Spain won its fourth gold at the European Basketball Championships, continuing its streak of winning medals since 2007.
Since 1999, Spain has never skipped the semi-finals of the EuroBasket, and only in 2005 in Belgrade was it left without a medal, as France was better in the battle for bronze by as many as 30 points.
With the fourth gold medal, Spain came very close to Serbia, which has eight gold medals (the last one was won back in 2001), while hardly any national team in the next 50 years or so will manage to “remove” Russia from the top of the table, which has 15 gold medals (like the USSR, it won as many as 14 gold medals).
The fact that the “Red Fury” was in 13th place in the same table in 2007 shows how great the success of Spain is, without a gold medal, but with as many as six silver medals.
It is interesting that the only Spaniard who won all four gold medals was Rudi Fernandez, the captain of the national team at this year’s championship.
