Career
Standing at 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) or taller Semjonova was the leading women"s basketball player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Wearing a men"s size 21 (United States) / 58 (European Union) shoe, she was known for having the largest feet ever in women"s basketball. Foreign almost all of her playing career, she played for TTT Riga, which was part of Daugava Voluntary Sports Society.
Semjonova was also very dominant in international play, winning two Olympic Gold medals while playing for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1976 and 1980 and never lost a game in official international competition.
She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1976, and in 1993 became the first non-United States woman enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2007, she was enshrined in the International Basketball Federation Hall of Fame.