10 December 1932 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
19 August 2011 (aged 78)
Sport
Sport
Basketball
Club
Dynamo Moscow
Medal record
Representing the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne
Team
FIBA EuroBasket
1955 Budapest
Team
1957 Sofia
Team
1959 Istanbul
Team
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Torban (Russian: Владимир Александрович Торбан; 10 December 1932 – 19 August 2011) was a Soviet basketball player. He trained as a tennis player in the 1940s and only in the 1950s started playing basketball for Dynamo Moscow. Between 1955 and 1959 he was a member of the Soviet team. In 1955, he won a gold medal at the Summer Universiade and a bronze medal at the EuroBasket 1955. Next year, he won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He became European champion in 1957 and 1959;[1] in 1959, he also won a national title and competed at the world championship, where he held the highest live scoring rate (57%).[2] However, his team was disqualified for refusing to play against Taiwan.[3][4]
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