Men's team
	1963 Poland	Men's team
	1965 Soviet Union	Men's team
	1967 Finland	Men's team
	1969 Italy	Men's team

Gennadi Georgievich Volnov (Russian: Геннадий Георгиевич Вольнов) (November 28, 1939 – July 15, 2008) was a Russian basketball player who played for the Soviet Union national basketball team from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. He was born in Moscow.

Volnov won the gold medal playing for the Soviet basketball team in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He won two silver medals at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Volnov also won a gold medal at Mundobasket 1967, a bronze medal at Mundobasket 1963 and six Eurobasket gold medals (1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969).

He played for Moscow Burevestnik from 1956 to 1958. He spent most of his career playing CSKA Moscow (1958–1970) winning 10 Soviet championships (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970) and 3 Euroleague Championships (1961, 1963, 1969).

References

• basketpedya.com