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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 168,079 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander Belov is the 118th most popular basketball player (down from 98th in 2019), the 1,713th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,295th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Basketball Player.

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  • 46.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Alexander Belov ranks 118 out of 1,268Before him are Kevin McHale, Chris Andersen, Russell Westbrook, Dave Bing, James Worthy, and Dolph Schayes. After him are Vlade Divac, Carmelo Anthony, Dave Cowens, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, and Jason Kidd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Alexander Belov ranks 329Before him are Rush Limbaugh, Bernard Challandes, Kim Manners, Debra Jo Rupp, Nils Lofgren, and Celia Weston. After him are Marco Antônio, Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, Ray Kennedy, Zoltán Ribli, Janis Ian, and Ali Farzat. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Belov ranks 176Before him are Germain Derycke, Will Geer, Victor Hasselblad, Philip Ahn, Sandy Denny, and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. After him are Sverre Farstad, Ivan Kavaleridze, Ljubiša Stevanović, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Edgar Bergen, and Jorge Icaza Coronel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 1,713 out of 3,262Before him are Vitalik Buterin (1994), Vassily Maximov (1844), Aristarkh Lentulov (1882), Yuri Bashmet (1953), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), and Aleksandra Chudina (1923). After him are Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Fyodor Khitruk (1917), Boris Chicherin (1828), Natalia Bessmertnova (1941), Alexander Vampilov (1937), and Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among basketball players born in Russia, Alexander Belov ranks 4Before him are Sergei Belov (1944), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), and Vladimir Tkachenko (1957). After him are Gennadi Volnov (1939), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Alexey Shved (1988), Sergei Bazarevich (1965), Timofey Mozgov (1986), Lazaros Papadopoulos (1980), and Yekaterina Lisina (1987).