Liudmila Bodnieva (Russian

Russian language

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: Людмила Валериевна Бодниева, born on October 15, 1978 in Elista

Elista

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, Russia

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Russia

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n team handball

Team handball

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 player and world champion with the Russian women's national handball team

Russia women's national handball team

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. She plays for the club Krim Ljubljana

Krim Ljubljana

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. She is of Kalmyk ethnicity.

She won gold medal with the Russian winning team at the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship

2005 World Women's Handball Championship

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 in Saint Petersburg

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, Russia

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, and was selected into the championship's all-star team (as pivot).

She received a silver medal at the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship

2006 European Women's Handball Championship

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 in Sweden

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, and was voted into the all-star team (pivot). She was also in the all-star team at the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship

2004 European Women's Handball Championship

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, where the Russian team finished 4th.