# Russia men's national handball team

The Russia national handball team (Russian: Сборная России по гандболу) is controlled by the Handball Federation of Russia. Russia is designates by IHF and EHF.

## History

Handball in Russia as one of the sports games appeared approx. in 1909. In the first period of its development the handball in Russia had two forms, 11 players form and 7 players form. In 1955 was set up the All-Union section (federation) of handball. By early 60s was finally approved a single form of handball game – 7 players form.

## Honours

| Competition | | | | Total |
| Olympic Games | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| World Championship | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| European Championship | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |

## Competitive record
### Summer Olympics

| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GS | GA |
| 1972 – 1988 | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union | As Soviet Union |
| 1992 | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team | As Unified Team |
| 1996 | Preliminary round | 5th | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 166 | 132 |
| 2000 | Champions | 1st | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 219 | 195 |
| 2004 | Third place | 3rd | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 214 | 216 |
| 2008 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 216 | 214 |
| 2012 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2016 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2020 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2024 | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned |
| Total | 4/7 | 1 Title | 30 | 18 | 1 | 11 | 815 | 757 |

### World Championship

| 1993 | Champions |
| 1995 | 5th place |
| 1997 | Champions |
| 1999 | Runners-up |
| 2001 | 6th place |
| 2003 | 5th place |
| 2005 | 8th place |
| 2007 | 6th place |
| 2009 | 16th place |
| 2011 | Did not qualify |
| 2013 | 7th place |
| 2015 | 19th place |
| 2017 | 12th place |
| 2019 | 14th place |
| 2021 | 14th place (played as RHF Team) |
| 2023 | Disqualified during qualification |
| 2025 | Banned |
| 2027 | TBD |
| 2029 | TBD |
| 2031 | TBD |

### European Championship

| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
| 1994 | Runners-up | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 172 | 148 |
| 1996 | Champions | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 172 | 141 |
| 1998 | Fourth place | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 179 | 167 |
| 2000 | Runners-up | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 189 | 175 |
| 2002 | 5th/6th place | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 197 | 172 |
| 2004 | 5th/6th place | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 206 | 190 |
| 2006 | 5th/6th place | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 208 | 204 |
| 2008 | Preliminary round | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 74 | 88 |
| 2010 | Main round | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 177 | 194 |
| 2012 | Preliminary round | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 89 |
| 2014 | Main round | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 168 | 179 |
| 2016 | Main round | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 160 | 161 |
| 2018 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2020 | Preliminary round | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 76 | 91 |
| 2022 | Main round | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 194 | 190 |
| 2024 | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification | Disqualified during qualification |
| 2026 | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned | Banned |
| 2028 | Future event | Future event | Future event | Future event | Future event | Future event | Future event | Future event |
| Total | 14/18 | 1 title | 83 | 42 | 8 | 33 | 2254 | 2189 |

## Team
### Current squad

Squad for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship.
* No.
* Pos.
* Name
* Date of birth (age)
* Height
* App.
* Goals
* Club
* 1
* GK
* Artyom Grushko
* (1993-06-20)20 June 1993 (aged 28)
* 1.93 m
* 2
* 0
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 3
* LB
* Dmitrii Santalov
* (1996-04-07)7 April 1996 (aged 25)
* 1.96 m
* 37
* 105
* Meshkov Brest
* 6
* RW
* Daniil Shishkaryov
* (1988-07-06)6 July 1988 (aged 33)
* 1.90 m
* 145
* 356
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 10
* CB
* Valentin Vorobev
* (1995-05-27)27 May 1995 (aged 26)
* 1.90 m
* 4
* 6
* CSKA Moscow
* 17
* RB
* Alexander Kotov
* (1994-07-11)11 July 1994 (aged 27)
* 1.98 m
* 41
* 49
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 20
* LB
* Mikhail Vinogradov
* (1997-04-04)4 April 1997 (aged 24)
* 1.94 m
* 10
* 6
* Bregenz Handball
* 23
* LW
* Roman Ostashchenko
* (1992-09-26)26 September 1992 (aged 29)
* 1.87 m
* 48
* 46
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 24
* RW
* Dmitry Kornev
* (1992-06-16)16 June 1992 (aged 29)
* 1.86 m
* 26
* 39
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 25
* LB
* Evgenij Dzemin
* (1997-08-30)30 August 1997 (aged 24)
* 2.07 m
* 0
* 0
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 30
* P
* Aleksandr Ermakov
* (1996-01-14)14 January 1996 (aged 25)
* 1.95 m
* 26
* 39
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 32
* GK
* Andrei Vereshchagin
* (1997-01-22)22 January 1997 (aged 24)
* 1.98 m
* 2
* 0
* Permskie Medvedi
* 44
* LW
* Igor Soroka
* (1991-05-27)27 May 1991 (aged 30)
* 1.80 m
* 74
* 211
* CSKA Moscow
* 76
* P
* Radomir Vrachevich
* (1999-05-19)19 May 1999 (aged 22)
* 1.96 m
* 0
* 0
* Dinamo Viktor Stavropol
* 78
* P
* Pavel Andreev
* (1992-07-19)19 July 1992 (aged 29)
* 1.97 m
* 28
* 59
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 87
* GK
* Viktor Kireyev
* (1987-05-05)5 May 1987 (aged 34)
* 1.90 m
* 89
* 1
* CSKA Moscow
* 89
* CB
* Dmitry Zhitnikov
* (1989-11-20)20 November 1989 (aged 32)
* 1.97 m
* 147
* 383
* Orlen Wisła Płock
* 98
* RB
* Nikita Kamenev
* (1998-04-14)14 April 1998 (aged 23)
* 1.98 m
* 2
* 4
* Chekhovskiye Medvedi
* 99
* LB
* Sergei Kosorotov
* (1999-06-16)16 June 1999 (aged 22)
* 2.00 m
* 43
* 118
* Orlen Wisła Płock

### Coaching staff

| HUR Management Personnel: | Andrey Lavrov |
| Head Coach: | Velimir Petković |
| Coaches: | Valentin Buzmakov / Mikhail Izmailov |
| Videooperator: | Andrei Seregin |

### Notable players

* Andrey Lavrov
* Talant Dujshebaev
* Pavel Sukosyan
* Vyacheslav Gorpishin
* Eduard Koksharov
* Vasily Kudinov
* Dmitry Filippov
* Denis Krivoshlykov
* Serguei Pogorelov
* Dmitri Torgovanov
* Aleksandr Tuchkin
* Stanislav Kulinchenko
* Valeri Gopin
* Oleg Kisselev
* Alexey Kamanin
* Alexey Kostygov
* Alexander Chernoivanov
* Vitaly Ivanov
* Vasily Filippov
* Lev Voronin
* Vyacheslav Atavin
* Oleg Grebnev
* Pavel Bashkin

### Statistics
#### Most capped players

| Player | Games | Position |
| Andrey Lavrov | 320 | GK |
| Vyacheslav Atavin | 288 | OB |
| Vyacheslav Gorpishin | 270 | ? |
| Alexey Rastvortsev | 251 | OB |
| Vitali Ivanov | 236 | CB |
| Eduard Koksharov | 226 | W |
| Dmitri Torgovanov | 219 | P |
| Dmitry Kovalyov | 213 | W |
| Timur Dibirov | 212 | W |
| Mikhail Chipurin | 208 | P |
| Vasily Kudinov | 196 | OB |
| Sergey Pogorelov | 194 | OB |
| Dmitry Filippov | 160+ | CB, W |
| Denis Krivoshlykov | 158 | W |
| Oleg Grams | 150 | GK |
| Pavel Sukosyan | 145 | GK |
| Talant Duyshebaev | 140 | CB |
| Egor Evdokimov | 132 | P |
| Alexey Kostygov | 131 | GK |
| Stanislav Kulinchenko | 125 | CB |
| Daniil Shishkarev | 122 | W |
| Dmitry Zhitnikov | 119 | CB |
| Alexander Chernoivanov | 116 | P |
| Samvel Aslanyan | 111 | OB |
| Konstantin Igropulo | 110 | OB |
| Pavel Atman | 107 | CB |
| Vasily Filippov | 101 | CB |
| Valery Gopin | 100+ | W |
| Oleg Kiselyov | 100+ | CB, OB |
| Oleg Grebnev | 100+ | P |

#### Top scorers

| Player | Goals | Average | Position |
| Eduard Koksharov | 1110 | 4.91 | W |
| Alexey Rastvortsev | 898 | 3.58 | OB |
| Talant Duyshebaev | 726+ | | CB |
| Dmitri Torgovanov | 689 | 3.15 | P |
| Vyacheslav Atavin | 600+ | | OB |
| Timur Dibirov | 600 | | W |
| Vitali Ivanov | 522 | 2.21 | CB |
| Konstantin Igropulo | 505 | | OB |
| Mikhail Chipurin | 505 | | P |
| Denis Krivoshlykov | 448 | 2.84 | W |
| Sergey Pogorelov | 446 | 2.30 | OB |
| Dmitry Kovalyov | 439 | | W |
| Vasily Kudinov | 300+ | | OB |
| Dmitry Filippov | 300+ | | CB, W |
| Aleksandr Tuchkin | 299 | 3.25 | OB |