Anna Viktorovna Vyakhireva (; born 13 March 1995) is a Russian female handballer, who plays for Vipers Kristiansand and the Russian national team. Biography She started playing handball at her sister's training sessions at the age of six. Anna's older sister is Polina Kuznetsova, 2007 world champion and a member of the All-Star team at the 2012 European Women's Handball Championship. Her father, Victor Vyakhirev, was a women's handball coach, he in 2013 was on duty with the Zvezda Zvenigorod youth team. Achievements Olympic Games: Gold Medalist: 2016 Silver Medalist: 2020 World Championship: Bronze Medalist: 2019 European Championship: Silver Medalist: 2018 Russian Super League Gold Medalist: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Bronze Medalist: 2013, 2015 Russian Cup: Winner: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Runner-up: 2016 Russian Supercup: Winner: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Norwegian Cup: Winner: 2022/23 EHF Champions League: Finalist: 2018/2019 Fourth place: 2017/2018 EHF Cup Winners' Cup: Finalist: 2014 European Junior Championship: Gold Medalist: 2013 World Youth Championship: Silver Medalist: 2012 European Youth Championship: Gold Medalist: 2011 Silver Medalist: 2009 Individual awards MVP Most Valuable Player of the Youth World Championship: 2012 Most Valuable Player of the European Junior Championship: 2013 Most Valuable Player of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016, 2019/2020 Most Valuable Player of the Summer Olympics: 2016, 2020 Most Valuabe Player of the European Championship: 2018 All Star Team All-Star Centre Back of the European Youth Championship: 2009 All-Star Right Wing of the European Youth Championship: 2011 All-Star Right Back of the Junior World Championship: 2012 All-Star Right Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2014 All-Star Right Back of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2019 All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2020 All-Star Right Back of the World Championship: 2019 All-Star Right Back of the Summer Olympics: 2020 Other EHF player of the month (5): June 2018, October 2018, December 2018, September 2019, December 2019 Handball-Planet.com All-Star Right Back of the Year: 2018, 2019 Handball-Planet.com World Female Player of the Year: 2019 Handball-Planet.com All-Star Young Right Back of the year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017 Handball-Planet.com Young World Female Player of the Year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017 References External links 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Volgograd Russian female handball players Olympic medalists in handball Olympic handball players of Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in