Aleksandr Rymanov

Career He started playing handball aged 8 at CSKA Moscow. Here he won the Soviet Men's Handball Championship several times, as well as the 1986 EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the 1988 European Cup. After 21 years at the club he left for the German 2nd Bundesliga team OSC Rheinhausen. He helped them getting promoted to the handball-Bundesliga in 1993, but they were relegated just the season after. A year later he was promoted to head coach of the club, where he was until 1998.

He then held several different coaching positions in the German 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. In 2012 he became the assistant coach at the Russia men's national handball team. He left this position after the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

Titles Soviet Men's Handball Championship (6): 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987 Soviet Men's Handball Cup (3): 1984, 1985, 1986 EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1987 EHF Champions League: Winner: 1988 Finalist: 1983