Elena Anatolyevna Mikhaylichenko ( rus, Елена Анатольевна Михайличенко, , ɪ̯ɪˈlʲenə mʲɪxəɪ̯lʲɪˈtɕenkə; born 15 September 2001) 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

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and the Russian national handball team. Mikhaylichenko was top scorer for Russia at both Hungary 2018 (45 goals) and Poland 2018 (44), with almost all her goals scored from her preferred position of left back. In September 2018, she was included by EHF in a list of the twenty best young handballers to watch for the future.

Achievements

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

: **''Silver Medalist:'' 2020 *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* Youth World Championship: **''Gold 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 ...

Individual awards

* Most Valuable Player of the Youth World Championship:

* Most Valuable Player of the Junior European Championship:

References

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* 2001 births Living people Handball players from Tolyatti Russian female handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Olympic handball players for Russia 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-handball-bio-stub