Mikhail Anatolyevich Vasilyev (; 4 March 1961 – 25 February 2025) was a Russian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who competed for the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

in the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

. In 1988, he won the gold medal with the Soviet team where he played all six matches and scored five goals. On 5 March 2025, it was announced that Vasilyev had died at the age of 64.Не стало Михаила Васильева...

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1961 births 2025 deaths Soviet male handball players Russian male handball players Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in handball Handball players from Moscow Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Friendship Games medalists in handball Soviet expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Soviet expatriate sportspeople in Germany Russian expatriate handball players in Germany Russian emigrants to Germany Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub