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

Mikhail Yakimovich
Personal information
Full name	Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich
Born	(1967-12-12) December 12, 1967 (age 54) Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 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
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union World Championships 1990 Czechoslovakia Team Representing the  Unified Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Team
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

External links

• Mikhail Yakimovich biography & statistics

На других языках

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- [en] Mikhail Yakimovich

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[fr] Mikhaïl Iakimovitch

Mikhaïl Ivanovitch Iakimovitch (en russe : Михаил Иванович Якимович, en anglais : Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich[3]), né le 12 décembre 1967 à Sloutsk (URSS, aujourd'hui Biélorussie), est un ancien joueur de handball soviétique puis biélorusse évoluant au poste d'arrière gauche.

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[ru] Якимович, Михаил Иванович

Михаил Иванович Якимович (белор. Міхаіл Іванавіч Якімовіч; род. 13 января 1967, Слуцк, Минская область) — советский и белорусский гандболист, левый полусредний. Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1992).

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