Mikhail Yakimovich

Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich (Belarusian: Міхаіл Іванавіч Якімовіч; Russian: Михаил Иванович Якимович, born December 12, 1967 in Slutsk) is a former Belarusian handball player.

Mikhail Yakimovich
Personal information
Full name Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich
Born (1967-12-12) December 12, 1967
Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 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
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of June 2009 (UTC)

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.[1]

References

  1. "Base d'informazión esportiva". Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
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