Derek William Sankey (born December 17, 1948) is a former member of the Canadian national men's basketball team. He was a member of the Canadian team which finished fourth at the

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. A native of

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, Sankey played high school basketball at Lord Byng High School and

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at the

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. He was a member of two Thunderbirds teams that won the CIAU national championship, one in 1967 and the other in 1970. He was named a CIAU First Team All-Canadian in 1970. Sankey played for Canada at the

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, the 1970

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, the qualifying tournament for the

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, the 1975

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, and the 1976 Summer Olympics. Sankey was inducted into the Naismith Museum and Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Basketball BC Hall of Fame in 2007.

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