Andrey Lavrov

Andrey Lavrov

Lavrov in 2008
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1988 SeoulTeam
World Championships
Silver medal – second place1990 CzechoslovakiaTeam
Representing the  Unified Team
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaTeam
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneyTeam
Bronze medal – third place2004 AthensTeam
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1993 SwedenTeam
Gold medal – first place1997 JapanTeam
Silver medal – second place1999 EgyptTeam
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1996 SpainTeam
Silver medal – second place1994 PortugalTeam
Silver medal – second place2000 CroatiaTeam

Andrey Ivanovich Lavrov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Лавров; born March 26, 1962, in Krasnodar) is a Russian former handball goalkeeper and a three-time Olympic gold medalist.

Lavrov is also one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic gold medals for three different teams, clinching gold for the Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and for Russia in 2000. Four years later, at the age of 42, he won his fourth Olympic medal, another unique feat for a handball player, when his Russian team earned third place and the bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Lavrov was a long-time captain for the Russian handball team, and served as the flagbearer for the Russian athletes at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Summer Olympics.

Lavrov has also won two World Championships for Russia, in 1993 and in 1997, as well as the European Championship in 1996.

In 2001, Andrey Lavrov was voted "Russian handball player of the century" in his home country.

Post-playing career

After his playing career Lavrov has worked for the Russian Ministry of sports to promote handball, together with his friend and national team colleague Aleksandr Tuchkin.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jubiläum für Handball-Legende Alexander "Sascha" Tutschkin" (in German). Handball-World. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
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