The coaching staff of the women’s national team of Russia headed by Lyudmila Bodniyeva defined the line-up for the coming training session. The national team will train in Novogorsk from March 1st till 8th.
The national team of Russia:
gk — Anastasia Lagina (Chernomorochka), Polina Markina (CSKA), Anastasia Lagina (Rostov-Don);
lw — Sofia Vasilyeva (CSKA), Kristina Kozhokar (Rostov-Don);
p — Ksenia Zakordonskaya (Zvezda), Anastasia Illarionova (CSKA);
rw — Oksana Bessalaya (Astrakhanochka), Valeria Sobkalo (CSKA);
lb — Varvara Semina (CSKA), Daria Statsenko (Rostov-Don), Polina Sharkova (Astrakhanochka);
cb — Daria Dmitrieva (Ferencvarosi TC, Hungary), Ekaterina Dolmatova (Chernomorochka), Ksenia Ilyina (Astrakhanochka);
rb — Anna Vyakhireva (Brest Bretagne Handball, France), Antonina Santalova (CSKA), Anna Shaposhnikova (Rostov-Don).
The upcoming training session of the women’s national team will be different from the previous ones. A gala match, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the triumphant victory of the national team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, will be a key event of early March. The event will be held on March 7 in Moscow at Dynamo arena (Vasilisa Kozhina str., 13). The training session of the national team will be in a regular mode. Concerning the line-up of the team, one debutant Oksana Bessalaya, who represents HC Astrakhanohka, was invited to the training session in March.

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