Valery Vladimirovich Miloserdov (russian: Валерий Владимирович Милосердов; August 11, 1951 – January 26, 2015) was a Russian

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player who competed for the Soviet Union in the

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and the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

and won bronze medals.

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1951 births Soviet men's basketball players 1974 FIBA World Championship players Russian men's basketball players Olympic basketball players of 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 2015 deaths Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics FIBA World Championship-winning players PBC CSKA Moscow players People from Elektrostal Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast {{Basketball-bio-stub