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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Krasnodar
- Occupation
- statesperson
- Employer
- Federation Council
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 1988 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- handball
- Member of team
- US Ivry Handball
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Mass
- 94
- Image
- Andrey Lavrov.jpg
- Height
- 198
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- date of birth
- 1962-03-26
- name in native language
- Лавров
- member of
- Federation Council
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- Andrey Lavrov
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrey Ivanovich Lavrov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Лавров; born March 26, 1962, in Krasnodar) is a Russian former handball goalkeeper and a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
Lavrov is also one of only a few athletes to have won Olympic gold medals for three different teams, clinching gold for the Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and for Russia in 2000. Four years later, at the age of 42, he won his fourth Olympic medal, another unique feat for a handball player, when his Russian team earned third place and the bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrey Lavrov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.