Mikhail Yakimovich
Belarusian handball player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belarusian handball player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Mikhail Yakimovich (1992) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
January 13, 1967[1] Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left Backcourt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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–1992 | SKA Minsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1992–1999 | Teka Cantabria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1999–2004 | Portland San Antonio | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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]
