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Ukrainian basketball player (1947–2024)

Anatoliy Polyvoda

Polivoda in 1972
Personal information
Born (1947-05-29)29 May 1947Yenakiieve, Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR[1]
Died 22 January 2024(2024-01-22) (aged 76)
Nationality Soviet and Ukrainian
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 231 lb (105 kg)
Position Power forward
Medals Representing Soviet Union Men's Basketball Olympic Games Bronze medal – third place 1968 Mexico City USSR Gold medal – first place 1972 Munich USSR FIBA World Cup Gold medal – first place 1967 Montevideo EuroBasket Gold medal – first place 1967 Finland Gold medal – first place 1969 Italy Gold medal – first place 1971 West Germany European Championship for Juniors Gold medal – first place 1966 Italy Team

Anatoliy Ivanovych Polyvoda (Ukrainian: Анатолій Іванович Поливода; 29 May 1947 – 22 January 2024) was a Ukrainian basketball player who played for the Budivelnyk of Kyiv and the Soviet Union. He trained at VSS Avanhard in Kyiv.

Polyvoda played in the Soviet team at the 1968 Olympic Games in which he won a bronze medal, and at the 1972 Olympic Games where he won a gold medal.[2]

Polyvoda died on 22 January 2024, at the age of 76.[3] Of the Munich Olympic champion team, only Modestas Paulauskas and Ivan Edeshko are still living.[4]

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  2. ^ "Anatoliy Polyvoda Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Умер олимпийский чемпион по баскетболу Поливода". Tribuna. 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Скончался олимпийский чемпион по баскетболу 1972 года Анатолий Поливода". Sport Express. 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Самый титулованный баскетболист Украины". Archived from the original on 11 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2017.