Aleksey Petrovich Rastvortsev (russian: Алексей Петрович Растворцев; born August 8, 1978) 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 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), ...

(bronze winner) 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 played for the Russian National Handball Team 251 match and scored over 900 goals. In his career he played for HC Neva (St. Peterburg), HC Energija (Voronez), HC Chekhovskie Medvedi (Chekhov, Moskovskaja oblast),

RK Vardar RK Vardar 1961 ( mk, РК Вардар 1961) is a professional handball club from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Vardar is the most successful handball team in the country, having won fifteen national League and Cup titles. Also, Vardar is the ...

(Skopje) and

RK Vojvodina RK Vojvodina () is a Serbian handball club based in Novi Sad. They compete in the Serbian Handball Super League. History Founded in 1948, the club won the Serbia and Montenegro Handball Super League and Serbia and Montenegro Handball Cup in ...

( Novi Sad). He finished his active sports career in 2016 and since then he is deputy sport director in

; they won the EHF Champions League in 2017.

Career

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 40 goals. Four years later he finished sixth with the Russian team in the 2008 Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches again and scored 25 goals. Aleksey has finished Faculty for Physical Education in 2001 and is pronounced Honorary Master of Sport of Russia in 2004. *Champion of Russia 10 times with HC Chekhovskie Medvedi 2003–2013 *Champion of Macedonia with RK Vardar season 2014–15 *Champion of Serbia with RK Vojvodina season 2015–16 *Winner of the EHF Cup Winner's Cup season 2005–06 *EHF Champions League Final 4 season 2009–10 *Winner of SEHA League season 2013–14 *Winner of the Intercontinental Cup 2002 in Russia.

Incident

On 6 December 2015 players and staff of

were travelling by plane from Portugal, where RK Vojvodina had lost an EHF Champions League game against

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

, back to Serbia. When one of the passengers, a Jordanian citizen with an American passport, tried to break into the plane's cockpit, he was tackled by Rastvortsev and Milan Mirković, club's assistant coach. The passenger stayed calm for the rest of the flight, but he was observed by the player and the coach.

References

External links

*http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/cl/men/2015-16/player/514604/AlexeiRastvortsev *http://www.alleyasporta.ru/article/view/272 *https://web.archive.org/web/20160105235112/http://www.rushandball.ru/news/prezident-serbii-prinyal-alekseya-rastvorceva-predotvrativshego-chp-v-samolete * 1978 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 Sportspeople from Belgorod RK Vardar players {{Russia-handball-bio-stub