Vasily Kudinov

As of January 19, 2014

Vasily Alexandrovich Kudinov (Russian Василий Александрович Кудинов; born February 17, 1969 in Iljinka, Soviet Union ) is a former Russian handball player and two -time Olympic champion with the Russian national team.

Association

The 1.95 m and 100 kg half left back player began with the Handball Game in his home at Dinamo Astrakhan, where he was in 1990 Soviet masters. In 1992 he moved to France to U.S. Ivry HB, 1996, he was with the French Cup winner and 1997 champion. In 1997, the right-handed went to the German handball Bundesliga VfL Hameln. In 2000 he signed with SC Magdeburg, with whom he became German champion. After just one season, he joined the Japanese club Honda Suzuka, before he went back in 2004 to Astrakhan, where he once again reached the semi-finals of the EHF Cup at the end of his career.

National

Kudinov debuted in the Soviet national team in 1990. The United team of the successor states of the Soviet Union, he won at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 the gold medal. With the Russian national team, he was in 1993 and 1997 world champion and 1999 Vice World Champion, 1996 European Champion, 1994 European Vice-Champion and 2000 third. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he won his second gold medal in Athens in 2004 again bronze. 1996 Atlanta he was only fifth.

He was top scorer in the European Championship in 1994 and was standing there in the All- Star team as well as at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999.

His son Sergei is also Russian handball player.