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The parquet giant was two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion with the Soviet team. She died on January 8, at 73 years of age.
Uliana Semenova, one of the great legends of world basketball and who had a step through Spain in the ranks of the Tintoretto getafense, passed away this Thursday at 74 years old, according to the Latvian Basketball Union on its website. Semenova, who was one of the most dominant pivots of this sport thanks to its 2.10 meters, was twice Olympic champion, three times World Champion and ten in Europe, in addition to winning eleven continental titl…
The player of 2.10 m (according to the Latvian Federation), including in the Hall of Fame in 1993 and then in the Hall of Fame of FIBA in 2007, had a rich palmeries, with two Olympic titles won by the USSR team in 1976 and 198. He also won three World Championships and 10 European Championships in the national team. Photo: Wikipedia “Letonia suffered another great loss: the failure of the Olympics, World and European values. A very warm and unde…
World basketball mourns the loss of Uliana Semenova, the gigantic Latvian player who dominated the basket like no other and who left an indelible memory for her unstoppable dominance on the track and for her humanity outside it. Semenova passed away this Thursday at 73 years old and the whole world of basketball has dressed in mourning to fire a legend of the hoops. “The most decisive player in the history of world basketball,” the Spanish Feder…
Latvian player Uliana Semenova dies, who revolutionized female basketball with its 2.13 meters in the 1970s and 80s.
The center of the Soviet women's basketball team won two Olympics and lived to be 73 years old.
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