Olympic Handball Players of the Soviet Union - Andrey Lavrov, Aleksandr Tuchkin, Serhiy Kushniryuk, Vyacheslav Atavin, Yury Klimov (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 148. Not illustrated. Chapters: Andrey Lavrov, Aleksandr Tuchkin, Serhiy Kushniryuk, Vyacheslav Atavin, Yury Klimov, Aldona Nen nien, Vasily Ilyin, Tatyana Dzhandzhgava, Anatoli Fedyukin, Zinaida Turchyna, Aleksandr Anpilogov, Yevgeni Vasilyevich Chernyshov, Valery Gopin, Larysa Karlova, Nataliya Rusnachenko, Natalya Morskova, Valeri Gassy, Elina Guseva, Mykhaylo Ishchenko, Aleksandr Karshakevich, Maryna Bazhanova, Natalya Anisimova, Tetyana Horb, Tetyana Hlushchenko, Lyudmila Poradnyk, Vladimir Maksimov, Tetyana Kocherhina, Lyubov Odynokova, Nataliya Tymoshkina, Mykola Tomyn, Yuri Kidyaev, Igor Chumak, Vladimir Kravtsov, Voldemaras Novickis, Oleksandr Rezanov, Yuriy Lahutyn, Yuri Shevtsov, Georgi Sviridenko, Konstantin Sharovarov, Mikhail Vasilev, Iryna Palchykova, Valentyna Lutayeva, Aleksandr Rymanov, Natalya Lapitskaya, Halyna Zakharova, Olha Zubaryeva, Andrey Tyumentsev, Lyudmyla Panchuk, Yuri Nesterov, Mariya Litoshenko, Sigita Stre en, Vladimir Repev, Yevheniya Tovstohan, Nina Lobova, Olena Nemashkalo, Rafiga Shabanova, Svitlana Mankova, Nataliya Matryuk, Aleksey Zhuk, Olha Semenova, Vladimir Belov, Viktor Makhorin, Lyudmila Shubina, Larisa Savkina, Yuliya Safina, Albert Oganezov, Alexander Panov, J nis Vilsons, Valentin Kulev. Excerpt: Andrey Ivanovich Lavrov (Russian: , born March 26, 1962 in Krasnodar) is a Russian (and former Soviet) handball goalkeeper and the only three times Olympic handball champion. Lavrov is also the only athlete to have won Olympic gold medals for three different nation's teams, winning gold for Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and for Russia in 2000. Four years later, at the age of 42, he won his fourth olympic medal, another unique feat for a handball player, when his Russian team earned third place and the bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic games. Lavrov was a long time ...