Lyudmila Grigoryevna Postnova (russian: Людмила Григорьевна Постнова) (born 11 August 1984) is a former 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 for, who last played for

HC Astrakhanochka Handball Club Astrakhanochka is a Russian women's handball club from Astrakhan established in 1993. It has played in the Russian Super League since 1999, and in 2004 it made its debut in EHF competitions. It reached the EHF Cup's semifinals in 2 ...

and the Russian women's national handball team."Oroszország"
''handball.hu'' – 2007 december 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on December 20, 2007). Postnova is considered one of the greatest Russian players of all time. She won gold medal with the Russian winning team at 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 ...

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, again at the

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, and once more at the

2009 World Women's Handball Championship The 2009 World Women's Handball Championship was the 19th edition, second to take place outside Europe, of the international championship tournament in women's team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). C ...

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, when she was also given the title of Most Valuable Player of the championship. She has played for Russian club Lada Togliatti from 2004 to 2009. Since 2010, she is playing for Zvezda Zvenigorod. In February 2016 she returns to play handball at

.Official squad 2012 Women’s EHF European Championship

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1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Yaroslavl Russian female handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-handball-bio-stub