Irina Viktorovna Osipova (, born 25 June 1981) is a Russian

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player. Since 2002 she was part of the

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at most major international competitions. She won Olympic bronze medals in 2004 and 2008, placing fourth in 2012, and collected three gold and five silver medals at the world and European championships. She currently plays for

Dynamo Kursk WBC Dynamo Kursk () is a Russian professional women's basketball club from Kursk playing in the Russian Women's Basketball Premier League, Russian Premier League. They won their first EuroCup Women, FIBA Eurocup title in 2012. In the 2016–17 se ...

from

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. She is married and has a daughter Alyona.

Career

* 1997–2001 Gloria Moscow * 2001–2002

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* 2002–2004

UMMC Ekaterinburg BC Ekaterinburg () is a Russian professional women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League, and until February 2022 in FIBA Europe's EuroLeague Women. Founded in 1938 as Zenit Sverdlovsk, the club had its ...

* 2004 VBM-SGAU Samara * 2004–2005 Elitzur Ramla * 2005–2012

Spartak Moscow Region Women's Basketball Club Sparta&K is a professional women's basketball team based in Vidnoye, Russia that plays in FIBA’s EuroLeague Women. History It won the 2005–06 EuroCup Women and the 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 Euro ...

* 2012–2014

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* 2014 Good Angels Košice * 2014–2016

* 2017–2019

* 2006

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References

Living people 1981 births Russian women's basketball players Detroit Shock players Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in basketball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 21st-century Russian sportswomen Russian expatriate basketball people in the United States {{Russia-basketball-bio-stub