1997 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1997 World Men's Handball Championship was the 15th team handball World Championship. It was held in Kumamoto, Japan and was the first World Championship not played in a European country. Russia men's national handball team, Russia won the championship. Qualification Venues The organizing committee used four venues to host the 1997 World Men's Handball Championship: * Group A: Park Dome Kumamoto * Group B: Kumamoto City Gym * Group C: Yamaga, Kumamoto, Yamaga City Gym * Group D: Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Yatsushiro City Gym Preliminary round The top 4 placed teams of each group continues to the knockout stage. The teams are ranked through the following rules. #Team with the most points (2 points for each won game, 1 point for each drawn game). #If two teams get the same points, the winner in the game between the two teams get ranked first. #If the game between the teams ended in a draw, the team with the best goal difference get ranked first. Group A ---- ---- ---- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoon Kyung-shin
Yoon Kyung-shin (; born July 7, 1973) is a South Korean handball manager and former player. Playing career Yoon Kyung-shin played in the German league Handball-Bundesliga through his outstanding performances in World Men's Handball Championship, World Championships. He played for VfL Gummersbach from 1996 to 2006, and for HSV Handball, HSV Hamburg from 2006 to 2008. He became the top goalscorer of the Bundesliga seven times, and is currently the second highest scoring player of Bundesliga with 2,905 goals. He was also voted the IHF World Player of the Year, World Player of the Year by the International Handball Federation (IHF) in 2001. He played more than 260 games for the South Korea national handball team, and was top goalscorer at three World Men's Handball Championship, World Championships and one Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics. At the 1995 World Men's Handball Championship, 1995 World Championship he broke the record for most non-penalty goals at a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gold Medal Blank
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, being the second-lowest in the reactivity series. It is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental (native state), as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as in electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), forming a soluble tetrachloroaurate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lev Voronin (handballer)
Lev Gennadiyevich Voronin (, born 8 June 1971) is a Russian team handball coach and former player and Olympic champion from 2000 in Sydney."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) ''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) He competed for at the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oleg Kuleshov
Oleg Mikhaylovich Kuleshov (, born 15 April 1974) is a former Russian handball player and current coach who won both the World Championship and European Championship. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Currently he is the head coach of Dinamo Volgograd women's handball team. Career Kuleshov played early in his career for HC Kaustik Volgograd from 1991 to 1999, where he won the Russian Handball Super League in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He then joined German side SC Magdeburg, where he won the 2011 Handball-Bundesliga, EHF Cup Winners' Cup and Club World Cup. In 2002 he won the EHF Champions League and in 2007 he won the EHF Cup. In 2007 he joined VfL Gummersbach. A year later he retired due to injuries. National team Kuleshov played 123 games for the Russian national team, scoring 390 goals. He was part of the Russian 1990's golden generation that won the 1996 European Men's Handball Championship and the 1997 World Men's Handball ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Igor Lavrov
Igor Viktorovich Lavrov (, born 4 June 1973) is a Russian team handball player and Olympic champion from 2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ... in Sydney."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) ''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) References [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vyacheslav Atavin
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin (, born February 4, 1967, in Krasnodar) is a former Soviet and Russian handball player. upleft, The CIS team in 1992 During the Soviet period of his career Atavin trained at Dynamo in Astrakhan. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1988 and competed for the USSR National Team between 1988 and 1991. In 1988 he won the gold medal with the USSR team at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He played all six matches and scored 23 goals. Since 1992 he competed for Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders .... Private Atavin graduated from Astrakhan Institute of Fish Industry and Economics in 1990. References External linksprofile 1967 births Living people Soviet male handball players Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Ru ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oleg Grebnev
Oleg Nikolayevich Grebnev (, born 4 February 1968) is a retired Russian team handball player who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... He won a gold medal in 1992 and finished fifth in 1996.Oleg Grebnev ''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 19 December 2008) He also won the world title in 1993 and 1997 and a European title in 1996. . shc-kaustik.ru [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stanislav Kulinchenko
Stanislav Vladimirovich Kulinchenko (Russian: Станислав Владимирович Кулинченко, born 19 April 1971) is a Russian former handball player. He played for the Russia men's national handball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where Russia won the gold medal. Club career Kulinchenko started playing handball aged 10 in Krasnodar Krasnodar, formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 1,154,885 residents, and up to 1.263 millio .... His first senior club was SKIF Krasnodar followed by Dinamo Chelyabinsk. In 1996 he moved to Germany to join HC Empor Rostock, where he played until 1998. He then joined TSG Bielefeld. In 1999 he joined Croatian Badel 1862 Zagreb, where he won the Croatian championship and cup in 2000. Afterwards he joined Slovenian RK Celje, where he won the 2001 Slovenian Champi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dmitri Torgovanov
Dmitri Nikolaevich Torgovanov (; born 5 January 1972) is a former Russian handball player and Olympic Champion from 2000 in Sydney. He is currently a head coach for Neva. He was the head coach for the Russian national team between 2015 and 2017. He received a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ... with the Russian national team. ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 2, 2008) References [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vyacheslav Gorpishin
Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Gorpishin (, born January 20, 1970) is a Russian team handball player and Olympic champion from 2000 in Sydney."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 2, 2008) He received a bronze medal at the in with the Russian national team. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vasily Kudinov
Vasily Kudinov (17 February 1969 – 11 February 2017) was a Russian handball player, born in Ilyinka, Astrakhan Oblast, Russian SFSR. upleft, The CIS team in 1992 He participated in three Olympics, winning two gold medals and one bronze medal. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal with the Unified Team at the Olympics. He played for the Russia men's national handball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where Russia won the gold medal. Kudinov died on 11 February 2017, six days prior to his 48th birthday, in Astrakhan Astrakhan (, ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression, from the Caspian Se .... References External links * 1969 births 2017 deaths People from Astrakhan Oblast Russian male handball players Olympic handball players for the Unified Team Soviet male handball ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pavel Sukosyan
Pavel Alekseyevich Sukosyan (; born 14 January 1962) is a Russian handball player. He played for the Russia men's national handball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ... in Sydney, where Russia won the gold medal. References External links * 1962 births Living people Russian sportspeople of Armenian descent Russian male handball players Olympic handball players for Russia Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Russia Handball players from Krasnodar Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |