Natascha Rusnachenko

Natascha Rusnachenko

Player information
birthday	May 13, 1969
place of birth	Tiraspol , Soviet Union
citizenship	Austria
height	187 cm
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	Right
Club information
society	Career ended
Jersey number	12
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000–198?	Spartak Kiev
198? -1989	WAT five house
1989-2001	Hypo Lower Austria
2001–01 / 2007	McDonald's Wiener Neustadt
01 / 2007-2008	Hypo Lower Austria
National team
Debut on	1986
	Games (goals)
Soviet Union  Austria	~ 100 (0) 252 (7)
As of July 1, 2009

Natascha Rusnachenko (born May 13, 1969 in Tiraspol , Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a handball goalkeeper from the Soviet Union who is now an Austrian citizen.

Natascha Rusnachenko grew up in simple circumstances in the USSR (in today's Moldova ). With the national team of the USSR she won the handball junior world championship twice and a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.

In the early 1990s she changed her citizenship and moved to Bad Vöslau with her husband . She then played for the Austrian clubs Hypo Niederösterreich , McDonald's Wiener Neustadt and WAT Fünfhaus . In 2008 Natascha Rusnachenko ended her career.

Today Natascha Rusnachenko works as a supervisor at the sports boarding school in Südstadt. Occasionally she also played in the Handball League Austria for Hypo Niederösterreich. Rusnachenko was last used on May 23, 2009 in the WHA championship final between Hypo and Hypo 2 for a few minutes.

She has two sons and now lives in Sooss near Vienna.

successes

• 1988: Olympic bronze medal with the Soviet Union
• 1987 & 1989: Junior World Champion with the Soviet Union
• 2 × Champions League winner with Spartak Kiev
• 7 × Champions League winner with Hypo Niederösterreich (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000)

Web links

• European Cup statistics from Rusnachenko
• Natascha Rusnachenko: Tiraspol, Chernobyl, Südstadt. The standard of January 30, 2017.