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Team roster

Chekhovskie Medvedi (RUS)

No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight 11 Pavel Andreev RUS Line Player 19.7.1992 Saint Petersburg, RUS 195 85

Sergei Bolotin RUS Centre Back 9.4.1996 Krasnoyarsk, RUS 181 78 Vladimir Borzykin RUS Right Back 2.2.1996 Chekhov, RUS 198 97

2 Ivan Busen RUS Left Back 12.4.1994 Kirov, RUS 197 93

10 Alexander Chernoivanov RUS Line Player 13.2.1979 Krasnodar, RUS 202 105 4 Victor Furtsev RUS Line Player 17.6.1996 Belgorod, RUS 200 100 Albert Gumarov RUS Left Wing 4.2.1998 Astrahan, RUS 181 74 23 Alexander Izmailov RUS Centre Back 30.10.1995 Astrakhan, RUS 185 85 Alexey Karibov RUS Right Back 3.5.1996 Astrahan, RUS 193 86 6 Dmitriy Kornev RUS Right Wing 16.6.1992 Vologda, RUS 186 75 17 Alexander Kotov RUS Right Back 11.7.1994 Volgograd, RUS 196 92 9 Kirill Kotov RUS Centre Back 23.5.1992 Moscow, RUS 185 75 7 Dmitry Kovalev RUS Left Wing 15.5.1982 Omsk, RUS 180 80 14 Maxim Kuretkov RUS Right Back 16.11.1994 Maykop, RUS 191 87 Timofei Maslennikov RUS Right Wing 10.3.1997 Chekhov, RUS 185 60 19 Roman Ostashchenko RUS Centre Back 26.9.1992 Moscow, RUS 184 83 26 Anton Otrezov RUS Centre Back 24.8.1988 Alma-Ata, KAZ 192 89 21 Ruslan Parshutin RUS Left Back 25.1.1991 Astrakhan, RUS 200 91 3 Dmitrii Santalov RUS Left Back 7.4.1996 Blagoveshensk, RUS 196 87 92 Dmitry Shelestyukov RUS Centre Back 29.7.1992 Volgograd, RUS 185 74 9 Oleg Skopintsev RUS Right Wing 15.4.1984 Krasnodar, RUS 184 80 Evgeny Trushin RUS Centre Back 24.11.1995 Krasnoyarsk, RUS 189 90 22 Roman Tsarapkin RUS Right Back 9.5.1995 Moscow, RUS 197 92 1 Oleg Grams RUS Goalkeeper 20.2.1984 Krasnodar, RUS 200 103 36 Artem Grushko RUS Goalkeeper 20.6.1993 Odessa, RUS 193 91 12 Dmitry Pavlenko RUS Goalkeeper 1.1.1991 Zaporoje, UKR 192 89 Mikhail Safronov RUS Goalkeeper 4.9.1995 Teuchejsk, RUS 198 97

Average: 23,11 191,3 86,4

Vladimir Maximov coach

• handball legend is still the only person who has become an Olympic champion both as a coach and as a player

• led the Russian national team to a number of big titles but resigned from that job in 2012 to fully concentrate on his club duties at Medvedi • joined the club in 2001 and has led the team to the title of the Russian champion every year since that time

• last season was no exception as Medvedi won the gold medals for the 14th consecutive time

EC trophy: Cup Winner’s Cup 2006

OG: G 1976 (as player), 2000, B 2004, WCh: G 1993, 1997, S 1978 (as player), 1999, EURO: G 1996, S 1994, 2000

Oleg Skopintsev left wing

• returned to Chekhov after the three-year break, during which he played at Dinamo Minsk and Motor Zaporozhye

• born in Krasnodar but moved to Chekhov at the age of 17

• played six years for the reserve team of Medvedi before becoming a regular player in the main squad

• the fast winger is technically gifted and frequently used in the 5:1 defence.

Oleg Grams goalkeeper

• born and raised in Krasnodar, the 31-year-old moved to Chekhov at a very young age

• has been a member of Medvedi since the club foundation in 2001

• during this time, he has become a 14-time Russian champion

• gained a lot of experience on the international stage, competing both for Medvedi and for the Russian national team at he EURO, WCh and the Olympics

EC trophy: Cup Winners’ Cup 2006

Dmitryi Shelestyukov left back

• born in Volgograd, he started his career at the local team Kaustik where he stayed until the summer of 2015

• having moved to Chekhov, already won the Russian Supercup with his new team and was actually the top scorer of Medvedi in that game against SKIF Krasnodar

• his ambition is to play for the Russia national team and eventually to become an Olympic champion

• his idol is Denmark’s star Mikkel Hansen

Anton Otrezov centre back

• Was born in Stavropol, a city in the south of Russia and started his career at the local team Dinamo-Viktor where he gradually became one of the key players

• moved to Chekhov in 2014 and the following year won the Russian league for the first time in his career

• was one of the leaders of the Russian team that took the sixth place at the Universiade in Gwangju, Korea this summer

Pavel Andreev line player

• born in St.Petersburg and started to play handball there

• joined Medvedi at the beginning of his career but needed some time to gain experience in the reserve team

• started to regularly play for the first team of Medvedi in the 2014/15 season and already won a number of trophies including Russian championship, Cup and Supercup

• already a member of the Russia national team

Alexander Chernoivanov line player

• veteran is currently the oldest player in the squad, and his rich experience is very helpful for his young teammates

• was born in Krasnodar and started his career at the local club SKIF

• joined Chekhov in 2004 but needed two years to move up from the reserve to the first team • nine-time Russian champion

EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2006

Alexander Kotov right back

• born in Volgograd and started his career at Kaustik

• moved to Chekhov together with his teammate from Kaustik Dmitri Shelestyukov • in the summer of 2015, he has played for the Russia U-21 team at the Junior WCh in Brazil • not a relative of his teammate Kirill Kotov

Dmitry Kovalev right wing

• captain of Medvedi and one of the key figures both on and off the court

• born in Omsk, he played a few seasons at Sungul Snezhinsk before moving to Chekhov in 2003 • last spring, he won the Russian league for the 12th consecutive time

• with the Russia national team he participated in a number of major international tournaments including the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

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