Vasily Alexandrovich Kudinov

Vasily Kudinov

Player information
Full name	Vasily Alexandrovich Kudinov
birthday	17th February 1969
place of birth	Ilyinka , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
date of death	February 11, 2017
Place of death	Astrakhan , Russia
height	1.95 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1987-1992	Dinamo Astrakhan
1992-1997	US Ivry HB
1997-2000	VfL Hameln
2000-2001	SC Magdeburg
2001-2004	Honda Suzuka
2004-2005	Dinamo Astrakhan
National team
Debut on	1990
	Games (goals)
Soviet Union United Team Russia	at least 196
As of January 19, 2014

Vasily Alexandrowitsch Kudinow ( Russian Василий Александрович Кудинов ; born February 17, 1969 in Ilyinka , Soviet Union ; † February 11, 2017 in Astrakhan , Russia ) was a Russian handball player . He was twice Olympic champion, once with the Russian national team and once with the United Team . Kudinow died six days before his 48th birthday.

society

The 1.95 m tall and 100 kg heavy half-left backcourt player began playing handball in his home near Dinamo Astrakhan , where he became the Soviet champion in 1990. In 1992 he moved to France to US Ivry HB , with whom he became French cup winner in 1996 and champion in 1997. In 1997 the right-hander went to the German handball league for VfL Hameln . In 2000 he signed with SC Magdeburg , with which he became German champion. After only one season he moved to the Japanese club Honda Suzuka before he went back to Astrakhan in 2004, where he once again reached the semifinals of the EHF Cup at the end of his career .

National team

Kudinow won the U-21 World Cup in 1989 with the Soviet junior selection . In 1990 he made his debut for the Soviet national team . With the United Team of the successor states of the Soviet Union, he won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. With the Russian national team he was world champion in 1993 and 1997 and vice world champion in 1999 , European champion in 1996, European vice champion in 1994 and third in 2000 . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he won his second gold medal, and in 2004 in Athens again bronze. In 1996 in Atlanta, he was only fifth.

He was the top scorer of the European Championship in 1994 and was there in the All-Star Team and at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999.

His son Sergei is also a Russian national handball player.

Web links

• Wassili Kudinow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Скорбим… Василий Александрович Кудинов …… Report of death on the website of the handball club "Sarja Kaspija" (Заря Каспия), February 11, 2017, accessed on February 12, 2017 (Russian).
   Двукратный олимпийский чемпион по гандболу Кудинов скончался на 48-м году жизни . tass.ru , February 11, 2017, accessed February 12, 2017 (Russian).
2. ^ Opponent squad VfL / BHW Hameln 1996/97 . THW Kiel website , June 30, 2008, accessed on February 12, 2017.
3. ↑ SC Magdeburg loses left back space. netzeitung.de , January 5, 2001, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on February 12, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Essen follows Magdeburg in the EHF Cup final . SID message on RP ONline , April 9, 2005, accessed February 12, 2017.
5. ↑ handball-world.com: SC Magdeburg today with a minute's silence: Obituary for double Olympic winner Wassili Kudinow . , accessed February 15, 2017.