Nadezhda Muravyeva (born June 30, 1980 in Bratsk-Russia) is a Russia

Russia

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n team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team

Russia women's national handball team

The Russia women's national handball team is the national team of Russia. It is governed by the Handball Union of Russia and takes part in international team handball competitions...

. She won a gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship

2007 World Women's Handball Championship

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. At the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship

2008 European Women's Handball Championship

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in Macedonia she received a bronze medal, and was also named "Best Defence Player".

Life and career

Nadezhda Muravyeva is one of the most famous handball players in Russia and in the world. She started with gymnastics moving to handball later in her life. She started training handball at her age of 13, in Akwa Volgograd. Her first coach was Vladimir Fedorovic Civikov. She played for AKWA from 1996-2002. Then she left this team and went to Lada Togliatty.

Nadezhda has a rich handball career.

1998 - won bronze medal on European Junior Handball Championship in Slovakia

1998 - won bronze medal in Russian league

2000 - won bronze medal on European Handball Championship in Romania

2001 - Became World Champion in Italy'

1999, 2000, 2001 Russian Champion with the team of Akwa and in 2003, 2004, 2005 with LADA

2007 - won the silver medal with Lada in Russian Championship

2007 - Played with Lada in the final of the Champions League

2007- Again World Champion '

2009 - Once more WORLD CHAMPION

She is also Master of the Sport (this award she won for the great matches that she showed in 2001).

Currently she is an expert at the web-site
www.handball123.com