Medal record | ||
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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).