Russia men's national handball team

The Russia national handball team (Russian: Сборная России по гандболу) is controlled by the Handball Federation of Russia. Russia is designates 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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1st
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2nd
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)
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Russia men's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneyTeam
Bronze medal – third place2004 AthensTeam
World Championship
Gold medal – first place1993 Sweden
Gold medal – first place1997 Japan
Silver medal – second place1999 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal – first place1996 Spain
Silver medal – second place1994 Portugal
Silver medal – second place2000 Croatia


History

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.

Honours

Competition1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Total
Olympic Games 1012
World Championship 2103
European Championship 1203
Total4318

Results

Summer Olympics

Year Round Position Pld W D L GS GA
19721988As  Soviet Union
Spain 1992As  Unified Team
United States 1996Preliminary round5th6402165132
Australia 2000Champions1st8701219195
Greece 2004Third place3rd8404214216
China 2008Preliminary round6th8314216214
United Kingdom 2012Did not qualify
Brazil 2016
Japan 2020
France 2024Banned
Total4/71 Title3018111814757

World Championship

1993 Sweden Champions
1995 Iceland 5th place
1997 Japan Champions
1999 Egypt Runners-up
2001 France 6th place
2003 Portugal 5th place
2005 Tunisia 8th place
2007 Germany 6th place
2009 Croatia 16th place
2011 Sweden did not qualify
2013 Spain 7th place
2015 Qatar 19th place
2017 France 12th place
2019 Germany
Denmark
14th place
2021 Egypt 14th place (played as RHF Team)
2023 Poland
Sweden
eliminated by EHF
2025 Croatia
Denmark
Norway
TBD
2027 Germany TBD

    European Championship

    Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
    Portugal 1994Runners-up27601172148
    Spain 1996Champions17610172141
    Italy 1998Fourth place47313179167
    Croatia 2000Runners-up27502189175
    Sweden 20025th/6th place57511166144
    Slovenia 20045th/6th place57412206190
    Switzerland 20065th/6th place67403210202
    Norway 2008Preliminary round1430127488
    Austria 2010Main round106105177194
    Serbia 2012Preliminary round1530128289
    Denmark 2014Main round96204168179
    Poland 2016Main round96213160161
    Croatia 2018did not qualify
    Austria Norway Sweden 2020Preliminary round2230037691
    Hungary Slovakia 2022Main round97313194190
    Germany 2024Disqualified during qualification
    Denmark Norway Sweden 2026Future event
    Portugal Spain Switzerland 2028
    Total14/181 title804153423712289

    Team

    Current squad

    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 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    3 LB Dmitrii Santalov (1996-04-07)7 April 1996 (aged 25) 1.96 m 37 105 Belarus Meshkov Brest
    6 RW Daniil Shishkaryov (1988-07-06)6 July 1988 (aged 33) 1.90 m 145 356 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    10 CB Valentin Vorobev (1995-05-27)27 May 1995 (aged 26) 1.90 m 4 6 Russia CSKA Moscow
    17 RB Alexander Kotov (1994-07-11)11 July 1994 (aged 27) 1.98 m 41 49 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    20 LB Mikhail Vinogradov (1997-04-04)4 April 1997 (aged 24) 1.94 m 10 6 Austria Bregenz Handball
    23 LW Roman Ostashchenko (1992-09-26)26 September 1992 (aged 29) 1.87 m 48 46 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    24 RW Dmitry Kornev (1992-06-16)16 June 1992 (aged 29) 1.86 m 26 39 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    25 LB Evgenij Dzemin (1997-08-30)30 August 1997 (aged 24) 2.07 m 0 0 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    30 P Aleksandr Ermakov (1996-01-14)14 January 1996 (aged 25) 1.95 m 26 39 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    32 GK Andrei Vereshchagin (1997-01-22)22 January 1997 (aged 24) 1.98 m 2 0 Russia Permskie Medvedi
    44 LW Igor Soroka (1991-05-27)27 May 1991 (aged 30) 1.80 m 74 211 Russia CSKA Moscow
    76 P Radomir Vrachevich (1999-05-19)19 May 1999 (aged 22) 1.96 m 0 0 Russia Dinamo Viktor Stavropol
    78 P Pavel Andreev (1992-07-19)19 July 1992 (aged 29) 1.97 m 28 59 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    87 GK Viktor Kireyev (1987-05-05)5 May 1987 (aged 34) 1.90 m 89 1 Russia CSKA Moscow
    89 CB Dmitry Zhitnikov (1989-11-20)20 November 1989 (aged 32) 1.97 m 147 383 Poland Orlen Wisła Płock
    98 RB Nikita Kamenev (1998-04-14)14 April 1998 (aged 23) 1.98 m 2 4 Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
    99 LB Sergei Kosorotov (1999-06-16)16 June 1999 (aged 22) 2.00 m 43 118 Poland Orlen Wisła Płock

    Coaching staff

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

    Notable players

    Statistics

    Most capped players

    Player Games Position Years
    Andrey Lavrov320GK
    Vyacheslav Atavin288OB
    Vyacheslav Gorpishin270?
    Alexey Rastvortsev251OB
    Vitali Ivanov236CB
    Eduard Koksharov226W
    Dmitri Torgovanov219P
    Dmitry Kovalyov213W
    Timur Dibirov212W
    Mikhail Chipurin208P
    Vasily Kudinov196OB
    Sergey Pogorelov194OB
    Dmitry Filippov160+CB, W
    Denis Krivoshlykov158W
    Oleg Grams150GK
    Pavel Sukosyan145GK
    Talant Duyshebaev140CB
    Egor Evdokimov132P
    Alexey Kostygov131GK
    Stanislav Kulinchenko125CB
    Daniil Shishkarev122W
    Dmitry Zhitnikov119CB
    Alexander Chernoivanov116P
    Samvel Aslanyan111OB
    Konstantin Igropulo110OB
    Pavel Atman107CB
    Vasily Filippov101CB
    Valery Gopin100+W
    Oleg Kiselyov100+CB, OB
    Oleg Grebnev100+P

    Top scorers

    Player Goals Average Position Years
    Eduard Koksharov11104.91W
    Alexey Rastvortsev8983.58OB
    Talant Duyshebaev726+CB
    Dmitri Torgovanov6893.15P
    Vyacheslav Atavin600+OB
    Timur Dibirov600W
    Vitali Ivanov5222.21CB
    Konstantin Igropulo505OB
    Mikhail Chipurin505P
    Denis Krivoshlykov4482.84W
    Sergey Pogorelov4462.30OB
    Dmitry Kovalyov439W
    Vasily Kudinov300+OB
    Dmitry Filippov300+CB, W
    Aleksandr Tuchkin2993.25OB

    References

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