Derek William Sankey (born December 17, 1948) is a former member of the
Canadian national men's basketball team
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. He was a member of the Canadian team which finished fourth at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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A native of
Vancouver, British Columbia
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, Sankey played high school basketball at
Lord Byng High School and
college basketball
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at the
University of British Columbia
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. He was a member of two Thunderbirds teams that won the
CIAU national championship, one in 1967 and the other in 1970. He was named a CIAU First Team All-Canadian in 1970.
Sankey played for Canada at the
1970 FIBA World Championship
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, the 1970
World Student Games
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, the qualifying tournament for the
1972 Summer Olympics
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, the 1975
Pan Am Games
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, and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Sankey was inducted into the
Naismith Museum and Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Basketball BC Hall of Fame in 2007.
References
Basketball BC Hall of Fame inductee page
1948 births
Living people
Basketball people from British Columbia
Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1975 Pan American Games
Canadian men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Canada
Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Basketball players from Vancouver
UBC Thunderbirds basketball players
1970 FIBA World Championship players
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