Igor Viktorovich Lavrov

Igor Lavrov

Player information
Full name	Igor Viktorovich Lavrov
birthday	4th June 1973
place of birth	Stavropol , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	1.86 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1981-1988	Bolshevinsk Stavropol
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1988-1991	Bolshevinsk Stavropol
1991-1992	GK Kaustik Volgograd
1992-1998	CSKA Moscow
1998–12 / 2001	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
12 / 2001-2005	SG Wallau / Massenheim
2005-2007	HSV Hamburg
National team
	Games (goals)
Russia	165 (?)
Status: national team January 31, 2008

Igor Viktorovich Lavrov ( Russian И́гор Ви́кторович Лавро́в , scientific transliteration Igor Viktorovič Lavrov ; born June 4, 1973 in Stavropol , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian handball player . His body length is 1.86 m.

Lavrov, who last played for the German club HSV Hamburg (shirt number 22) and previously played for the Russian men's national handball team, was mostly used in the center of the back .

Igor Lavrov started playing handball in his hometown. There he was trained by his father Viktor. At the age of 15 he made his debut in the first team of Stavropol, which was then playing in the second Soviet division. At the age of 18 he moved to the first division to the neighboring GK Kaustik Volgograd , where he a. a. played together with Oleg Kuleschow . After only one year he moved on to the capital club CSKA Moscow , where he succeeded Talant Dujshebaev . With Moscow he won the Russian championship in 1994 and 1995.

In 1998 Lavrov came into contact with the German SG Flensburg-Handewitt through Wolfgang Gütschow, the manager of the Russian national team at the time , which Lavrov signed. With the Fördestädtern he won the European City Cup in 1999 and the DHB Supercup in 2000 . When Lavrow slipped behind Christian Berge and the newly signed Joachim Boldsen at the end of 2001 in the playmaker position only for the third election, he moved on to SG Wallau / Massenheim - again on the initiative of Wolfgang Gütschow . There he won no further titles, but rose to become the leading player in the “Junge Wilde” group of Pascal Hens , Dominik Klein and Gregor Werum . When Wallau / Massenheim, however, did not receive a gaming license for the 2005/06 season and the forced relegation to the regional league followed, Lavrov went to HSV Hamburg . There he was only used sporadically behind Guillaume Gille , but won the DHB Cup again in 2006 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 2007 . In 2007 Lavrov ended his career and returned to his Russian homeland.

Igor Lavrov has played 165 international matches for the Russian men's national handball team. With the Russian men's national handball team he was European champion in 1996, world champion in 1997 and Olympic champion in 2000 . At the men's handball world championship in 1999 and at the European handball championship in 2000 , he won silver .

Web links

• Portrait of Igor Lavrov ( Memento from July 16, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lavrov in the Flensburg squad
2. ^ Lavrov in the Wallau / Massenheim squad
3. ^ Lavrov in the Hamburg squad