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Born | Yenakiieve, Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR[1] | 29 May 1947
Died | 22 January 2024 | (aged 76)
Nationality | Soviet and Ukrainian |
Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Listed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) |
Position | Power forward |
Anatoliy Ivanovych Polyvoda (Ukrainian: Анатолій Іванович Поливода; 29 May 1947 – 22 January 2024) was a Ukrainian basketball player who played for the Budivelnyk of Kyiv and the Soviet Union. He trained at VSS Avanhard in Kyiv.
Polyvoda played in the Soviet team at the 1968 Olympic Games in which he won a bronze medal, and at the 1972 Olympic Games where he won a gold medal.[2]
Polyvoda died on 22 January 2024, at the age of 76.[3] Of the Munich Olympic champion team, only Modestas Paulauskas and Ivan Edeshko are still living.[4]