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The Russia national handball team (Russian: Сборная России по гандболу) is controlled by the Handball Federation of Russia. Russia is designated by IHF and EHF.

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AssociationHandball Federation of Russia
(Союз гандболистов России)
CoachVelimir Petković
Assistant coachValentin Buzmakov
Mikhail Izmailov
CaptainDaniil Shishkaryov
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Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances4 (First in 1996)
Best resultGold 1st (2000)
World Championship
Appearances21 (First in 1993)
Best resultGold 1st (1993, 1997)
European Championship
Appearances14 (First in 1994)
Best resultGold 1st (1996)
Last updated on Unknown.
Russia men's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1993 Sweden
Gold medal – first place 1997 Japan
Silver medal – second place 1999 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1996 Spain
Silver medal – second place 1994 Portugal
Silver medal – second place 2000 Croatia

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Handball Federation banned Russian and Belarus athletes and officials, and the European Handball Federation suspended the national teams of Russia and Belarus as well as Russian and Belarusian clubs competing in European handball competitions.[1] Referees, officials, and commission members from Russia and Belarus will not be called upon for future activities.[2] And new organisers will be sought for the YAC 16 EHF Beach Handball EURO and the Qualifier Tournaments for the Beach Handball EURO 2023, which were to be held in Moscow.[3]

HistoryEdit

Handball in Russia as one of the sports games appeared approx. in 1909. In the first period of its development the handball in Russia had two forms, 11 players form and 7 players form. In 1955 was set up the All-Union section (federation) of handball. By early 60s was finally approved a single form of handball game – 7 players form.[citation needed]

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Handball Federation banned Russian and Belarus athletes and officials, and the European Handball Federation suspended the national teams of Russia and Belarus as well as Russian and Belarusian clubs competing in European handball competitions.[4] Referees, officials, and commission members from Russia and Belarus will not be called upon for future activities.[5] And new organisers will be sought for the YAC 16 EHF Beach Handball EURO and the Qualifier Tournaments for the Beach Handball EURO 2023, which were to be held in Moscow.[6] In addition, it refused to allow competitions to be held in Russia.[7] The Russian Handball Federation failed in its appeal against the decision to exclude Russia's teams from continental competition, which was rejected by the European Handball Federation Court of Handball.[8]

HonoursEdit

Competition       Total
Olympic Games 1 0 1 2
World Championship 2 1 0 3
European Championship 1 2 0 3
Total 4 3 1 8

ResultsEdit

Summer OlympicsEdit

Year Round Position Pld W D L GS GA
1972 – 1988 As   Soviet Union
  1992 As   Unified Team
  1996 Preliminary round 5th 6 4 0 2 165 132
  2000 Champions 1st 8 7 0 1 219 195
  2004 Third place 3rd 8 4 0 4 214 216
  2008 Preliminary round 6th 8 3 1 4 216 214
  2012 did not qualify
  2016
  2020
Total 4/7 1 Title 30 18 1 11 814 757

World ChampionshipEdit

1993   Champions
1995   5th place
1997   Champions
1999   Runners-up
2001   6th place
2003   5th place
2005   8th place
2007   6th place
2009   16th place
2011   did not qualify
2013   7th place
2015   19th place
2017   12th place
2019  
  		14th place
2021   14th place (played as RHF Team)
2023  
  		Disqualified during qualification[a]
2025  
 
  		TBD
2027  
  1. ^ The EHF excluded Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine as part of the Russo-Ukrainian War.[9]

European ChampionshipEdit

Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
  1994 Runners-up 2 7 6 0 1 172 148
  1996 Champions 1 7 6 1 0 172 141
  1998 Fourth place 4 7 3 1 3 179 167
  2000 Runners-up 2 7 5 0 2 189 175
  2002 5th/6th place 5 7 5 1 1 166 144
  2004 5th/6th place 5 7 4 1 2 206 190
  2006 5th/6th place 6 7 4 0 3 210 202
  2008 Preliminary round 14 3 0 1 2 74 88
  2010 Main round 10 6 1 0 5 177 194
  2012 Preliminary round 15 3 0 1 2 82 89
  2014 Main round 9 6 2 0 4 168 179
  2016 Main round 9 6 2 1 3 160 161
  2018 did not qualify
      2020 Preliminary round 22 3 0 0 3 76 91
    2022 Main round 9 7 3 1 3 194 190
  2024 Disqualified during qualification
      2026 Future event
      2028
Total 14/18 1 title 80 41 5 34 2371 2289

TeamEdit

Current squadEdit

Squad for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
1 GK Artyom Grushko (1993-06-20)20 June 1993 (aged 28) 1.93 m 2 0   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
3 LB Dmitrii Santalov (1996-04-07)7 April 1996 (aged 25) 1.96 m 37 105   Meshkov Brest
6 RW Daniil Shishkaryov (1988-07-06)6 July 1988 (aged 33) 1.90 m 145 356   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
10 CB Valentin Vorobev (1995-05-27)27 May 1995 (aged 26) 1.90 m 4 6   CSKA Moscow
17 RB Alexander Kotov (1994-07-11)11 July 1994 (aged 27) 1.98 m 41 49   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
20 LB Mikhail Vinogradov (1997-04-04)4 April 1997 (aged 24) 1.94 m 10 6   Bregenz Handball
23 LW Roman Ostashchenko (1992-09-26)26 September 1992 (aged 29) 1.87 m 48 46   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
24 RW Dmitry Kornev (1992-06-16)16 June 1992 (aged 29) 1.86 m 26 39   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
25 LB Evgenij Dzemin (1997-08-30)30 August 1997 (aged 24) 2.07 m 0 0   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
30 P Aleksandr Ermakov (1996-01-14)14 January 1996 (aged 25) 1.95 m 26 39   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
32 GK Andrei Vereshchagin (1997-01-22)22 January 1997 (aged 24) 1.98 m 2 0   Permskie Medvedi
44 LW Igor Soroka (1991-05-27)27 May 1991 (aged 30) 1.80 m 74 211   CSKA Moscow
76 P Radomir Vrachevich (1999-05-19)19 May 1999 (aged 22) 1.96 m 0 0   Dinamo Viktor Stavropol
78 P Pavel Andreev (1992-07-19)19 July 1992 (aged 29) 1.97 m 28 59   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
87 GK Viktor Kireyev (1987-05-05)5 May 1987 (aged 34) 1.90 m 89 1   CSKA Moscow
89 CB Dmitry Zhitnikov (1989-11-20)20 November 1989 (aged 32) 1.97 m 147 383   Orlen Wisła Płock
98 RB Nikita Kamenev (1998-04-14)14 April 1998 (aged 23) 1.98 m 2 4   Chekhovskiye Medvedi
99 LB Sergei Kosorotov (1999-06-16)16 June 1999 (aged 22) 2.00 m 43 118   Orlen Wisła Płock

Coaching staffEdit

HUR Management Personnel: Andrey Lavrov
Head Coach: Velimir Petković
Coaches: Valentin Buzmakov / Mikhail Izmailov
Videooperator: Andrei Seregin

Notable playersEdit

StatisticsEdit

Most capped playersEdit

Player Games Position Years
Andrey Lavrov 320 GK
Vyacheslav Atavin 288 OB
Vyacheslav Gorpishin 270 ?
Alexey Rastvortsev 251 OB
Vitali Ivanov 236 CB
Eduard Koksharov 226 W
Dmitri Torgovanov 219 P
Dmitry Kovalyov 213 W
Timur Dibirov 212 W
Mikhail Chipurin 208 P
Vasily Kudinov 196 OB
Sergey Pogorelov 194 OB
Dmitry Filippov 160+ CB, W
Denis Krivoshlykov 158 W
Oleg Grams 150 GK
Pavel Sukosyan 145 GK
Talant Duyshebaev 140 CB
Egor Evdokimov 132 P
Alexey Kostygov 131 GK
Stanislav Kulinchenko 125 CB
Daniil Shishkarev 122 W
Dmitry Zhitnikov 119 CB
Alexander Chernoivanov 116 P
Samvel Aslanyan 111 OB
Konstantin Igropulo 110 OB
Pavel Atman 107 CB
Vasily Filippov 101 CB
Valery Gopin 100+ W
Oleg Kiselyov 100+ CB, OB
Oleg Grebnev 100+ P

Top scorersEdit

Player Goals Average Position Years
Eduard Koksharov 1110 4.91 W
Alexey Rastvortsev 898 3.58 OB
Talant Duyshebaev 726+ CB
Dmitri Torgovanov 689 3.15 P
Vyacheslav Atavin 600+ OB
Timur Dibirov 600 W
Vitali Ivanov 522 2.21 CB
Konstantin Igropulo 505 OB
Mikhail Chipurin 505 P
Denis Krivoshlykov 448 2.84 W
Sergey Pogorelov 446 2.30 OB
Dmitry Kovalyov 439 W
Vasily Kudinov 300+ OB
Dmitry Filippov 300+ CB, W
Aleksandr Tuchkin 299 3.25 OB

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
  7. ^ "EHF Court of Handball rejects Russia appeal against ban".
  8. ^ "EHF Court of Handball rejects Russia appeal against ban".
  9. ^ "EHF decision on current competition structures". eurohandball.com. EHF. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.

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