Aleksandr Karshakevich
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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Karshakevich ' onMouseout='HidePop("39268")' href="/topics/Hrodna_Voblast">Hrodna Voblast
) is a former Soviet
/Belarusian
handball
player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics
and in the 1988 Summer Olympics
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In 1980 he won the silver medal with the Soviet team. He played four matches including the final and scored 13 goals.
Eight years later he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played five matches including the final and scored twenty goals.
Hrodna Voblast
Hrodna Voblast or Grodno Oblast is a voblast in northwestern Belarus.The capital - Grodno is the biggest city of the province. It lies on the Neman River. Grodno's existence is attested to from 1127. Two castles dating from the 14th - 18th centuries are located here on the steep right bank of...
) is a former Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
/Belarusian
Byelorussian SSR
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
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 who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
and in the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...
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In 1980 he won the silver medal with the Soviet team. He played four matches including the final and scored 13 goals.
Eight years later he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played five matches including the final and scored twenty goals.