Alexander Valeryevich Gorbatikow

Alexander Gorbatikov

Player information
Full name	Alexander Valeryevich Gorbatikow
birthday	4th June 1982
place of birth	Volgograd , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	1.87 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1999-2009	Dinamo Astrakhan
National team
Debut on	2003
	Games (goals)
Russia	24 (10)
As of February 13, 2014

Alexander Valerjewitsch Gorbatikow ( Russian Александр Валерьевич Горбатиков ; born June 4, 1982 in Volgograd , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian handball player , who was mostly used in the back center position.

The 1.87 m tall and 95 kg heavy Gorbatikow began his professional career in 1999 at Dinamo Astrakhan . From 2001 to 2008 he was Russian runner-up behind Medvedi Chekhov , he also reached the final in the EHF Cup 2002/03 , but lost to FC Barcelona there . In the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons he reached the semi-finals of the EHF Cup, but failed at THW Kiel and TUSEM Essen . In 2008 he won the Russian Cup. After several knee operations, he ended his career after the 2008/09 season.

With the Russian junior selection he won the European Junior Championship in 2001 and the U21 World Championship in 2001, scoring 9 goals in the final. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he won the bronze medal with the Russian national team .

Alexander Gorbatikov is a physical education teacher and a graduate of the Astrakhan State Pedagogical University. At the beginning of 2014 he carried the Olympic torch in Astrakhan ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

Web links

• Alexander Valeryevich Gorbatikow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Alexander Valeryevich Gorbatikow in the database of the European Cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.thw-provinzial.de Opponent Squad Astrachan 2003/04 accessed on February 13, 2014
2. ↑ handball.tvknielingen.de Ten minutes for the success of January 14, 2007 (PDF; 27 kB)
3. ↑ www.news.ch Second U21 handball title for Russia on September 2, 2001
4. ↑ www.infosport.ru Alexander Gorbatikow accessed on February 13, 2014 (Russian)
5. ↑ torchrelay.sochi2014.com The Sochi 2014 Olympic Flame rode on chunkas, a carriage, and camels in Astrakhan accessed on February 13, 2014 (English)