Lev Gennadiyevich Voronin (russian: Лев Геннадиевич Воронин, born 8 June 1971) 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 and Olympic champion from

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in Sydney."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball"
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''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) He competed for

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at the

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, where the Russian team placed fifth. He was part of the Russian team that won gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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* 1971 births Living people Russian male handball players Olympic handball players for Russia Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Russia Sportspeople from Astrakhan Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Russia-Olympic-medalist-stub