Yelena Polenova (handballer)

Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova
Personal information
Born (1983-08-20) 20 August 1983
Uralsk, Kazakh SSR
Nationality Russian
Height 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Retired
Senior clubs
Years Team
2000-2005
Dinamo Volgograd
2005-2010
Zvezda Zvenigorod
2010-2011
HC Astrakhanochka
2011-2012
Le Havre AC
2012-?
Blanzat Sport Montluçon
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Russia 106 (392[1])
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Women's handball
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Team
World Championship
2005 Russia Team
2007 France Team
European Championship
2006 Sweden Team
2008 Macedonia Team

Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova (Russian: Елена Ильинична Полёнова) (born 20 August 1983 in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team.[2] She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France. She won a silver medal in the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden. At the 2008 Olympics she won silver medals with the Russian team.

Career

In 2005 she joined Dinamo Volgograd from Zvezda Zvenigorod. Here she won the 2007 Russian championship and EHF European League and the 2008 EHF Champions League.[3] In 2011-12 she played a single season at HC Astrakhanochka, before joining Le Havre AC in the French league.[1] After a year she joined Blanzat Sport Montluçon.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Elena Polenova s'engage avec Le Havre" (in French). handzone.net. 29 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Oroszország" handball.hu – 2007 December 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on 20 December 2007)
  3. ^ Todor Krastev. "Women Handball European Champions Cup and Champions League Archive". Todor 66. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Hanball: Elena Polenova a signé au BSM" (in French). laMontagne.fr. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2019.