Mikhail Yakimovich
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mikhail Ivanovich Yakimovich | ||
| Date of birth | December 12, 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Slutsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left Backcourt | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1992 |
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| 1992–1999 |
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| 1999–2004 |
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| National team‡ | |||
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| 1992 | Unified Team | ||
| 1992– |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 2009 (UTC) | |||
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Handball | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
Representing the  | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1992 Barcelona | Team Competition |
| World Men's Handball Championship | ||
| Representing | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 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.
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.[1]
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