Mikhail Yakimovich

Mikhail Yakimovich
Yakimovich in 1992
Personal information
Full name Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich
Born (1967-01-13) 13 January 1967[1]
Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Left Backcourt
Senior clubs
Years Team
–1992
 SKA Minsk
1992–1999
 Teka Cantabria
1999–2004
 Portland San Antonio
National team 1
Years Team
 Soviet Union
1992
 Unified Team
1992–1995
 Belarus
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
World Championships
1990 Czechoslovakia Team
Representing the  Unified Team
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona Team
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of June 2009 (UTC)

Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich (Belarusian: Міхаіл Іванавіч Якімовіч; Russian: Михаил Иванович Якимович, born 13 January 1967) is a former Belarusian handball player. Throughout his senior career, Yakimovich played for SKA Minsk in the Soviet Union/Belarus, and later for Teka Cantabria and Portland San Antonio in Spain. Besides numerous other achievements, he won the EHF Champions League with all the three teams.

In 1990 he won a silver medal on the World Championship as a member of the Soviet Union team. Two years later he won the gold medal on the 1992 Olympics with the Unified Team.[2] After the Soviet Union was disbanded, he opted to play for the national team of his native Belarus. He participated on several tournaments with the Belarusian team, and although they never won any medals, he gained several individual recognitions, like coming in as the third best scorer overall on the 1995 World Championship.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Biography of Mikhail Yakimovich". nasledie-sluck.by (in Russian).
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mikhail Yakimovich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Base d'informazión esportiva". Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2009.


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