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Yelena Polenova (handballer)

For the Russian painter, see Yelena Polenova.

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.

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Elena Polenova s'engage avec Le Havre" (in French). handzone.net. 29 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Oroszország" handball.hu – 2007 December 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on 20 December 2007)
  3. ^ Todor Krastev. "Women Handball European Champions Cup and Champions League Archive". Todor 66. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Hanball: Elena Polenova a signé au BSM" (in French). laMontagne.fr. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2019.