Aleksey Rastvortsev


Aleksey Petrovich Rastvortsev is a Russian handball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He played for the Russian National Handball Team 251 match and scored over 900 goals. In his career he played for HC Neva, HC Energija, HC Chekhovskie Medvedi, RK Vardar and RK Vojvodina. He finished his active sports career in 2016 and since then he is deputy sport director in RK Vardar; they won the EHF Champions League in 2017.

Career

In 2004 he was a member of the Russian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches and scored 40 goals. Four years later he finished sixth with the Russian team in the 2008 Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches again and scored 25 goals.
Aleksey has finished Faculty for Physical Education in 2001 and is pronounced Honorary Master of Sport of Russia in 2004.

Incident

On 6 December 2015 players and staff of RK Vojvodina were travelling by plane from Portugal, where RK Vojvodina had lost an EHF Champions League game against FC Porto, back to Serbia. When one of the passengers, a Jordanian citizen with an American passport, tried to break into the plane's cockpit, he was tackled by Rastvortsev and Milan Mirković, club's assistant coach. The passenger stayed calm for the rest of the flight, but he was observed by the player and the coach.