Gleb Viktorovich Klimenko

Gleb Klimenko
Date of birth	July 28, 1983
place of birth	Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR
size	177 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	striker
number	# 83
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1998-1999	Severstal Cherepovets
1999-2000	SKA Saint Petersburg
2001-2002	HK Lipetsk
2002-2003	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Neftjanik Leninogorsk
2003-2007	HK Belgorod
2007-2009	Vityaz Chekhov
2009	Ak Bars Kazan
2009-2010	Vityaz Chekhov
2010-2011	SKA Saint Petersburg
2011	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2011-2013	SKA Saint Petersburg
2013	Severstal Cherepovets
2013-2014	HK Vitjas Podolsk
2014-2015	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
2015-2016	HK Spartak Moscow
2016	Amur Khabarovsk
since 2016	HK Nyoman Hrodna

Gleb Wiktorowitsch Klimenko ( Russian Глеб Викторович Клименко ; born July 28, 1983 in Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Nyoman Hrodna in the Belarusian extra league since November 2016 .

Career

Gleb Klimenko began his career as an ice hockey player in the third-class Pervaya League , in which he was active from 1998 to 2000 for the second representatives of Severstal Tscherepowez and SKA Saint Petersburg . He then made his debut in the second-rate Wysschaja Liga in the 2001/02 season for the professional team of HK Lipetsk . In the following season, the attacker stayed in the Wysschaja Liga, in which he ran up for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Neftjanik Leninogorsk . From 2003 to 2007 Klimenko was under contract with the second division club HK Belgorod . During this period he also ran for other teams again and again.

After he had also started the 2007/08 season at HK Belgorod, the Russian moved to Vitjas Chekhov in the Russian Super League , where he left the team again during the following season in the newly founded Continental Hockey League to work for their league rivals Ak Bars Kazan , with whom he became Russian champions for the first time in his career in the 2008/09 season . For the 2009/10 season he returned to Chekhov. From January 2010 he was again under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg . In January 2011 he moved within the KHL to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , with whom he was only defeated in the playoffs for the Gagarin Cup in the conference final. For the 2011/12 season he signed another contract with SKA Saint Petersburg.

In the middle of the 2012/13 season, Klimenko was initially loaned to Atlant Mytishchi , before he was given in May 2013 together with Sergei Monachow , the KHL rights to Sven Bärtschi and a compensation payment in exchange for Yevgeny Ketov to Severstal Cherepovets. He did not stay long at Severstal either, as he was exchanged for Pavel Chernov from HK Vitjas Podolsk in October 2013 . After the end of the 2013/14 season, he changed club again when he was committed by Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , but was transferred to Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg at the end of December of the same year . There he played until the end of the season before his KHL rights went to SKA Saint Petersburg , which the latter passed on to HK Spartak Moscow in July .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Gagarin Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan
• 2010 Spengler Cup win with the SKA Saint Petersburg
• 2011 KHL striker of the month March

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	126	41	35	76	120
Playoffs	3	43	11	6th	17th	20th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Gleb Klimenko at hockeydb.com (English)
• Gleb Klimenko at eliteprospects.com (English)