Vladimir Borisovich Below
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Vladimir Below |
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| Player information | |
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| Full name | Vladimir Borisovich Below |
| birthday | April 26, 1958 |
| place of birth | Kunzewo , Soviet Union |
| citizenship |
 Russian
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| date of death | November 14, 2016 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |
| height | 1.95 m |
| Playing position | Back center |
| Throwing hand | right |
| Clubs as active | |
| from ... to | society |
| 1974– |
 SK Kunzewo
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| National team | |
| Debut on | 1977 |
| Games (goals) | |
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Soviet Union
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162 (?) |
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As of July 5, 2014 |
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Wladimir Borissowitsch Below ( Russian Владимир Борисович Белов , born April 26, 1958 in Kunzewo , † November 14, 2016 in Moscow ) was a Soviet handball player .
Career
Wladimir Below started playing handball in Kunzewo at the age of 16. In 1976 and 1978 the 1.95 m tall middle back player with SK Kunzewo was third in the Soviet league.
With the Soviet junior selection, Below won the Junior World Championships in 1977 and 1979. Already at the World Cup in 1978 he was in the squad of the Soviet national team and won the silver medal behind Germany . He also had to be content with silver at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, this time the GDR's selection in the final was victorious. The playmaker scored 22 goals in six games, five of them in the final. Two years later, he crowned his career with the world title in Germany. He was fourth-best goalscorer with 39 goals and was named the most valuable player of the tournament. In total, he played 162 international matches .
literature
- "Ingenious clocks from the sixties to the noughties" in: Handball magazine, issue 6/2012
Web links
- Wladimir Borissowitsch Below in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Wladimir Borissowitsch Below in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Ball machine from Moscow at http://www.handball-world.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ fckuntsevo99.narod.ru Ручной мяч в Кунцево ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian) accessed on July 5, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Below, Vladimir Borisovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Belov, Vladimir Borisovich (English spelling); Белов, Владимир Борисович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet handball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kunzewo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2016 |
| Place of death | Moscow |