Serhiy Georgievich Kushniryuk ( ua, Сергій Георгійович Кушнiрюк, born 15 March 1956) is a retired Ukrainian

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 part of the Soviet teams that won a gold medal at the

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and placed second in

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. He also won a gold and a silver medal at the world championships in 1978 and 1982.Serhiy Kushniryuk
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1956 births Living people Soviet male handball players Ukrainian male handball players Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in handball People from Chortkiv Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics ZTR players Sportspeople from Ternopil Oblast Friendship Games medalists in handball {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub