Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova ( rus, Полина Викторовна Кузнецова, , pɐˈlʲinə kʊzʲnʲɪˈtsovə, née Vyakhireva; born 10 June 1987) is a 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

Rostov-Don Rostov-Don (russian: Ростов-Дон) is a female handball team from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Established in 1965, the club was called Rostselmash until 2002. Rostov-Don is competing in the Russian Super League. They have won the league seven ti ...

and the Russian national team. She won gold medals with the Russian national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2005 and 2007 world championships, and was included into the 2007 championship's All-Star Team."All Star csapatban"
''handball.hu'' – 2007 December 16 (Retrieved on 20 December 2007) She retired from the national team, in August 2021. She competes internationally alongside her sister Anna Vyakhireva.

Individual awards

*All-Star Left Wing of the World Championship: 2007 *All-Star Left Wing of the European Championship: 2012 * Team of the Tournament Left Wing of the

Bucharest Trophy The Bucharest Trophy ( ro, Trofeul București) is a pre-season international women's team handball tournament for clubs, held each year in Bucharest, Romania. The competition is hosted by Liga Naţională club CSM Bucharest at the Sala Polivale ...

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*All-Star Left Wing of the

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

: 2016, 2020

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* Russian female handball players 1987 births Living people Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic handball players for Russia Expatriate handball players Russian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-handball-bio-stub