Natalya Ilyina (née Kulakova, born 1985) is a

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 from

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. She has played on the

Kazakhstan women's national handball team The Kazakhstan women's national handball team is the national handball team of Kazakhstan and takes part in international handball competitions. The team participated in the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China, finishing 22nd. At ...

, and participated at the

2011 World Women's Handball Championship The 2011 World Women's Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the international championship tournament in women's Team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). Brazil hosted the event from 2–18 Dec ...

in Brazil. She used to be the wife of Kazakhstan Olympic champion in weightlifting

Ilya Ilyin Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin (russian: Илья Александрович Ильин; born 24 May 1988) is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who won four world championships. On 12 December, 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin s ...

, but divorced him in 2017.

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1985 births Living people Kazakhstani female handball players Handball players at the 2010 Asian Games Handball players at the 2014 Asian Games Handball players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games medalists in handball Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Kazakhstani women {{Kazakhstan-handball-bio-stub