Oleg Velyky ( uk, Олег Великий, ''Oleh Welykyj'') (14 October 1977 – 23 January 2010) was a

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and

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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. He was a World champion 2007 with the German national team (he was on the team roster, but did not play because of an injury). Velyky was born in

Brovary Brovary ( uk, Бровари, , yi, בראָוואַר, Brovar) is a city in Kyiv Oblast (Region) in northern Ukraine, an eastern suburb of the country's capital, Kyiv. It is the administrative centre of Brovary Raion (district). Brovary h ...

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. He became a German citizen in April 2004. He participated on the German team which finished 4th at the

2008 European Men's Handball Championship The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark men's national handball team, Denmark won the tournament ...

."Germany"
– ''European Handball Federation (2008)'' (Retrieved on February 5, 2008)

Club player

Velyky won the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

in 2005 with the club TUSEM Essen and played for the Rhein-Neckar Löwn and

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Family

Velyky was married to Kataryna and had one son.HSV Handball: Oleg Velyky

Health

He ruptured his

cruciate ligament Cruciate ligaments (also cruciform ligaments) are pairs of ligaments arranged like a letter X. They occur in several joints of the body, such as the knee joint and the atlanto-axial joint. In a fashion similar to the cords in a toy Jacob's la ...

twice in 2006 and 2008, and sprained his foot in 2007. His health problems limited his international career to the World Championships in 2005 and one game in the 2008 European Championships. In September 2003, he was diagnosed with a

melanoma Melanoma, also redundantly known as malignant melanoma, is a type of skin cancer that develops from the pigment-producing cells known as melanocytes. Melanomas typically occur in the skin, but may rarely occur in the mouth, intestines, or eye ( ...

; it was in remission until the disease returned in March 2008, and caused his death in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, aged 32, in January 2010.Nationalspieler Velyky wieder an Krebs erkrankt
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* 1977 births 2010 deaths People from Brovary Deaths from cancer in Ukraine Deaths from melanoma Handball-Bundesliga players with retired numbers Ukrainian male handball players German male handball players Naturalized citizens of Germany Ukrainian emigrants to Germany Sportspeople from Kyiv Oblast {{Germany-handball-bio-stub