Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova

Polina Kuznetsova

Polina Kuznetsova (2016)
Player information
Full name	Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova
birthday	10th June 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Schopokow , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russia
height	1.70 m
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	GK Rostov-on-Don
Jersey number	88
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2002-2003	Akwa Volgograd
2003-2004	GK Rostov-on-Don
2004-2007	GK Lada Tolyatti
2007-2014	Zvezda Zvenigorod
2014-2016	GK Astrakhanochka
2016-2017	GK Kuban Krasnodar
2017-2018	ŽRK Vardar SCBT
2018–	GK Rostov-on-Don
National team
	Games (goals)
Russia	147 (397)
As of November 30, 2019

Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova , b. Wjachirewa ( Russian Полина Викторовна Кузнецова (Вяхирева) , English Polina Kuznetsova (née Vyakhireva) ; born June 10, 1987 in Schopokow , Kirghiz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian handball player .

Career

Kuznetsova ran in the 2002/03 season for Akwa Volgograd and in the following season for GK Rostov-on-Don . From 2004, the outside player was under contract with GK Lada Tolyatti . With Lada, she won the Russian championship in 2005 and 2006. In February 2007, Kuznetsova moved to Zvezda Zvenigorod , with whom she won the Russian Championship in 2007, the Russian Cup in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014, the EHF Cup in 2007 and the EHF Champions League in 2008. In 2014 she joined GK Astrakhanochka . With Astrakhanochka, she won the Russian championship in 2016. She then moved to GK Kuban Krasnodar . Kuznetsova joined the Macedonian first division club ŽRK Vardar SCBT in the summer of 2017 . With Vardar, she won the Macedonian Championship and the Macedonian Cup in 2018. Then she returned to GK Rostov-on-Don. With Rostov she won the Russian championship in 2019 and 2020.

Kuznetsova is a member of the Russian national team . With Russia, she won the World Cup in her own country in 2005 and in France in 2007 , and in 2007 she was also elected to the Allstar team. In 2006 in Sweden and in 2018 in France, she won the European runner-up. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the 2019 World Cup , she won the bronze medal with the Russian selection.

Private

Her younger sister Anna Vyachirewa also plays handball and is a member of the national team.

Web links

Commons : Polina Kuznetsova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Polina Kuznetsova in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Polina Viktorovna Kuznetsova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Player portrait by Polina Kuznetsova

Individual evidence

1. ↑ japanhandball2019.com: ロ シ ア , accessed November 30, 2019
2. ↑ handball.vaz.ru: Вяхирева Полина Викторовна ( Memento from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2016
3. ↑ eurohandball.com: EHF profile season 2006/07 , accessed on August 8, 2016
4. ↑ xn - 80aaaa3crhmik9a1a.xn - p1ai: Трансферная политика ГК "Астраханочка" , accessed on August 8, 2016
5. ↑ championat.com: Калинина, Жилинскайте и Кузнецова перешли из "Астраханочки" в "Кубань" , accessed September 7, 2016
6. ↑ handball-planet.com: ZRK Vardar sign Polina Kuznetsova , accessed on June 29, 2017
7. ↑ rushandball.ru: Полина Кузнецова воссоединится с Анной Вяхиревой в "Ростов-Доне" , accessed on June 28, 2018
8. ↑ handball-world.com: Grit Jurack elected to the All-Star-Team , accessed on August 8, 2016
9. ↑ eurohandball.com: Statistics EM 2006 , accessed on August 8, 2016
10. ↑ eurohandball.com: Statistics EM 2018 , accessed on December 18, 2018
11. ↑ handball-world.news: Russia secures bronze medal at Handball World Cup with victory over Norway , accessed on December 25, 2019
12. ↑ www.eurohandball.com: The rising stars of the Women's EHF EURO: Anna Vyakhireva and Daria Dmitrieva , accessed on August 8, 2016