Anna Sergeyevna Sen ( rus, Анна Сергеевна Сень, , ˈanːə ˈsʲenʲ; born 3 December 1990) is 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 for
Rostov-Don
Rostov-Don () is a professional female handball team from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Established in 1965, the club was called Rostselmash until 2002. Rostov-Don is competing in the Russian Super League. They have won the league seven times, in 1994, 2 ...
and the
Russian national team.
Career
Sen played until 2010 for
HC Kuban Krasnodar
HC Kuban Krasnodar is a Russian women's handball team from Krasnodar competing in the Russian Super League.
Kuban enjoyed its golden era in the late 1980s, winning two Cup Winners' Cups in 1987 and 1988 by beating TSC Berlin and Vasas Budapest ...
, where she joined league rivals
Zvezda Zvenigorod
Zvezda Zvenigorod (, lit. ''Star Zvenigorod'') is a Russian women's handball club from Zvenigorod, near Moscow. They won the Champions League and the Champions Trophy in 2008, and the EHF Cup in 2006/07. Between 2006 and 2011 the club was coac ...
. A year later she joined
Rostov-Don
Rostov-Don () is a professional female handball team from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Established in 1965, the club was called Rostselmash until 2002. Rostov-Don is competing in the Russian Super League. They have won the league seven times, in 1994, 2 ...
. In 2014-15 she moved to Hungarian handball and joined
Győri ETO KC
Győri ETO KC (, lit. Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr Handball Club) is a Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball club from Győr. Since they are sponsored by Audi, the official name for the team is Győri Audi ETO KC.
On dome ...
. She played a single season for the club, where she won the
Hungarian cup
The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...
.
In 2015 she returned to
Rostov-Don
Rostov-Don () is a professional female handball team from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Established in 1965, the club was called Rostselmash until 2002. Rostov-Don is competing in the Russian Super League. They have won the league seven times, in 1994, 2 ...
. Here she won the 2017
EHF European League
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and the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022
Russian championship.
National team
Sen has played over 150 matches for the
Russian national team.
With the Russian youth national team she won the
2008 Youth World Championship.
A year later she came third in the
2009 Junior European Championship, and was top scorer at the tournament. She also won silver medals at the
2010 U20 World Championship.
With the senior team she won gold medals at the
2016 Olympics
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.
Two years later she won silver medals at the
2018 European Championship, losing to France in the final.
At the
2019 World Championship she won bronze medals, beating Norway in the third place play-off. She scored 35 goals during the tournament.
A year later she won silver medals at the
2020 Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
, once again losing to France. Sen scored 8 goals during the tournament.
Achievements
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Olympic Games
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:
**''Gold Medalist'': 2016
**''Silver Medalist'': 2020
*
European Championship
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In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...
:
**''Silver Medalist'':
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
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Russian Super League
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**''Gold Medalist'': 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22
*Russian Super Cup:
**''Bronze Medalist'': 2017, 2018, 2019
*
EHF Champions League
The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...
:
**''Finalist'':
2018/2019
**''Fourth place'':
2017/2018
*
EHF Cup
The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...
:
**''Gold Medalist'':
2017
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Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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European Junior Championship:
**''Bronze Medalist'': 2009
*
Hungarian Cup
The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...
:
**''Winner'': 2015
References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
Handball players from Krasnodar
Russian female handball players
Győri Audi ETO KC players
Olympic medalists in handball
Olympic handball players for Russia
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Russian expatriate handball players
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes
21st-century Russian sportswomen