Yelena Polenova (handballer)
Russian handball player
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Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova (Russian: Елена Ильинична Полёнова) (born 20 August 1983 in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team.[2] She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France. She won a silver medal in the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden. At the 2008 Olympics she won silver medals with the Russian team.
Uralsk, Kazakh SSR
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| Born |
20 August 1983 Uralsk, Kazakh SSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000-2005 | Dinamo Volgograd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005-2010 | Zvezda Zvenigorod | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010-2011 | HC Astrakhanochka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011-2012 | Le Havre AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-? | Blanzat Sport Montluçon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
– | Russia | 106 | (392[1]) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
In 2005 she joined Dinamo Volgograd from Zvezda Zvenigorod. Here she won the 2007 Russian championship and EHF European League and the 2008 EHF Champions League.[3] In 2011-12 she played a single season at HC Astrakhanochka, before joining Le Havre AC in the French league.[1] After a year she joined Blanzat Sport Montluçon.[4]
