Yelena Dmitriyeva

Yelena Viktorovna Dmitriyeva, née Chaplina (; born 1 July 1983 in Astrakhan) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won gold medals with the Russian winning teams in the 2007 and 2009 World Championships.

Career Dmitriyeva began playing handball aged 7. At the age of 15 she joined Kazahkstani team Qysylorda, where she won the Kazahkstani championship. In 2000 she joined Russian top league team Handball Club Lada, where she won the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Russian championships and the 2002 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. In her first season she won Russian championship and the EHF European League. The season after she won the EHF Champions League with the club, beating Austrian Hypo NÖ in the final. In 2009 she won the Russian Cup. She retired in 2013.

National team Dmitriyeva played for the Russian national team between 2001 and 2011. She won both the 2007 and 2009 World Championships with the team. At the 2008 Olympics she won a silver medal and at the 2008 European Championship she won a bronzemedal.