Andrei Ivanovich Lavrov

Andrei Lavrov

Andrei Lavrov (2008)
Player information
birthday	March 26, 1962
place of birth	Krasnodar , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1978-1992	SKIF Krasnodar
1992-1993	TuS 04 Dansenberg
1993-1994	Livry-Gargan handball
1994-1996	US Ivry HB
1996-1999	TV Niederwürzbach
1999-2001	Badel Zagreb
2001-2002	SKIF Krasnodar
2002-2004	TuS Nettelstedt
2004-2004	SG Kronau-Östringen
2004-2005	MT Melsungen
National team
	Games (goals)
Russia	320 (1)
Status: national team October 6, 2007

Andrei Ivanovich Lavrov ( Russian Андрей Иванович Лавров , scientific transliteration Andrej Ivanovič Lavrov ; born March 26, 1962 in Krasnodar , USSR ) is a former Russian handball goalkeeper .

The 1.98 m tall Lavrov has played 320 international matches for the Soviet men's national handball team , later the CIS and ultimately for the Russian men's national handball team and is - based on titles - the most successful handball player in the world.

Career

Lavrov began his career at SKIF Krasnodar , with whom he won the IHF Cup in 1990 , the Soviet Championship in 1991 and 1992, and the Soviet Cup in 1992. In 1992 he moved to the German second division club TuS 04 Kaiserslautern-Dansenberg . He came to TV Niederwürzbach in 1996 through the French clubs US Ivry HB and Livry-Gargan handball . After the team withdrew from the Bundesliga, he moved to Badel Zagreb in 1999 . There he was Croatian champion in 2000 and 2001. When the club also got into financial difficulties, he moved back to Krasnodar and in 2002 to TuS Nettelstedt . On March 5, 2004, he went to relegation-threatened SG Kronau-Östringen , which he left after relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season. From 2004 to 2005 he was under contract with MT Melsungen .

Lavrov is the only athlete to have won three Olympic gold medals for three different national teams: in 1988 for the Soviet Union, 1992 for the CIS and 2000 for Russia. At the age of 42, he won his fourth Olympic medal in Athens in 2004 when the Russian national handball team took third place.

Andrei Lavrov was the captain of the Russian national team for many years and carried the Russian flag into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Two world championship titles, 1993 and 1997, as well as a European championship title in 1996 round off his track record.

In 2001 he was voted handball player of the century in Russia . In the 2000 IHF election for World Handball Player of the Century , he came third with 17% behind Magnus Wislander (20.4%) and Talant Dujshebaev (18.7%).

In 2005 he returned to Russia. Lavrov is now working in the Russian Ministry of Sports, where he and his former companion Alexander Tutschkin are trying to make the sport of handball more popular in Russia.

successes

• 1988 gold medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul
• 1992 gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona
• 2000 gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney
• 2004 bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens
• 1990 Vice World Champion in Czechoslovakia
• 1993 world champion in Sweden
• 1997 world champion in Japan
• 1999 Vice World Champion in Egypt
• 1994 Vice European Champion
• 1996 European champion
• 2000 Vice European Champion
• 1990 IHF Cup
• 1991 and 1992 Soviet champion
• 1992 Soviet cup winner
• 2000 and 2001 Croatian champion
• 2000 Croatian cup winner

Web links

• Andrei Lavrov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Andrei Lavrov in the database of the European Handball Federation
• Andrei Lavrow on the website of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen
• Wagner A, in Die Welt on August 14, 2004, When a 42-year-old is chasing his record - Russian Andrei Lavrov wants fourth handball gold

Individual evidence

1. ↑ handball-news.de of January 14, 2004: Trainer Maximov relies on his old stars , accessed on October 6, 2007 ( memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Dossier: Top Topic of 1992 ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de of October 12, 1998: Opponents TV Niederwürzbach season 1997/98 , accessed on March 18, 2009
4. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponents Badel Zagreb 1999/2000
5. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de opponents team TuS Nettelstedt 2002/03 accessed on January 24, 2015
6. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de enemy squads SG Kronau / Östringen 2003/04 Retrieved on January 24, 2015
7. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de opponents team MT Melsungen 2005/06 accessed on January 24, 2015
8. ↑ abc.net.au of August 4, 2004: Andrej Lavrov: Shooting for fourth gold , accessed on October 6, 2007
9. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de Wislander "world handball player of the century" of 19 June 2000 called, on 28 March 2014
10. ^ Lexicon of handball players, Komet Verlag, p. 136, ISBN 3-89836-605-7
11. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de Stefan Lövgren plays for world selection in Moscow on December 28, 2005, accessed on January 24, 2015