Russia
Information
Association	Handball Federation of Russia (Союз гандболистов России)
Coach	Velimir Petković
Assistant coach	Valentin Buzmakov Mikhail Izmailov
Captain	Daniil Shishkaryov
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1996)
Best result	1st (2000)
World Championship
Appearances	21 (First in 1993)
Best result	1st (1993, 1997)
European Championship
Appearances	14 (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.

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.

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

Results

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	165	132
2000	Champions	1st	8	7	0	1	219	195
2004	Third place	3rd	8	4	0	4	214	216
2008	Preliminary round	6th	8	3	1	4	216	214
2012	Did not qualify
2016
2020
2024	Banned
Total	4/7	1 Title	30	18	1	11	814	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		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	166	144
2004	5th/6th place	5	7	4	1	2	206	190
2006	5th/6th place	6	7	4	0	3	210	202
2008	Preliminary round	14	3	0	1	2	74	88
2010	Main round	10	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	Future event
2028
Total	14/18	1 title	80	41	5	34	2371	2289

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

References

External links

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