Andrey Lavrov

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Men’s Handball
Olympic medal record
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Gold	1988 Seoul	Handball
Competitor for Unified Team
Gold	1992 Barcelona	Handball
Competitor for Russia
Gold	2000 Sydney	Handball
Bronze	2004 Athens	Handball
World Championships
Competitor for Russia
Gold	1993 Sweden	Handball
Gold	1997 Japan	Handball
Silver	1999 Egypt	Handball
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Bronze	1990 Checoslovakia	Handball

Andrey Ivanovich Lavrov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Лавров) (born March 26, 1962 in Krasnodar) is a Russian (and former Soviet) handball goalkeeper and the only three times Olympic handball champion.

Lavrov is also the only athlete to have won Olympic gold medals for three different nation's teams, winning gold for Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and for Russia in 2000. Four years later, at the age of 42, he won his fourth olympic medal, another unique feat for a handball player, when his Russian team earned third place and the bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic games.

Lavrov was a long time captain for the Russian handball team, and he was Flag Bearer for the Russian athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Summer Olympics.

Lavrov has also won two World Championships for Russia, in 1993 and in 1997, as well as the European Championship in 1996.

In 2001, Andrey Lavrov was was voted "Russian handball player of the century" in his home country.