Irina Igorevna Poltoratskaya (russian: Ирина Игоревна Полторацкая, born 12 March 1979 in

Antratsyt Antratsyt or Antratsit (; ) is a city in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Until 1962 it was known as Bokove-Antratsyt. The city is located in the southern part of the Luhansk Oblast (region). Antratsyt is incorporated as a city of oblast significa ...

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a Russian

team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team."Oroszország"
''handball.hu'' – 2007 december 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on 20 December 2007) She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the

2005 World Women's Handball Championship The 2005 World Women's Handball Championship, the 17th team handball world championship for women, was played in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 5 and 18 December 2005. Russia won their second title. Qualification Preliminary round ''All times ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in

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. Irina's career in Russia was stopped by a knee injury. Anja Andersen, the coach of Slagelse Dream Team, Denmark brought Irina to Slagelse DT in 2004, and a few months later she underwent surgery and got a new meniscus. The operation was successful, but only a year later did Irina return to the field. Irina scored on penalties for Slagelse in the Champions League final, and she gave Anja Andersen her gold medal from the World Cup, as a thank you for helping her return to the world of handball. Irina left Slagelse after some time and returned to the Russian national team (though a smaller role than before), where she ia. played alongside Emiliya Turey, who she also played with when she played for Slagelse. She is the wife of Russian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player

Timur Dibirov Timur Magomedovich Dibirov (russian: Тимур Магомедович Дибиров; born 30 July 1983) is a Russian handball player who plays for RK Zagreb and the Russian national team. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, w ...

who plays for Macedonian club

RK Vardar RK Vardar 1961 ( mk, РК Вардар 1961) is a professional handball club from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Vardar is the most successful handball team in the country, having won fifteen national League and Cup titles. Also, Vardar is the ...

Individual awards

* MVP of

2007 EHF Women's Champions Trophy The 2007 EHF Women's Champions Trophy was the 12th edition of the European Handball Federation, EHF Super Cup in new format. It started on 22 September 2007. The event was organised at the Traian Sports Hall, Sala Sporturilor Traian by the 2006� ...

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* 1979 births Living people People from Antratsyt Russian female handball players Russian people of Ukrainian descent Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{Russia-handball-bio-stub