Anna Vyakhireva
Anna Viktorovna Vyakhireva is a Russian female handballer for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.Biography
She started playing handball at her sister's training sessions at the age of six. Anna's older sister is Polina Kuznetsova, 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
- World Championship:
- *Bronze Medalist: 2019
- European Championship:
- *Silver Medalist: 2018
- Russian Super League
- *Gold Medalist: 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020
- Russian Championship:
- *Bronze Medalist: 2013
- EHF Champions League:
- *Finalist: 2018/2019
- *Fourth place: 2017/2018
- 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
- All-Star Right Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2014
- 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
- Most Valuabe Player of the European Championship: 2018
- All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2019
- All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2020
- All-Star Right Back of the World Championship: 2019
- Handball-Planet.com All-Star Right Back of the Year: 2018, 2019
- Handball-Planet.com World Female Player of the Year: 2019
- Handball-Planet.com All-Star Young Right Back of the year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017
- Handball-Planet.com Young World Female Player of the Year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017
