Anna Vyakhireva

Anna Viktorovna Vyakhireva (Анна Викторовна Вяхирева; born 13 March 1995) is a Russian female professional handballer, who plays for French club Brest Bretagne Handball and the Russian national team.

Biography
She started playing handball at her sister's training sessions at the age of six. Anna's older sister is Polina Kuznetsova, 2007 world champion and a member of the All-Star team at the 2012 European Women's Handball Championship. Her father, Victor Vyakhirev, was a women's handball coach, he in 2013 was on duty with the Zvezda Zvenigorod youth team.

Achievements

 * Olympic Games:
 * Gold Medalist: 2016
 * Silver Medalist: 2020
 * World Championship:
 * Bronze Medalist: 2019
 * European Championship:
 * Silver Medalist: 2018
 * Russian Super League
 * Gold Medalist: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 * Bronze Medalist: 2013, 2015
 * Russian Cup:
 * Winner: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 * Runner-up: 2016
 * Russian Supercup:
 * Winner: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 * Norwegian League:
 * Gold: 2022/2023, 2023/2024
 * Norwegian Cup:
 * Winner: 2022/23, 2023/24
 * EHF Champions League:
 * Winner: 2022/2023
 * Finalist: 2018/2019
 * Fourth place: 2017/2018
 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
 * Finalist: 2014
 * European Junior Championship:
 * Gold Medalist: 2013
 * World Youth Championship:
 * Silver Medalist: 2012
 * European Youth Championship:
 * Gold Medalist: 2011
 * Silver Medalist: 2009

Individual awards
MVP
 * Most Valuable Player of the Youth World Championship: 2012
 * Most Valuable Player of the European Junior Championship: 2013
 * Most Valuable Player of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016, 2019/2020
 * Most Valuable Player of the Summer Olympics: 2016, 2020
 * Most Valuabe Player of the European Championship: 2018
 * Most Valuabe Player of the EHF Champions League Final Four: 2023
 * Most Valuable Player of REMA 1000-ligaen: 2022/2023

All Star Team
 * All-Star Centre Back of the European Youth Championship: 2009
 * All-Star Right Wing of the European Youth Championship: 2011
 * All-Star Right Back of the Junior World Championship: 2012
 * All-Star Right Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2014
 * All-Star Right Back of the Russian Super League: 2015/2016, 2018/2019, 2019/2020
 * All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2019
 * All-Star Right Back of the Champions League: 2020
 * All-Star Right Back of the World Championship: 2019
 * All-Star Right Back of the Summer Olympics: 2020
 * All-Star Right Back of REMA 1000-ligaen: 2022/2023, 2023/2024

Other
 * Handball-Planet.com Young World Female Player of the Year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017
 * Handball-Planet.com All-Star Young Right Back of the year: 2015/2016, 2016/2017
 * Handball-Planet.com World Female Player of the Year: 2019
 * Handball-Planet.com All-Star Right Back of the Year: 2018, 2019
 * EHF player of the month (5): June 2018, October 2018, December 2018, September 2019, December 2019
 * REMA 1000-ligaen’s «public favorite»: 2022/2023
 * Topscorer of the EHF Champions League: 2023–24 (113 goals)