Natalya Anisimova

Natalya Yuryevna Anisimova, née Guskova , born 16 November 1960, is a Russian former handball player who won gold medals at the 1982 World Championship, and competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She is considered one of the best Russian handballers of the 20th century.

Career Anisimova played for HC Kuban Krasnodar until 1992. Here she won the Soviet Union Women's Handball Championship in 1989 and the Russian Women's Handball Super League in 1992. She then joined ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica in Serbia and Montenegro, where she played until 1996.

National team In 1982 she won World Championship in Hungary.

In 1986 she won gold at the 1986 Goodwill Games.

In 1988 she won the bronze medal with the Soviet team. She played all five matches and scored 13 goals.

Four years later she was a member of the Unified Team which won the bronze medal. She played one match.