Victoria Yuryevna Zhilinskayte (russian: Виктория Юрьевна Жилинскайте, lt, Viktorija Žilinskaitė; born 6 March 1989) 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

HC Kuban Krasnodar HC Kuban Krasnodar is a Russian women's handball team from Krasnodar competing in the Russian Super League. Kuban enjoyed its golden era in the late 1980s, winning two Cup Winners' Cups in 1987 and 1988 by beating TSC Berlin and Vasas Budapes ...

and the Russian national handball team. At the

2009 World Women's Handball Championship The 2009 World Women's Handball Championship was the 19th edition, second to take place outside Europe, of the international championship tournament in women's team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). C ...

she reached the final and won the gold medal with the Russian team, defeating

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. She competed at the

2011 World Women's Handball Championship The 2011 World Women's Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the international championship tournament in women's Team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). Brazil hosted the event from 2–18 Dec ...

in Brazil, where the Russian team placed 6th. She is of Lithuanian descent. Her twin sister,

Yana Zhilinskayte Yana Yuryevna Zhilinskayte (russian: Яна Юрьевна Жилинскайте, lt, Janina Žilinskaitė; born 6 March 1989) is a Russian handball player for Handball Club Lada and the Russian national team. She is the twin sister of Victoria ...

, is also a handball player.

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* 1989 births Living people Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic handball players for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Russian female handball players Russian people of Lithuanian descent {{Russia-handball-bio-stub