Gerti Shima

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Gerti Shima
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Shima with the Albanian national basketball team
Personal information
Born (1986-05-06) May 6, 1986 (age 37)
Tirana, Albania
NationalityAlbanian
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
Playing career2001–2021
Position Power forward
Career history
2001–2002 Tirana
2004–2006 Valbona
2006–2008 Sigal Prishtina
2008–2011 Tirana
2011–2012 Čapljina Lasta
2012–2015 Peja
2015-2016 Bashkimi
2016 Sigal Prishtina
2017–2021 Tirana

Gerti Shima (born 9 May 1986 in Tirana) is an Albanian former professional basketball player who last played for Albanian side KB Tirana in the Albanian Basketball Superliga. Shima transferred for the second time to Sigal Prishtina in January 2016. He made a big comeback to his hometown club, where he has been playing professionally since he was 15 years old, KB Tirana on 3 November 2016.He retired from basketball in September 2021,after he was elected in position of Secretary General in Albania National Olympic Committee. In 2006 he scored 91 points in a game with Valbona against Partizani, a league record that stood for ten years until Genti Lasku scored 100. [1]

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Career

Shima returned to Kosovo in September 2012 after securing a transfer to KB Peja, signing a one-year contract. [2]

On 10 August 2015, Shima signed one-year contract for KB Bashkimi., [3] but on 8 January 2016 he left KB Bashkimi.

On 11 January 2016, he signed one-year contract for Sigal Prishtina. [4] On 3 November 2016, he made a come back to KB Tirana.[ citation needed ] Shima played from 2001 in the national team and he is also the Capitan of Albania national team.[ citation needed ]

From September 2021 he is in position of Secretary General at Albania Olympic Committee

Achievements

2004-05, 2005-06, 2002-03 2007-08 ,2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 2016-2017 ,2017-18

2012-2013, 2015-2016

2001-2002 ,2004-05, 2005–06, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 2016-17

2015-2016

2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017

2015-2016

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References

  1. ↑ Vyshka, Gjergj (17 April 2016). "Genti Lasku thyen rekordin 10-vjeçar të Shimës, shënon 100 pikë" (in Albanian). albaniansport.net. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Gerti Shima kalon te Peja
  3. ↑ Geri Shima firmos per Bashkimin e Prizrenit
  4. ↑ Zyrtarizohet Shima te Prishtina

https://cijm.org.gr/gerti-shima-appointed-general-secretary-of-the-albanian-olympic-committee/

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1113231/shima-new-koksh-secretary-general



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