Yelena Polenova (handballer)

Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova
Personal information
Born (1983-08-20) 20 August 1983
Uralsk, Kazakh SSR
Nationality Russian
Height 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Retired
Senior clubs
Years Team
2000-2005
Dinamo Volgograd
2005-2010
Zvezda Zvenigorod
2010-2011
HC Astrakhanochka
2011-2012
Le Havre AC
2012-?
Blanzat Sport Montluçon
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Russia 106 (392)
Medal record
Representing  Russia
Women's handball
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Team
World Championship
2005 Russia Team
2007 France Team
European Championship
2006 Sweden Team
2008 Macedonia Team

Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova (Russian: Елена Ильинична Полёнова) (born 20 August 1983 in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France. She won a silver medal in the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden. At the 2008 Olympics she won silver medals with the Russian team.