Daria Dmitrieva (handballer)

Daria Evgenyevna Dmitrieva (Дарья Евгеньевна Дмитриева; born 9 August 1995) is a Russian female handballer, who plays for RK Krim and Russian national team.

Biography
Daria's father is a former ice hockey player. She trained under Irina Kos at Lada Togliatti, but when the coach decided to leave, Dmitrieva and some of her teammates joined the other Russian handball center in Volgograd. Daria was a 14-year-old when she made that decision in 2009.

Dmitrieva and Anna Vyakhireva were considered the rising stars at the European Junior Championship.

Dmitrieva was voted world's second best young playmaker of the 2013/2014 season by the Handball-Planet.com fans, after Deborah Nunes.

In August 2021, she decided to take a break from her professional handball career, due to exhaustion.

She returned to her club, HBC CSKA Moscow after missing the first half of the season.

Achievements

 * Russian Super League:
 * Gold Medalist: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2023
 * Slovenian Championship
 * Gold Medalist: 2023


 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
 * Semifinalist: 2012
 * European Junior Championship:
 * Gold Medalist: 2013
 * World Youth Championship:
 * Silver Medalist: 2012
 * European Youth Championship:
 * Gold Medalist: 2011

Individual awards

 * All-Star Playmaker of the European Junior Championship: 2013
 * All-Star Centre Back of the Summer Olympics: 2016
 * Handball-Planet.com World Young Female Handball Player: 2014–15
 * Handball-Planet.com World Young Female Playmaker: 2014–15