Aleksandr Petrovych Salnikov (; 3 July 1949 – 17 November 2017) was a Ukrainian

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

player who competed for the Soviet Union in the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

and the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

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* 1949 births 2017 deaths Soviet men's basketball players 1974 FIBA World Championship players 1978 FIBA World Championship players Olympic basketball players for the Soviet Union Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in basketball Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Ukrainian men's basketball players FIBA World Championship–winning players Sportspeople from Sevastopol 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Basketball-bio-stub