Vitali Vladimirovich Ivanov (russian: Виталий Владимирович Иванов, born February 3, 1976) is a retired 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 who competed in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

and in the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

. He was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany. In 2004 he was a member of the Russian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches and scored 20 goals. Four years later he finished sixth with the Russian team in the 2008 Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches again and scored five goals.

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1976 births Living people Russian male handball players Olympic handball players for Russia Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Moscow State Mining University alumni {{Russia-handball-bio-stub