Mikhail Yakimovich
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![]() Mikhail Yakimovich (1992) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
[1] Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | January 13, 1967||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Left Backcourt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
–1992 | SKA Minsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1992–1999 | Teka Cantabria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1999–2004 | Portland San Antonio | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National team 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1992 | Unified Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1992–1995 | Belarus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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1 National team caps and goals correct as of June 2009 (UTC) |
Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich (Belarusian: Міхаіл Іванавіч Якімовіч; Russian: Михаил Иванович Якимович, born January 13, 1967) is a former Belarusian handball player. Throughout his senior career, Yakimovich played for SKA Minsk in the Soviet Union/Belarus, and later for Teka Cantabria and Portland San Antonio in Spain. Besides numerous other achievements, he won the EHF Champions League with all the three teams.
In 1990 he won a silver medal on the World Championship as a member of the Soviet Union team. Two years later he won the gold medal on the 1992 Olympics with the Unified Team. After the Soviet Union was disbanded, he opted to play for the national team of his native Belarus. He participated on several tournaments with the Belarusian team, and although they never won any medals, he gained several individual recognitions, like coming in as the third best scorer overall on the 1995 World Championship.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Biography of Mikhail Yakimovich (in Russian)
- ^ "Base d'informazión esportiva". Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
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- Living people
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- Soviet male handball players
- Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team
- Liga ASOBAL players
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Sportspeople from Minsk Region
- Belarusian expatriate handball players
- Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
- Goodwill Games medalists in handball
- Goodwill Games gold medalists
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Expatriate handball players in Spain
- Belarusian handball biography stubs