Dragan Kićanović

Medal record
Competitor for  Yugoslavia
Men's Basketball
Olympic Games
Silver	1976 Montreal	Team
Gold	1980 Moscow	Team
World Championship
Silver	1974 Puerto Rico	Team
Gold	1978 Philippines	Team
Bronze	1982 Colombia	Team
European Championships
Gold	1973 Spain	Team
Gold	1975 Yugoslavia	Team
Gold	1977 Belgium	Team
Bronze	1979 Italy	Team
Silver	1981 Czechoslovakia	Team
Mediterranean Games
Gold	1971 Tuns	Team
Gold	1975 Algiers	Team

Dragan Kićanović (Serbian: Драган Кићановић; born August 17, 1954 in Čačak, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. A 1.91m (6 ft 3 in) tall shooting guard, he played in the 70's and 80's and is considered as one of the best European players and scorers of all time, having won both the Mr. Europa and the Euroscar European Player of the Year awards in 1981 and 1982. On August 20, 2010, Kićanović was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in recognition of his play in international competition.^[1] He was named as The best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1982.

Pro career

During the 70's he played alongside Dražen Dalipagić, thus creating a spectacular duo as members of Partizan Belgrade. In international club competition, Kićanović won 2 consecutive Korać Cup championships with Partizan in 1978 and 1979, scoring 33 (behind Dalipagić's 50) and 41 points respectively in the finals. Furthermore, he won a Saporta Cup with Scavolini Pesaro in 1983, in which he again dominated the final with 31 points and 8 assists.^[2] With Partizan Belgrade Kićanović also won 3 Yugoslavian championships (1976, 1979 and 1981) and a Yugoslavian cup (1979).

Yugoslavian national team

Kićanović played with the Yugoslavian national basketball team from 1973 to 1983 and he competed at all the major international competitions with them: the European Championship, the FIBA World Championship and the Olympics Basketball Tournament. He won the European Championship three times, winning the 1973 European Championship, 1975 European Championship and 1977 European Championship.

At the Olympics, Kićanović won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Basketball Tournament and the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Basketball Tournament.^[3] At the FIBA World Championships, he won the silver medal at the 1974 FIBA World Championship, being selected as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament, the gold medal at the 1978 FIBA World Championship, and the bronze at the 1982 FIBA World Championship. He was the top scorer in total points scored of the 1982 World Championship, scoring 190 points. He is one of the leading scorers of all-time in the history of FIBA World Championships, having scored a total of 484 points.

References

1. ^ "FIBA announces 2010 Hall of Fame Class". FIBA. 2010-08-20. http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/news/p/newsid/42798/arti.html. 
2. ^ "Player Nominees". Euroleague Basketball. http://www.euroleague.net/history/50-years/player-nominees. Retrieved 2011-09-10. 
3. ^ "Dragan Kićanović". Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/dragan-kicanovic-1.html. Retrieved 2010-09-18. 

External links

• FIBA.com Hall of Fame Candidates
• Fibaeurope.com profile
• Database Olympics Player Profile
• Sports-reference.com Player Profile
• Mr. Europa Winners
• Euroscar Winners

Awards
Preceded by Borut Petrić	The Best Athlete of Yugoslavia 1982	Succeeded by Dragutin Šurbek
Preceded by Dino Meneghin	Mr. Europa 1981, 1982	Succeeded by Dino Meneghin

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Name	Kicanovic, Dragan
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Date of birth	August 17, 1954
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