BASKETBALL PLAYER

Alexander Belov

1951 - 1978

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Alexander Alexandrovich Belov, commonly known as Sasha Belov (November 9, 1951 – October 3, 1978), was a Soviet basketball player. During his playing career, he played at the center position. Belov is most remembered for scoring the game-winning basket of the gold medal game of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games, which gave the gold medal to the senior Soviet national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Belov has received more than 183,460 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander Belov is the 110th most popular basketball player (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,729th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,709th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Belov ranks 110 out of 1,757. Before him are Dragan Šakota, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Spencer Haywood, Vinko Jelovac, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, and Mike Krzyzewski. After him are Isaiah Thomas, Bill Sharman, Walt Frazier, Kevin Garnett, Dolph Schayes, and George Gervin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Alexander Belov ranks 321. Before him are Irina Alfyorova, Philippe Van Parijs, Tatyana Tolstaya, Ulf Andersson, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, and Gianpiero Marini. After him are Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Lyudmila Narusova, Tom Wopat, Michel Aupetit, Charlie Dominici, and Dariush. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Belov ranks 174. Before him are O. E. Hasse, Josette Day, Gotthard Handrick, Ali Soilih, Giuseppe Impastato, and Victor Hasselblad. After him are Jānis Daliņš, Philip K. Hitti, Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Sandy Denny, Edward Lindberg, and John Lyng.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 1,729 out of 3,761. Before him are Bulan (null), Ivan Babushkin (1873), Oleg Anofriyev (1930), Vsevolod of Pskov (null), Alexey Miller (1962), and Augusts Voss (1919). After him are Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Alexander Fersman (1883), Nikolai Tikhonov (1896), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), and Viktor Zhdanovich (1938).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 4. Before him are Sergei Belov (1944), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), and Vladimir Tkachenko (1957). After him are Gennadi Volnov (1939), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Alexey Shved (1988), Timofey Mozgov (1986), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), and Maria Stepanova (1979).

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