Mikheil Korkia
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Born | September 10, 1948 Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | February 7, 2004 Tbilisi, Georgia | (aged 55)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 92 lb (42 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 1965–1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Shooting Guard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 1981–1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1965-1979 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1980-1981 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982-1983 | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mikheil Korkia (Georgian: მიხეილ ქორქია) (10 September 1948 – 7 February 2004) was a Soviet basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He played for Dynamo Tbilisi.
Trophies[]
- USSR Premier Basketball League (1): 1968
- USSR Basketball Cup (1): 1969
External links[]
- FIBA Profile
- Georgia National Olympic Committee Profile
- Mikheil Korkia in quotes - Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia (in Georgian)
Categories:
- Men's basketball players from Georgia (country)
- 1948 births
- 2004 deaths
- Olympic basketball players of the Soviet Union
- Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Soviet men's basketball players
- BC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- Sportspeople from Kutaisi
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Shooting guards
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- European basketball biography stubs
- Georgia (country) sportspeople stubs