Russia men's national handball team

Russia
Information
AssociationHandball Federation of Russia
(Союз гандболистов России)
CoachLev Voronin
Assistant coachValentin Buzmakov
Mikhail Izmailov
CaptainDaniil Shishkaryov
Most capsAleksey Rastvortsev (251)
Most goalsEduard Koksharov (1110)
Colours
1st
2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances4 (First in 1996)
Best result 1st (2000)
World Championship
Appearances21 (First in 1993)
Best result 1st (1993, 1997)
European Championship
Appearances14 (First in 1994)
Best result 1st (1996)
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Russia men's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney Team
2004 Athens Team
World Championship
1993 Sweden
1997 Japan
1999 Egypt
European Championship
1996 Spain
1994 Portugal
2000 Croatia

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.

It has historically been considered one of the strongest national teams in the world, winning both the World Championship, European Championship and gold at the Olympic Games.

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.[1]

The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Russian national team was established after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union men's national handball team was discontinued. The Handball Federation of Russia became the legal successor to the Soviet Union.[2][3]

Initial success

The first major international tournament that Russia participated in was the 1993 World Men's Handball Championship, which they won.[4] During the 1990's they became one of the best teams in the world, competing for that title with Sweden's 'Bengan Boys'. Russia won the 1996 European Men's Handball Championship and the handball tournament at the 2000 Olympics.[5][6]

2000's

At the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship Russia could not compete under their own flag as the World Anti-Doping Agency had on 9 December 2019 banned Russia from all international sports, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated.[7][8][9] Therefore they competed as a neutral team under the name "Russian Handball Federation Team".[10][11]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Handball Federation banned Russian athletes, and the European Handball Federation suspended all Russian clubs and the national team from competing in European handball competitions.[12]

Honours

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

Competitive record

Summer Olympics

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 2 166 132
2000 Champions 1st 8 7 0 1 219 195
2004 Third place 3rd 8 4 0 4 214 216
2008 Quarter-finals 6th 8 3 1 4 216 214
2012 Did not qualify
2016
2020
2024 Banned
Total 4/7 1 Title 30 18 1 11 815 757

World Championship

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
2025

Banned
2027
2029
TBD
2031

TBD

European Championship

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 1 197 172
2004 5th/6th place 5 7 5 1 1 206 190
2006 5th/6th place 6 7 4 0 3 208 204
2008 Preliminary round 14 3 0 1 2 74 88
2010 Main round 12 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 Banned
2028 Future event
Total 14/18 1 title 83 42 8 33 2254 2189

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 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 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 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 scorers

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

References

  1. ^ Игнатьева, Валентина (15 May 2022). Теория и методика гандбола (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-044972-9.
  2. ^ России, Федерация гандбола. "История Федерации гандбола России". rushandball.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Макаров Борис Николаевич | Спорт-страна.ру" (in Russian). 16 December 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  4. ^ Results 1993 - Todor66
  5. ^ "Handball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Handball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. ^ "1996 Men's European Championship". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  7. ^ MacInnes, Paul (9 December 2019). "Russia banned from Tokyo Olympics and football World Cup". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup". BBC Sport. 9 December 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  9. ^ "WADA lawyer defends lack of blanket ban on Russia". The Japan Times. AP. 13 December 2019. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  10. ^ Dunbar, Graham (17 December 2020). "Russia can't use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics". Associated Press. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Appearance of Russian Handball Federation at the 27th IHF Men's World Championship". ihf.info. 25 December 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
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