Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Poland v Russia - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 23, 2022 Poland's Michal Olejniczak in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Poland v Russia - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 23, 2022 Poland's Dawid Dawydzik in action with Russia's Aleksandr Ermakov and Pavel Andreev REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Poland v Russia - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 23, 2022 Poland's Szymon Sicko and Maciej Gebala in action with Russia's Sergei Mark Kosorotov, Pavel Andreev and Dmitrii Santalov REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Spain - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 21, 2022 Spain players celebrate as Russia's Pavel Andreev reacts REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Spain - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 21, 2022 Russia's Pavel Andreev in action REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Spain - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 21, 2022 Russia's Daniil Shishkarev speaks to Victor Kireev and Pavel Andreev during the match REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Spain - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 21, 2022 Spain's Jose Maria Marquez Coloma in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev and Dmitrii Santalov REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Spain - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 21, 2022 Spain's Antonio Jesus Garcia Robledo in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Sweden - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 20, 2022 Sweden's Fredric Pettersson in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Main Round - Russia v Sweden - Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia - January 20, 2022 Russia's Pavel Andreev scoring a goal REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa 

Handball - EHF 2022 Men's European Handball Championship - Group F - Russia v Lithuania - Steel Arena, Kosice, Slovakia - January 13, 2022 Russia's Pavel Andreev celebrates after the match with teammates REUTERS/David W Cerny 

Handball - 2021 IHF Handball World Championship - Main Round Group 4 - Russia v Sweden - Cairo Stadium Hall 1, Cairo, Egypt - January 24, 2021 Russia's Pavel Andreev in action Pool via REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Handball - 2021 IHF Handball World Championship - Main Round Group 4 - North Macedonia v Russia - Cairo Stadium Hall 1, Cairo, Egypt - January 22, 2021 North Macedonia's Darko Georgievski in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev Pool via REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

Handball - 2021 IHF Handball World Championship - Main Round Group 4 - Russia v Egypt - Cairo Stadium Hall 1, Cairo, Egypt - January 20, 2021 Egypt's Yahia Omar in action with Russia's Pavel Andreev Pool via REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany 

(L-R) Aliaksandr Parkhomenka of Belarus, Hans van Alphen of Belgium, David Gomez of Spain, Pavel Andreev of Uzbekistan , Qi Haifeng of China and Eugene Martineau of the Netherlands compete in their 100m heat of the men's decathlon in the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 21, 2008. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (CHINA)

Gold medallist Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Karpov (C) poses with silver medallist Uzbekistan's Vitaliy Smirnov (L) and Uzbekistan's Pavel Andreev after completing the 1500m race event of the men's decathlon during the 15th Asian Games in Doha December 11, 2006. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (QATAR) 

Uzbekistan's Pavel Andreev powders his discus with magnesia before competing in the discus throw event of the men's decathlon at the 15th Asian Games in Doha December 11, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed (QATAR) 

Uzbekistan's Pavel Andreev competes in the shot put event of the men's decathlon at the 15th Asian Games in Doha December 10, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed (QATAR) 

Andreev of Uzbekistan competes in pole vault in men's decathlon at Asian Athletics Championships in Inchon. Pavel Andreev of Uzbekistan competes in the pole vault event in the men's decathlon at the 16th Asian Athletics Championships in Inchon, South Korea, September 4, 2005. Andreev won the gold medal in the decathlon event. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon