Ivan Edeshko

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Men’s Basketball
Olympic Games
Gold 1972 Munich Team Competition
Bronze 1976 Montreal Team Competition
European Championships
Gold 1979 Italy Team Competition

Ivan Ivanovich Edeshko (Russian: Иван Иванович Едешко) (born March 25, 1945 in village Stetski, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR) is a retired Belarusian professional basketball player who won gold with the Soviet national team in the 1972 Olympics. His inbound pass led to Aleksandr Belov's game-winning basket with no time left in the gold medal game in those Olympics against the American national team, setting the final score to 51-50. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Moscow, and played for CSKA Moscow (1971-1980).

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