Timur Dibirov
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| Full name | Timur Magomedovich Dibirov | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 July 1983 Petrozavodsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Handball | ||||||||||||
| Position | Left wing | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2013 | Chekhovskiye Medvedi | ||||||||||||
| 2013–2022 | RK Vardar 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 2022–2025 | RK Zagreb | ||||||||||||
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Timur Magomedovich Dibirov (Russian: Тимур Магомедович Дибиров; born 30 July 1983) is a Russian former handball player.[1][2]
He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where the Russian team placed sixth.[3]
Besides the Russian, Dibirov also holds Macedonian citizenship.
Dibirov is all-time top scorer for RK Vardar in the EHF Champions League having scored 525 goals as of 19 November 2020.
He was voted Best left wing of the season 2022/2023 for the EHF Excellence Awards.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Married to handball player Irina Poltoratskaya. They have two children — a son, Murad, and a daughter, Tiana.[5]
Honours
[edit]- RK Vardar
- Macedonian Handball Super League: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
- Macedonian Handball Cup: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
- Macedonian Handball Super Cup: 2017, 2018, 2019
- SEHA League: 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
- EHF Champions League: 2016–17, 2018–19
- RK Zagreb
- Croatian Handball Premier League: 2022–23
- Individual honours
- EHF Excellence Awards: Left Wing of the Season 2022/23[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ EHF profile
- ↑ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Timur Dibirov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- 1 2 "Danish players snap up big awards". EHF. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ "Два капитана. Легенды российского гандбола — о свадьбе, детях и чужбине". Life.ru (in Russian). 24 November 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
External links
[edit]- Timur Dibirov at the European Handball Federation
- Timur Dibirov at Olympedia
- Timur Dibirov at Olympics.com
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