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{{short description|Russian basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
 | name              = Vitaly Fridzon
 | image             = Vitaly Fridzon 7 PBC CSKA Moscow 20171027 (cropped).jpg
 | image_size        = 
 | caption           = Fridzon, in 2017.
 | position          = [[Shooting guard]]
 | height_cm         = 195
 | weight_kg         = 81
 | league            = 
 | team              = Free agent
 | number            = 
 | nationality       = Russian
 | birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1985|10|14}}
 | birth_place       = [[Klintsy]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]],<br>[[Soviet Union]]
 | draft_year        = 2007
 | career_start      = 2001
 | career_end        = 
 | years1            = 2001–2004
 | team1             = [[BC Krasnye Krylia|Standart Toliatti]]
 | years2            = 2004–2013
 | team2             = [[BC Khimki|Khimki]]
 | years3            = 2013–2018
 | team3             = [[PBC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
 | years4            = 2018–2020
 | team4             = [[PBC Lokomotiv Kuban|Lokomotiv Kuban]]
 | years5            = 2020–2023
 | team5             = [[BC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit Saint Petersburg]]
 | years6            = 2023–2024
 | team6             = [[BC Avtodor|Avtodor]]
 | highlights        = 
* [[EuroLeague]] champion ([[2016 EuroLeague Final Four|2016]])
* [[FIBA EuroStar]] (2007)
* [[EuroCup Basketball|EuroCup]] champion ([[2011–12 Eurocup Basketball|2012]])
* 7× [[VTB United League|VTB League]] champion ([[2010–11 VTB United League|2011]], [[2013–14 VTB United League|2014]]–[[2016–17 VTB United League|2017]], [[2017–18 VTB United League|2018]], [[2021–22 VTB United League|2022]])
* [[VTB United League Final Four MVP]] (2011)
* [[Russian Professional Basketball League Awards|Russian League All-Symbolic Second Team]] (2012)
* [[Russian Basketball Cup|Russian Cup]] winner (2008)
* 2× [[VTB United League|All-VTB United League First Team]] ([[2009–10 VTB United League#All Tournament Team|2010]], [[2012–13 VTB United League#All-Tournament First Team|2013]])
* 2× [[VTB United League All-Star Game#Three-point contest winners|VTB United League All-Star Three-point contest champion]] (2019, 2020)
* 2× Russian League All-Star (2007, 2011)
* [[Russian Gold Basket awards|Best Russian Young Player]] (2005)
* [[Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"|Medal of the Order For Merit]] (2012)
* [[Honored Master of Sports of Russia]] (2012)
 | medal_templates   = 
{{MedalSport|Men's basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|{{bk|RUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2012 London]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[EuroBasket]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[EuroBasket 2011|2011 Lithuania]]}}
}}

'''Vitaly Valeryevich Fridzon''' ({{langx|ru|Виталий Валерьевич Фридзон}}, born October 14, 1985) is a Russian professional [[basketball]]. He also represents the senior [[Russia national basketball team|Russian national basketball team]]. Standing at {{convert|1.95|m|ftin|frac=4|abbr=on}}, he mainly plays at the [[shooting guard]] position, but he can also play at the [[point guard]] position.

==Professional career==
===Early years===
Fridzon started his professional career in the Russian team [[BC Krasnye Krylia|Standart Toliatti]], in 2001, and stayed with them until the end of the 2003–04 season.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

===Khimki Moscow Region===
[[File:Fridzon.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Fridzon playing with Khimki]]
Fridzon then moved to the prominent Moscow-based team [[BC Khimki|Khimki]]. With Khimki, he won the [[Russian Basketball Cup|Russian Cup]] in 2007, and the [[VTB United League]] championship in [[2010–11 VTB United League|2011]], while also being the [[VTB United League Final Four MVP]]. A year later, he won the [[EuroCup Basketball|EuroCup]] [[2011–12 Eurocup Basketball|2011–12 season]] championship, [[European professional club basketball system|the second-tier level European continental championship]], thus giving his team a spot in the upcoming [[EuroLeague]] [[2012–13 Euroleague|2012–13 season]], after a year of absence from that competition. In the 2012–13 season, he averaged a career-high 11.4 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, in 24 EuroLeague games. However, Khimki didn't win any trophies that season.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

===CSKA Moscow===
On June 13, 2013, Fridzon signed a two-year contract, with the option for a third season, with the Russian team [[PBC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vitaly Fridzon added to CSKA roster|url=http://www.cskabasket.com/news/?id=12629&lang=en|website=cskabasket.com|access-date=26 July 2014}}</ref> In his first season with CSKA, in the [[2012–13 Euroleague|EuroLeague 2012–13 season]], he averaged 7.5 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game, over 31 games.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In the 2014–15 season, CSKA Moscow managed to advance to the [[2015 Euroleague Final Four|EuroLeague Final Four]], for the fourth straight season, after eliminating [[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]] for the second straight season. in the [[2014–15 Euroleague Quarter-finals|quarterfinals]] series, with a 3–1 series win.<ref>{{cite news|title=CSKA Moscow routs Panathinaikos to claim Final Four berth|url=http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=246&seasoncode=E2014#!report|access-date=18 May 2015|work=euroleague.net|date=22 April 2015}}</ref> However, in the EuroLeague semifinal game, despite being dubbed by media as an absolute favorite to advance, CSKA once again lost to [[Olympiacos B.C.|Olympiacos]]. The final score was 70–68, after a great Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by [[Vassilis Spanoulis]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Spanoulis comes through again as Olympiacos stuns CSKA|url=http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=249&seasoncode=E2014#!report|access-date=18 May 2015|work=euroleague.net|date=15 May 2015}}</ref> CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating [[Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball|Fenerbahçe]], by a score of 86–80.<ref>{{cite news|title=CSKA Moscow beats Fenerbahce in third-place game|url=http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=250&seasoncode=E2014#!report|access-date=18 May 2015|work=eurolague.net|date=17 May 2015}}</ref> Fridzon had nearly the same season, statistically speaking, like his first season with the club, averaging 7.8 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game, over 23 games played in the EuroLeague. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the [[2014–15 VTB United League|VTB United League season]], after eliminating [[BC Khimki|Khimki]], with a 3–0 sweep in the league's finals series.<ref>{{cite news|title=CSKA wins championship! |url=http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/cska-wins-championship.htm |access-date=10 June 2015 |work=vtb-league.com |date=8 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610135415/http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/cska-wins-championship.htm |archive-date=10 June 2015 }}</ref>

On June 16, 2016, he re-signed with the team, on a new two-year contract, with the option of another season.<ref>{{cite news|title=Vitaly Fridzon to continue with CSKA|url=http://www.cskabasket.com/news/?id=15220&lang=en|access-date=17 June 2016|work=cskabasket.com|date=16 June 2016}}</ref>

On July 25, 2018, Fridzon and CSKA officially part ways after five seasons.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

===Lokomotiv Kuban===
On July 25, 2018, Fridzon signed a two-year contract with the Russian club [[PBC Lokomotiv Kuban|Lokomotiv Kuban]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lokobasket.com/en/news/30543/|title=Vitaly Fridzon joins Lokomotiv Kuban|access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref>

===Zenit Saint Petersburg===
On July 18, 2020, Fridzon moved to [[BC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit Saint Petersburg]] on a one-year contract, marking his return to the [[EuroLeague]]. On June 3, 2021, Zenit announced that Fridzon's contract would not be renewed, making him a free agent once more.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

On March 5, 2022, he has signed and joined back the team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.bc-zenit.com/archives/news/5399|title=Team changes|last=|first=|date=March 5, 2022|website=en.bc-zenit.com|publisher=|language=En|access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>

==National team career==
[[File:Russia national basketball team.jpg|thumb|right|Fridzon with the Russian national team at the [[EuroBasket 2011]].]]
Fridzon is also a member of the senior [[Russia national basketball team|Russian national basketball team]]. He won a bronze medal at the [[EuroBasket 2011]], and a bronze medal at the [[Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2012 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Vitaly Fridzon Bio, Stats, and Results|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/vitaly-fridzon-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417214925/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/vitaly-fridzon-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 2020-04-17|website = Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date = 2016-01-03}}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{{Euroleague player statistics legend}}

===EuroLeague===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| style="background:#AFE6BA; width:3em;"|†
|Denotes season in which Fridzon won the [[EuroLeague champion|EuroLeague]]
|-
| style="background:#CFECEC; width:1em"|*
| Led the league
|}

{{Euroleague player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2009–10 Euroleague|2009–10]]
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3"| [[BC Khimki|Khimki]]
| 16 || 2 || 19.0 || .375 || .327 || style="background:#CFECEC;"|'''.964'''* || 2.4 || 2.0 || .4 || .1 || 6.5 || 5.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2010–11 Euroleague|2010–11]]
| 9 || 7 || 22.5 || .328 || .313 || .759 || '''4.1''' || 1.4 || .7 || .1 || 8.2 || 7.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2012–13 Euroleague|2012–13]]
| 24 || 5 || '''24.0''' || .450 || .432 || .813 || 2.5 || '''2.2''' || '''1.0''' || .1 || '''11.4''' || '''9.1'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2013–14 Euroleague|2013–14]]
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="5"| [[PBC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
| style="background:#CFECEC;"|31* || 7 || 17.8 || '''.520''' || '''.500''' || .853 || 1.5 || 1.1 || .5 || .1 || 7.5 || 6.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2014–15 EuroLeague|2014–15]]
| 23 || '''18''' || 18.3 || .417 || .423 || .872 || 2.3 || 1.4 || .7 || .1 || 7.8 || 6.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;"| [[2015–16 EuroLeague|2015–16]]†
| 27 || 14 || 13.9 || .475 || .429 || .833 || 1.7 || .9 || .6 || .0 || 6.4 || 5.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2016–17 EuroLeague|2016–17]]
| '''35''' || 6 || 12.9 || .511 || .417 || .860 || 1.2 || .8 || .6 || '''.3''' || 5.9 || 5.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2017–18 EuroLeague|2017–18]]
| 30 || 0 || 7.6 || .372 || .382 || .882 || .7 || .4 || .3 || .1 || 2.9 || 0.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[2020–21 EuroLeague|2020–21]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[BC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit]]
| 30 || 3 || 5.4 || .419 || .313 || .833 || .6 || .3 || .2 || {{sort|-|—}} || 1.2 || 0.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career
| 225 || 62 || 14.6 || .446 || .416 || .850 || 1.6 || 1.0 || .5 || .1 || 6.1 || 4.9
{{S-end}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Vitaly Fridzon}}
*[http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Vitaly-Fridzon-38982/ Vitaly Fridzon] at draftexpress.com
*[http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=rus&PlayerID=61425 Vitaly Fridzon] at eurobasket.com
*[http://www.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=LLH#!careerstats Vitaly Fridzon] at euroleague.net
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180322142842/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Vitaly%20FRIDZON/pid/48470/_//players.html Vitaly Fridzon] at fiba.com
*[http://www.vtb-league.com/en/player/vitaliy-fridzon.htm Vitaly Fridzon] at vtb-league.com
*{{instagram|frizi7}}

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