About Mikhail Studenetsky
Mikhail Studenetsky, 86, Russian basketball player, Olympic silver medallist (1956), COVID-19.
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|Mikhail Vladimirovich Studenetsky (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Студенецкий; 6 March 1934 – 1 March 2021) was a Soviet basketball player.
Biography
Studenetsky was a point guard of the Soviet team between 1954 and 1959 and won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, as well as the European titles in 1957 and 1959. After retirement he worked as an engineer.
He died on 1 March 2021, aged 86, five days short from his 87th birthday, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.
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