Andrej Klimovets

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Andrej Klimovets
Klimovets in 2007
Personal information
Born August 18, 1974 (1974-08-18) (age 50)
Gomel, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality German, Bularussian
Height 197 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position Pivot
Senior clubs
Years Team
1984–1991
 SK Homel
1991-1995
 SKA Minsk
1995-1996
 TuS Spenge
1996-1997
 OSC Rheinhausen
1997-2005
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2005-2010
 Rhein-Neckar Löwen
2010-2011
 MT Melsungen
2011-2012
 TSG Haßloch
2012
 HSG Wetzlar
2012
 TGS Pforzheim
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
??-2005
 Belarus 101 (328)
2005-
 Germany 71 (169)
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing  Germany
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2007 Germany Team competition

Andrej Klimovets (Belarusian: Андрэй Клімавец, Andrej Klimavets; born August 18, 1974, in Gomel, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former Belarusian and from 2005 German team handball player. He played for both national teams. He is World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated on the German team that finished 4th at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.[1]

He competed for Germany in handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]

Career

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With SKA Minsk Klimovets won three Belarussian championships in a row from 1993 to 1995[3] and reached the final of the IHF Cup in 1992, where they lost to SG Wallau-Massenheim. His first German club was TuS Spenge in the Regionalliga, followed by OSC Rheinhausen and then SG Flensburg-Handewitt. With Flensburg-Handewitt he won the 2004 Bundesliga, the 2003 and 2005 DHB-Pokal, the 1999 Euro-City-Cup and the 2001 EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

In 2005 he left Flensburg for SG Kronau-Östringen (which became Rhein-Neckar Löwen in 2007).[3] In the 2010-11 season he played for MT Melsungen, and then joined TSG Haßloch for the first half of the 2011-12 season. The latter half he played for HSG Wetzlar. As he was still registrered for TSG Haßloch during his first match for HSG Wetzlar, he was banned for the rest of the season.[4] His last club was TGS Pforzheim in the Oberliga in Baden-Württemberg.[5]

International career

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Andrej Klimovets played 112 matches for the Belarusian national team.[6] At the 1994 European Championship he got an 8th place with the Belarus team, and at the 1995 World Championship he got a 9th place. After he arrived in Germany in 1996 he obtained German citizenship in 2005. His first match for the German national team was on 26 October 2005 against Croatia. At the 2006 European Championship he represented Germany at his first major international tournament, where Germany finished 5th.

At the 2007 World Championship he was injured during the warm-up to the match against Argentina, and was not able to play until the semifinal. The German coach Heiner Brand nominated Christian Schwarzer to replace him. He did however return and won gold medals with the German team, for which he was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt.[7]

At the 2008 European Championship he once again represented Germany. Here he met his former national team, Belarus, and even faced against his own brother Uladzimir Klimavets.[8] Germany finished 4th in the tournament, losing to France in the third place playoff 26-36.

Private

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His brother Uladzimir Klimavets is also a handball player, who has featured in the Belarus national team.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Germany" Archived 2008-02-05 at the Wayback Machine – European Handball Federation (2008) (Retrieved on February 6, 2008)
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrej Klimovets". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
  3. ^ a b "17 Andrej Klimovets" (in German). Rhein-Neckar Löwen. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  4. ^ "DHB-Bundesgericht erkennt Wetzlar Siegpunkte gegen Göppingen ab" (in German). Frankfurter Neue Presse. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Der bescheidene Weltmeister Andrej Klimovets" (in German). TGS Pforzheim. Archived from the original on 29 June 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  6. ^ handball.by Мужская национальная команда retrieved 5 April 2014
  7. ^ "Handball – WM: Merkel lädt Handball-Weltmeister ins Kanzleramt" (in German). focus.de. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  8. ^ a b Björn Pazen (9 April 2015). "Father vs son - only one will make it to Cologne". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
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