Valery Grigoryevich Goborov (Ukrainian: Валерій Григорович Гоборов, Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Гоборов; 20 January 1966 – 7 September 1989) was a Soviet basketball player.
Goborov was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR in 1966.
He won gold medal at 1988 Summer Olympics and was a champion of the USSR League (1988). He won a silver medal at Eurobasket 1987, in Athens, against Greece. [1]
On 7 September 1989, he died in Moscow in a car crash.