Yuri Nesterov
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Yuri Igorevich Nesterov ' onMouseout='HidePop("70585")' href="/topics/Saint_Petersburg">Leningrad
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player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics
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In 1988 he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored ten goals.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
) 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....
/Russian 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 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 1988 he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored ten goals.