Zurab Sakandelidze

Zurab Aleksandrovich Sakandelidze (9 August 1945 to 25 January 2004) was a Georgian basketball player who represented the Soviet Union and won the gold medal with the Soviet basketball team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was born in the Imeretian city of Kutaisi and played his club basketball for Dinamo Tbilisi. The 1972 Olympic gold with the Soviet team is the achievement the sources single out, and it is the basis on which the Olympic record lists him as a Georgian competitor representing the Soviet Union. He died in Tbilisi in January 2004 at the age of fifty eight, having been born in Kutaisi nearly six decades earlier.