Olga Akopyan
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Olga Akopyan | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born |
4 March 1985 Volgograd, RSFSR, USSR | (age 39)||
Nationality | Russian | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Retired | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
2002–2015 | Dinamo Volgograd | ||
2015–2016 | Lada Togliatti | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2016 | Russia | 133 | (367) |
Teams managed | |||
2019–2022 | CSKA Moscow (assistant) | ||
2021– | Russia (assistant) | ||
2022– | CSKA Moscow | ||
Olga Sergeyevna Akopyan (Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Акопян; née Levina on 4 March 1985) is a retired Russian handball player who last played for Lada Togliatti and the Russian national handball team. She won the world title in 2007 and 2009 and an Olympic gold medal in 2016, placing eighth in 2012.[1][2]
After the 2012 Olympics she married Eduard Akopyan, and in 2013 gave birth to a daughter Arina. She returned to training in November 2013.[1]
She is currently the head coach for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Super League and the assistant coach in the Russia women's national handball team.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Olga Akopian". nbcolympics.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Levina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019.
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olga Akopyan.
- Olga Akopian at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Olga Akopian at Olympics.com
- Olga Levina-Akopyan at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Russian female handball players
- Olympic handball players for Russia
- Olympic gold medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Handball players from Volgograd
- Russian handball biography stubs