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Nationality
  
Russian

Current club
  
HC Astrakhanochka

Height
  
1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)

Number
  
13

Playing position
  
Right wing

Name
  
Anna Vyakhireva

Nickname
  
Anya


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Born
  
13 March 1995 (age 29) Volgograd, Russia (
1995-03-13
)

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Anna Viktorovna Vyakhireva (Russian: Анна Викторовна Вяхирева; born 13 March 1995) is a Russian female handballer for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.

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Biography

She started playing handball at her sister's training sessions at the age of six. Anna's older sister is Polina Kuznetcova, 2007 world champion and a member of the All-Star team at the 2012 European Women's Handball Championship. Her father, Victor Vyakhirev, is a women's handball coach, he's on duty with the Zvezda Zvenigorod youth team.

Achievements

  • Olympic Games:
  • Gold Medalist: 2016
  • Russian Super League
  • Gold Medalist: 2015/2016
  • Russian Championship:
  • Bronze Medalist: 2013
  • EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
  • Finalist: 2014
  • European Junior Championship:
  • Gold Medalist: 2013
  • World Youth Championship:
  • Silver Medalist: 2012
  • European Youth Championship:
  • Gold Medalist: 2011
  • Silver Medalist: 2009

    • Individual awards

  • All-Star Centre Back of the European Youth Championship: 2009
  • All-Star Right Wing of the European Youth Championship: 2011
  • All-Star Right Back of the Junior World Championship: 2012
  • Most Valuable Player of the Youth World Championship: 2012
  • Most Valuable Player of the European Junior Championship: 2013
  • Team of the Tournament Right Back of the Baia Mare Champions Trophy: 2014
  • All-Star Right Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2014
  • All-Star Right Wing of Møbelringen Cup 2015
  • All-Star Right Back of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016
  • Most Valuable Player of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016
  • Most Valuable Player of the Summer Olympics: 2016

    • References

    Anna Vyakhireva Wikipedia
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