Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin

Vyacheslav Atavin

Player information
Full name	Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin
birthday	4th February 1967
place of birth	Krasnoyarsk , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	2.02 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Dinamo Astrakhan
0000-1991	GK Neva St. Petersburg
1991-1997	BM Granollers
1997-2000	SC Magdeburg
2000-2002	BM Granollers
2002-2005	AC Filippos Verias
2005-2007	BM La Roca
National team
Debut on	1988
	Games (goals)
Soviet Union  Russia	288 (???)
As of December 22, 2013

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin ( Russian Вячеслав Владимирович Атавин; born February 4, 1967 in Krasnoyarsk , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian handball player .

The 2.02 m tall Atawin was mostly used in the left back space. He started his career at Dinamo Astrachan and moved to the Spanish league ASOBAL to BM Granollers via the intermediate station GK Newa St. Petersburg , with whom he won the EHF Cup in 1995 and 1996 . After moving to SC Magdeburg , he triumphed in the EHF Cup for the third time in 1999. A year later he returned to Granollers. After a three-year stint in Greece at AC Filippos Verias with old stars like Alexander Tutschkin and József Éles , he played for the Spanish club BM La Roca until his career ended in 2007.

With the Soviet national team he won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the silver medal at the 1990 men's handball world championship . With the Russian national team he was world champion in 1993 and 1997 and European champion in 1996 . Atawin played a total of 288 international matches.

Web links

• Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

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