Valery Gopin | |
Nationality: | Russian |
Birth Date: | 8 May 1964 |
Birth Place: | Seltso, Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR |
Nationalteam1: | Soviet Union |
Nationalteam2: | Unified Team |
Nationalteam3: | Russia |
Valery Pavlovich Gopin (Russian: Валерий Павлович Гопин, born 8 May 1964) is a Russian handball player. He became Olympic champion in 1988 with the Soviet Union national handball team, and in 1992 with the Unified Team.[1] He became European champion with the Russia national handball team in 1996.