Valery Pavlovich Gopin (russian: Валерий Павлович Гопин, born 8 May 1964) 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. He became Olympic champion in

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with the Soviet Union national handball team, and in

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with the Unified Team.Profile: Valery Gopin
''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) He became European champion with the Russia national handball team in 1996.

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* 1964 births Living people Russian male handball players Soviet male handball players Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Olympic handball players for the Unified Team Olympic handball players for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics People from Seltso Sportspeople from Bryansk Oblast Goodwill Games medalists in handball Goodwill Games gold medalists Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Expatriate sports coaches Russian handball coaches Expatriate handball players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Russian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Handball coaches of international teams Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub