Women's Basketball Club Sparta&K is a women's basketball team based in Vidnoye, Russia that plays in

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’s EuroLeague Women.

History

It won the 2005–06

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and the 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 EuroLeague Women championship and two SuperCup Women. It is currently the only team that has won 4 consecutive EuroLeague Women titles since 1991 when European Cup For Women's Champions Clubs was rebranded as the Euroleague Women. This is due in part to the team's supplementing of its otherwise Russian roster with seasoned WNBA American and other stars Lauren Jackson, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota, and others. In 2010, the club was renamed to Sparta&K after the sports society Spartak were against the usage of the brand "Spartak" in December 2009. The last letter is devoted to murdered basketball sponsor

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Winners

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2009, 2010 EuroLeague Women: (4) * 15px 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

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2006

Russian Women's Basketball Premier League The Russian Women's Basketball Premier League is the premier women's basketball competition in Russia. The category consists of 11 teams playing a total of 20 rounds. At the end of the regular season the top eight teams play the play-offs througho ...

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Current roster

Former players

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Ilona Korstin Ilona Kalyuvna Korstin (russian: Илона Кальювна Корстин; born May 30, 1980) is a retired Russian basketball forward of Estonian origin, who competed for her native Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics an ...

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* Seimone Augustus * Sue Bird * Tamika Catchings * Candice Dupree * Sylvia Fowles * Janel McCarville * Diana Taurasi * Tina Thompson *

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* Lauren Jackson *

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* Sonja Petrović *

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* Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota * Jelena Milovanović *

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* Tijana Ajduković

References

External links

Official site
Women's basketball teams in Russia Sport in Moscow Oblast Spartak Moscow EuroCup Women-winning clubs EuroLeague Women clubs Basketball teams established in 1949 {{Europe-basketball-team-stub