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Aleksandr Rymanov

Aleksandr Anatolevich Rymanov (, born August 25, 1959) is a former Soviet/Russian handball player, who won both Olympic and World Cup gold medals.

At the 1982 World Men's Handball Championship he won gold medals. In 1988 he won the Olympic gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored 18 goals.

Career

He started playing handball aged 8 at CSKA Moscow. Here he won the Soviet Men's Handball Championship several times, as well as the 1986 EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the 1988 European Cup. After 21 years at the club he left for the German 2nd Bundesliga team OSC Rheinhausen. He helped them getting promoted to the handball-Bundesliga in 1993, but they were relegated just the season after. He then retired and became the assistant coach at the club. A year later he was promoted to head coach of the club, where he was until 1998.

He then held several different coaching postions in the German 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. In 2012 he became the assistant coach at the Russia men's national handball team. He left this postion after the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

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