Aleksey Rastvortsev

Aleksey Rastvortsev is a Russian handball player, born on 8 August 1978, who represented Russia at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in Athens in 2004, playing all eight matches and scoring 40 goals, and finished sixth four years later. He played 251 matches for the Russian national team and scored over 900 goals. His clubs included Neva in Saint Petersburg, Energiya Voronezh, Chekhovskiye Medvedi, Vardar in Skopje and Vojvodina in Novi Sad, and with Chekhovskiye Medvedi he was Russian champion ten times between 2003 and 2013. He ended his playing career in 2016 and became deputy sports director at Vardar, which won the EHF Champions League in 2017. In 2015 he helped overpower a passenger who tried to break into an aircraft cockpit.