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Uljana Semjonova

Uljana Semjonova (born March 9, 1952 in Daugavpils, Latvia) is a Latvian basketball player.

7-foot tall Semjonova was the leading women basketball player in the world in 1970s and 1980s. For almost all of her playing career, she played for TTT Riga . With TTT, she won the championships of the Soviet Union 15 times and the European Champion's Cup also 15 times. Semjonova was also very dominant in international play, winning two Olympic Gold medals with the team of Soviet Union in 1976 and 1980 and never losing a game in an official international competition.

In 1993, Semjonova became the first non-US women player enshrined into Basketball Hall of Fame.

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