The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 420 Handball Players, 1 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 41st most number of Handball Players behind China, and Uzbekistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Yelena Polenova (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 37.66, Yelena Polenova is the most famous Kazakhstani Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova (Russian: Елена Ильинична Полёнова) (born 20 August 1983 in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France. She won a silver medal in the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden. At the 2008 Olympics she won silver medals with the Russian team.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kazakhstani handball players born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kazakhstani handball players include Yelena Polenova. As of April 2024, 1 new Kazakhstani handball players have been added to Pantheon including Yelena Polenova.
