Mariya Igorevna Sidorova (; born 21 November 1979) 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, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won the gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2007 World Championship. She is currently the Team Leader of the Russia women's national team.

Career

Sidorova started playing handball at the

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

club Veshnyaki. In 2001 she joined Lada Togliatti She played for 11 years in Lada Togliatti, where she won the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 Russian championships, before moving to

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 Summer 2012. Here she won the Russian cup in 2014. In 2015 she retired from handball.

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* 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Balashikha Russian female handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{Russia-handball-bio-stub