Guram Minashvili

Guram Minashvili was a Georgian basketball player from Tbilisi who represented the Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where the Soviet team took the silver medal. He was born on 25 November 1936 and died on 1 March 2015. His career ran from 1953 to 1971 and was spent mostly with Dynamo Tbilisi, with a final spell at Sinatle Tbilisi from 1968. Olympedia records that he was on the Soviet national team from 1957 to 1964, winning a bronze at the 1963 World Championships and European titles in 1957, 1959 and 1963, and that with Dynamo he won the FIBA European Champions Cup in 1962 and a Soviet title in 1953. After his playing days he worked in the physical education department of the Georgian Technical University.