Dmitri Rudolfowitsch Filippow

Dmitry Filippov

Player information
Full name	Dmitri Rudolfowitsch Filippow
Nickname	"Dima"
birthday	May 19, 1969
place of birth	Krasnodar , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	1.87 m
Playing position	Back center
	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1994	SKIF Krasnodar
1994-1996	UMF Stjarnan
1996-2001	LTV Wuppertal
2001-2002	HC Up Rostock
2002-2007	SV Anhalt Bernburg
2007-2011	HC Aschersleben
National team
	Games (goals)
Russia	160
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2007-2011	HC Aschersleben
2011-2013	HV Wernigerode
2013–	HC Aschersleben
As of March 28, 2014

Dmitri Rudolfowitsch Filippow ( Russian Дмитрий Рудольфович Филиппов , born May 19, 1969 in Krasnodar , Soviet Union ) is a Russian handball trainer and former handball player who was mostly used on the back center and left wing .

Career

As a player

The 1.87 m tall and 82 kg heavy right-hander began his professional career in his hometown at SKIF Krasnodar . With this club he won the Soviet championship in 1991 and 1992 and the cup in 1992. In the EHF Cup 1989/90 he defeated Proleter Zrenjanin in the final . After a stint at the Icelandic club UMF Stjarnan , he moved to the German handball league in 1996 for the newly promoted LTV Wuppertal . He was nominated for the HBL All-Star Game in 2000 and 2001 and scored three and five goals respectively. In the 2000/01 season he was the fourth top scorer in the league with 240 goals in 38 games, but could not prevent relegation. He then joined the second division HC Empor Rostock . In November 2002 he moved to SV Anhalt Bernburg and stayed with the hitchhikers until 2007.

With the Russian national team he was world champion at the 1993 World Cup. In 1994 he became vice European champion behind Sweden. At the 1995 World Cup , he was the second best tournament scorer with 69 goals, but finished with his team only a disappointing fifth place. At the 1996 Olympics , he was fifth. In the same year he became European champion . After he was not nominated for the World Cup in 1997 and not for the European Championship in 1998, he returned at the 1999 World Cup , but lost in the final to the great rivals of the decade from Sweden. Even at the European Championships in 2000 , he had to be content with silver behind the Scandinavians. At the 2000 Olympic Games , he took revenge in the final and won his second gold medal. For the Olympic victory in 1992 he received the award of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР). In total, he played over 160 international matches .

As a trainer

From 2007 to 2011 Dmitri Filippow was player-coach at the upper division HC Aschersleben , which he led up to the 2nd Bundesliga. After relegation to the regional league in 2011, he became a coach at HV Wernigerode in the Saxony-Anhalt league. In the summer of 2013 he returned to the coaching position of the third division club Aschersleben.

Others

Dmitri Filippov is married and has two children. He works as a physical education teacher at the Adam Olearius School in Aschersleben. On February 4, 2014, he carried the Olympic torch through his hometown of Krasnodar in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics .

Web links

• Dmitri Filippow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.mbl.is Dmitri Filippov, leikmaður rússneska landsliðsins (Icelandic) from January 21, 2000, accessed on March 28, 2014
2. ↑ www.thw-provinzial.de opponent squad HC Wuppertal 1997/98, accessed on March 28, 2014
3. ↑ www.thw-provinzial.de Nikolaj Jacobsen second in the Bundesliga shooting list from May 27, 2001, accessed on April 7, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.mz-web.de Interview with Dmitry Filippov from September 1, 2016, accessed on April 7, 2018
5. ↑ www.handball-world.com New task for Dimitri Filippov from June 28, 2011, accessed on March 28, 2014
6. ↑ www.supersonntag-web.de Dmitri Filippow carried an Olympic flame through Krasnodar on February 18, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2014