Mikhail Yakimovich

Mikhail Yakimovich

Personal information
Full name	Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich
Date of birth	(1967-12-12) December 12, 1967
Place of birth	Slutsk, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Left Backcourt
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
-1992	/ SKA Minsk
1992-1999	Teka Cantabria
1999-2004	Portland San Antonio
International career‡
	Soviet Union
1992	Unified Team
1992-	Belarus
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 2009 (UTC)

Mikhail Yakimovich

Medal record
Men's Handball
Olympic Games
Representing the  Unified Team
	1992 Barcelona	Team Competition
World Men's Handball Championship
Representing Soviet Union
	1990 Czechoslovakia	Team Competition

Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich (Belarusian: Міхаіл Іванавіч Якімовіч; Russian: Михаил Иванович Якимович, born December 12, 1967 in Slutsk) is a former Belarusian handball player.

Throughout his senior career, Yakimovich played for SKA Minsk in the Soviet Union/Belarus, and later for Teka Cantabria and Portland San Antonio in Spain. Besides numerous other achievements, he won the EHF Champions League with all the three teams. Currently he is one of the only three players to win the trophy with three different teams, the other two being Mateo Garralda and Jose Javier Hombrados from Spain.

In 1990 he won a silver medal on the World Championship as a member of the Soviet Union team. Two years later he won the gold medal on the 1992 Olympics with the Unified Team. After the Soviet Union was disbanded, he opted to play for the national team of his native Belarus. He participated on several tournaments with the Belarusian team, and although they never won any medals, he gained several individual recognitions, like coming in as the third best scorer overall on the 1995 World Championship.

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