HANDBALL PLAYER

Andrey Lavrov

1962 - Today

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Andrey Ivanovich Lavrov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Лавров; born March 26, 1962, in Krasnodar) is a Russian former handball goalkeeper and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. Lavrov is also one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic gold medals for three different teams, clinching gold for the Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and for Russia in 2000. Four years later, at the age of 42, he won his fourth Olympic medal, another unique feat for a handball player, when his Russian team earned third place and the bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Lavrov was a long-time captain for the Russian handball team, and served as the flagbearer for the Russian athletes at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrey Lavrov is the 11th most popular handball player (up from 13th in 2019), the 1,786th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,855th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Handball Player.

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Andrey Lavrov ranks 11 out of 420. Before him are Nikola Karabatić, Gheorghe Gruia, Mikkel Hansen, Magnus Wislander, Zinaida Turchyna, and Ștefan Birtalan. After him are Ivano Balić, Wilhelm Müller, Karl Kreutzberg, Albin Vidović, Edgar Reinhardt, and Rudolf Stahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Andrey Lavrov ranks 252. Before him are Jack Irons, Volodymyr Pravyk, Thomas Ian Griffith, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Jean-Pierre Bemba, and Terence Trent D'Arby. After him are Jon Stewart, Domènec Torrent, Tom Kane, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mircea Rednic, and Bruno Bellone.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Lavrov ranks 1,786 out of 3,761. Before him are Klara Guseva (1937), Mark Midler (1931), Natalya Arinbasarova (1946), Tatyana Vasilyeva (1947), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), and Yuri Nagibin (1920). After him are Olha Bryzhina (1963), Andrei Gavrilov (1955), Irina Miroshnichenko (1942), Suleyman Kerimov (1966), Ivan Babushkin (1873), and Andrei Kolkoutine (1957).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In Russia

Among handball players born in Russia, Andrey Lavrov ranks 1. After him are Vasily Kudinov (1969), Sergey Pogorelov (1974), Valery Gopin (1964), Eduard Koksharov (1975), Dmitri Torgovanov (1974), Denis Krivoshlykov (1971), Timur Dibirov (1983), Anna Vyakhireva (1995), Lyudmila Postnova (1984), Yekaterina Andryushina (1985), and Victoriya Kalinina (1988).

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