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Russia men's national handball team

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AssociationHandball Federation of Russia
(Союз гандболистов России)
CoachLev Voronin
Assistant coachValentin Buzmakov
Mikhail Izmailov
CaptainDaniil Shishkaryov
Most capsAleksey Rastvortsev (251)
Most goalsEduard Koksharov (1110)
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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 medal – World 1st (1993, 1997)
European Championship
Appearances14 (First in 1994)
Best resultGold 1st (1996)
Last updated on Unknown.
Russia men's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1993 Sweden
Gold medal – first place 1997 Japan
Silver medal – second place 1999 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1996 Spain
Silver medal – second place 1994 Portugal
Silver medal – second place 2000 Croatia

The Russia national handball team (Russian: Сборная России по гандболу, romanized: Sbornaya Rossii po gandbolu) 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]

2000s

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 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
Spain 1992 As  Unified Team
United States 1996 Preliminary round 5th 6 4 0 2 166 132
Australia 2000 Champions 1st 8 7 0 1 219 195
Greece 2004 Third place 3rd 8 4 0 4 214 216
China 2008 Quarter-finals 6th 8 3 1 4 216 214
United Kingdom 2012 Did not qualify
Brazil 2016
Japan 2020
France 2024 Suspended
United States 2028 To be determined
Australia 2032
Total 4/9 1 Title 30 18 1 11 815 757

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 		Disqualified during qualification
2025 Croatia
Denmark
Norway 		Suspended
2027 Germany
2029 France
Germany 		TBD
2031 Denmark
Iceland
Norway 		TBD

European Championship

Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Portugal 1994 Runners-up 2 7 6 0 1 172 148
Spain 1996 Champions 1 7 6 1 0 172 141
Italy 1998 Fourth place 4 7 3 1 3 179 167
Croatia 2000 Runners-up 2 7 5 0 2 189 175
Sweden 2002 5th/6th place 5 7 5 1 1 197 172
Slovenia 2004 5th/6th place 5 7 5 1 1 206 190
Switzerland 2006 5th/6th place 6 7 4 0 3 208 204
Norway 2008 Preliminary round 14 3 0 1 2 74 88
Austria 2010 Main round 12 6 1 0 5 177 194
Serbia 2012 Preliminary round 15 3 0 1 2 82 89
Denmark 2014 Main round 9 6 2 0 4 168 179
Poland 2016 Main round 9 6 2 1 3 160 161
Croatia 2018 Did not qualify
Austria Norway Sweden 2020 Preliminary round 22 3 0 0 3 76 91
Hungary Slovakia 2022 Main round 9 7 3 1 3 194 190
Germany 2024 Disqualified during qualification
Denmark Norway Sweden 2026 Suspended
Portugal Spain Switzerland 2028 Future event
Czech Republic Denmark Poland 2030
France Germany 2032
Total 14/20 1 title 83 42 8 33 2254 2189

Team

Current squad

This is the list of players named for the friendly tournament in January, 2026.

Nr. Name Position Club
1 Denis Zabolotin Goalkeeper Belarus HC Meshkov Brest
12 Ivan Sharov Goalkeeper Russia Saint Petersburg HC
55 Dmitriy Ionov Left wing Russia HBC CSKA Moscow
80 Ivan Osadchiy Left wing Russia SKIF Krasnodar
10 Ivan Erkanov Right wing Russia HBC CSKA Moscow
76 Andrey Volkhonsky Right wing Russia Permskie Medvedi
23 Ilya Belevtsov Left back Russia HBC CSKA Moscow
25 Evgeniy Dzemin Left back Russia Permskie Medvedi
99 Sergey Kosorotov Left back Poland Wisła Płock
4 Igor Karlov Playmaker Slovakia HT Tatran Prešov
45 Aleksandr Arkatov Playmaker Russia Permskie Medvedi
93 Anton Aksyukov Right back Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
98 Nikita Kamenev Right back Russia Permskie Medvedi
6 Victor Futsev Pivot Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
55 Aleksandr Ermakov Pivot Russia Chekhovskiye Medvedi
77 Raman Tsarapkin Pivot Russia HBC CSKA Moscow

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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