Igor Lavrov
Status: National January 31, 2008
Igor Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian Игор Викторович Лавров, scientific transliteration Igor Lavrov Viktorovič; born June 4, 1973 in Stavropol, Soviet Union ) is a Russian handball player. Its body length is 1.86 m.
Lavrov, the last for the German club HSV Hamburg ( shirt number 22) played and earlier aground for the Russian men's national handball team, was mostly used on the rear center of the room.
Igor Lavrov began in his hometown with the handball game. There he was trained by his father Victor. At 15 he made his debut in the first team of Stavropol, which was playing in the second Soviet league. At age 18, he moved to the first division of the adjacent club caustic Volgograd, where he played among others with Oleg Kuleshov. After only a year he moved on to the capital club CSKA Moscow, where he became the successor of Talant Dujshebaev. With Moscow he won in 1994 and 1995, the Russian Championship.
In 1998, Lavrov about Wolfgang Gütschow, the then manager of the Russian national team, in contact with the German SG Flensburg- Handewitt that Lavrov took them under contract. With the promotion townspeople he won the 1999 European City Cup and the 2000 DHB Supercup. As Lavrov but slipped the end of 2001 behind Christian mountains and the newly obligated Joachim Boldsen only the third choice on the playmaker position, he moved - again on the initiative of Wolfgang Gütschow - proceed to SG Wallau mass home. There he won though no tracks, but rose to the leading players of the " Junge Wilde " by Pascal Hens, Dominik Klein and Gregory Werum on. As Wallau mass home but no game license for the 2005/ 06 season and won the relegation followed in the regional league, Lavrov went to HSV Hamburg. There he was indeed behind Guillaume Gille only sporadically used, but won again in 2006 the DHB Cup and the 2007 European Cup Winners' Cup. 2007 ended Lavrov his career and returned to his native Russia.
Igor Lavrov has previously denied 165 caps for the Russian men's national handball team. With the Russian men's national handball team in 1996 he became European champion, 1997 World champion and 2000 Olympic gold medalist. In the Men's Handball World Championship for Men 1999 and at the European Handball Championships 2000, he won silver.