Yury Klimov
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Yury Mikhailovich Klimov (Template:Langx; 22 July 1940 – 17 October 2022) was a Soviet and Russian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Klimov was born in Ukhta on 22 July 1940.[1] He trained in Moscow and became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1973. Klimov played 173 matches for the USSR National Team.[2] At the 1972 Summer Olympics he was part of the Soviet team which finished fifth. He played all six matches and scored seven goals. Four years later he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored twelve goals. He coached from 1979,[1] and latterly served as the coach of the Iran men's national handball team. Klimov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1976.[2]
Klimov died on 17 October 2022, at the age of 82.[3]
Coaching career
- Iran men's national handball team (2006–08)
- Zob Ahan Esfahan (2009–20??)
References
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External links
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- 1940 births
- 2022 deaths
- Soviet male handball players
- Russian male handball players
- Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in handball
- People from Ukhta
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from the Komi Republic
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni
- Russian handball coaches
- Soviet handball coaches
- Expatriate handball coaches
- Soviet expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Iran
- Handball coaches of international teams
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen