Vadim Rifel is a professional hockey player from Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

. He's played internationally with the Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team 8 times in the IIHF world hockey championships. He currently plays for Kazzinc Torpedo-2 Ust-Kamenogorsk in the country's second highest hockey league (after the Kazakhstani Championship

Kazakhstani Championship

The Kazakhstani Championship is the name of the top tier of professional ice hockey in Kazakhstan.There are 2 Hockey teams in Kazakhstan competing outside of this championship: Barys Astana competing in the KHL and Kaztsink-Torpedo in the Russian Major League. Their farm/second teams compete in...

), Kazakhstan Vyschaya Liga

Kazakhstan Vyschaya Liga

Kazakhstan Vyschaya Liga is a professional hockey league based in Kazakhstan. It was established when the country gained independence in 1992 and it is the second highest league in the country, after the Kazakhstani Championship...

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For the 2010-2011 season he was voted as the best player on his team by local fans.

He previously played 4 seasons with EHC Wolfe Freiburg in Germany.