Aleksey Rastvortsev

Aleksey Rastvortsev

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Personal information
Born	August 8, 1978 (1978-08-08) (age 45) Belgorod, Russia
Medal record Men's Handball Representing Russia Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team

Aleksey Petrovich Rastvortsev (Russian: Алексей Петрович Растворцев; born August 8, 1978) is a Russian handball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He currently plays for the Serbian champion, RK Vojvodina from Novi Sad.

He was born in Belgorod.

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.

On 6 December 2015 players and staff of RK Vojvodina were travelling with plane from Portugal, where RK Vojvodina had lost an 2015–16_EHF_Champions_League game against FC Porto (handball)), back to Serbia. When one of the passengers, 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.