Yelena Viktorovna Dmitriyeva, née Chaplina (; born 1 July 1983 in
Astrakhan
Astrakhan (, ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression, from the Caspian Se ...
) is a Russian
team 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 Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...
player, playing on the
Russian women's national handball team.
["Oroszország"]
''handball.hu'' – 2007 december 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on December 20, 2007) She won gold medals with the Russian winning teams in the
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
and
2009 World Championships.
Career
Dmitriyeva began playing handball aged 7. At the age of 15 she joined Kazahkstani team Qysylorda, where she won the Kazahkstani championship. In 2000 she joined Russian top league team
Handball Club Lada
Handball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League.
Founded in 1998, Lada became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one ...
, where she won the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Russian championships and the 2002
EHF Cup Winners' Cup
The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...
.
In 2004 she joined
ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
ŽRK Budućnost is a professional women's handball team from Podgorica, Montenegro (previously, the club also appeared under the names ZRK Budućnost MONET, Budućnost Brillant, Budućnost Bemax and Budućnost Titograd). Among the numerous title ...
in Serbia-Montenegro, where she won the 2005 and 2006 championships and the 2006
EHF Cup Winners' Cup
The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...
.
In March 2007 she returned to Russia to play the rest of the 2006-07 season at
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 ...
. In her first season she won Russian championship and the
EHF European League
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 ...
. The season after she won the
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 ...
with the club, beating Austrian
Hypo NÖ in the final.
In 2009 she won the Russian Cup. She retired in 2013.
National team
Dmitriyeva played for the
Russian national team between 2001 and 2011. She won both the
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
and
2009 World Championships with the team. At the
2008 Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...
she won a silver medal and at the
2008 European Championship she won a bronzemedal.
References
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1983 births
Living people
Handball players from Astrakhan
Russian female handball players
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Russia
Olympic silver medalists for Russia
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Montenegro
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate handball players in Montenegro
Russian expatriate handball players
21st-century Russian sportswomen