Daria Dmitrieva (handballer)

Daria Evgenyevna Dmitrieva (Russian: Дарья Евгеньевна Дмитриева; born 9 August 1995) is a Russian female handballer, who plays for RK Krim and Russian national team.^[1][2]

Daria Dmitrieva
Personal information
Full name	Daria Evgenyevna Dmitrieva
Born	(1995-08-09) 9 August 1995 (age 29) Tolyatti, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	RK Krim
Number	11
Youth career
Years	Team
0000–2009	Lada Togliatti
2009–2015	Dinamo Volgograd
2015	Lada Togliatti
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2011–2015	Dinamo Volgograd
2015–2019	Lada Togliatti
2019–2022	HBC CSKA Moscow
2022–2024	RK Krim
2024–	Ferencvárosi TC
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2021	Russia	104	(352)
Medal record Representing  ROC Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team European Championship 2018 France Team IHF Junior World Championship 2014 Croatia Team World Youth Championship 2012 Montenegro Team European Junior Championship 2013 Denmark Team European Youth Championship 2011 Czech Republic Team

Biography

Daria's father is a former ice hockey player. She trained under Irina Kos at Lada Togliatti, but when the coach decided to leave, Dmitrieva and some of her teammates joined the other Russian handball center in Volgograd. Daria was a 14-year-old when she made that decision in 2009.^[3]

Dmitrieva and Anna Vyakhireva were considered the rising stars at the European Junior Championship.^[3]

Dmitrieva was voted world's second best young playmaker of the 2013/2014 season by the Handball-Planet.com fans, after Deborah Nunes.^[4]

In August 2021, she decided to take a break from her professional handball career, due to exhaustion.^[5]

She returned to her club, HBC CSKA Moscow after missing the first half of the season.^[6]

Achievements

• Russian Super League:
  • Gold Medalist: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2023
• Slovenian Championship

Gold Medalist: 2023

• EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
  • Semifinalist: 2012
• European Junior Championship:
  • Gold Medalist: 2013
• World Youth Championship:
  • Silver Medalist: 2012
• European Youth Championship:
  • Gold Medalist: 2011

Individual awards

• All-Star Playmaker of the European Junior Championship: 2013
• All-Star Centre Back of the Summer Olympics: 2016^[7]
• Handball-Planet.com World Young Female Handball Player: 2014–15^[8]
• Handball-Planet.com World Young Female Playmaker: 2014–15^[9]

References

1. "Profile Daria Dmitrieva". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
2. "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
3. "The rising stars of the Women's EHF EURO: Anna Vyakhireva and Daria Dmitrieva". European Handball Federation. 1 August 2013. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
4. "World Best Young Female Playmaker 2013/2014". Handball-Planet. 22 May 2014.
5. ""HANDBALL EARTHQUAKE": Vyakhireva and Dmitrieva to stop career". handball-planet.com. 10 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
6. "ODENSE AND CSKA SHARE SPOILS IN DENMARK". European Handball Federation. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
7. "Women's All-star Team". International Handball Federation. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
8. "Daria Dmitrieva is the World Young Female Handball Player 2014/2015!". Handball-Planet. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
9. "WORLD YOUNG HANDBALL FEMALE ALL STAR TEAM 2014/2015". Handball-Planet. Retrieved 11 January 2017.

External links

• Daria Dmitrieva at the International Handball Federation
• Daria Dmitrieva at the European Handball Federation
• Daria Dmitrieva at Olympics.com
• Darya Dmitriyeva at Olympedia