Viktor Zubkov

Who is Viktor Zubkov?

Victor Alekseyevich Zubkov is a retired Soviet basketball player considered one of the most distinguished players of Soviet and European basketball in the 1950s and 1960s, who won two silver medals at the Olympics for the Soviet national team.

A 2.04 m Center, at the club level Zubkov played for CSKA Moscow with whom he won 8 Soviet national league titles and two European Champions cups.

As a member for the national team for seven years he won two Olympic silver medals, one world championship Bronze medal in 1963 and three European championships. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.

He retired from basketball in 1966 and since then has worked as senior instructor and deputy chief of the military-engineering academy named after Valerian Kuybyshev and as the head coach of the Mozambique national team.