The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 420 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 32nd most number of Handball Players behind North Macedonia, and Réunion.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Zinaida Turchyna (b. 1946)
With an HPI of 56.79, Zinaida Turchyna is the most famous Ukrainian Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna (Ukrainian: Зінаїда Михайлiвна Турчина, née Stolitenko on 17 May 1946) is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Coached by her husband Ihor Turchyn she competed for the Soviet Union in all major international tournaments in 1973–1988, except for the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics, and won three Olympic and five world championship medals. In 2000, a panel from the International Handball Federation and sports journalists named her the best female handball player of the 20th century.
2. Irina Poltoratskaya (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 41.30, Irina Poltoratskaya is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Irina Igorevna Poltoratskaya (Russian: Ирина Игоревна Полторацкая, born 12 March 1979 in Antratsyt, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian team handball player and handball coach, who manages Rostov-Don in the Russian League. In her playing days she played on the Russian women's national handball team. She won World Championship gold medals with the Russian team in the 2001, 2005 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the 2007 World Championship in France. She was included in the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in 2023.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Ukrainian handball players born between 1946 and 1979. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ukrainian handball players include Zinaida Turchyna, and Irina Poltoratskaya.
