Leonīds Beresņevs

Leonīds Beresņevs (Russian: Леони́д Арка́дьевич Бе́реснев, Leonid Arkadyevich Beresnev; born 6 July 1958)[1] is a Latvian/Soviet former ice hockey player and coach.

Leonīds Beresņevs
Born (1958-07-06) July 6, 1958
Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Position Defence
Played for Traktor Chelyabinsk
Dinamo Riga
Izhstal Izhevsk
Latvijas Zelts Riga
HK Nik's Brih Riga
HK Lido Nafta Riga
Playing career 19771997

Born in Kirov Oblast he is a coach of the Latvian U-20 junior team.

His first term of coaching the Latvian national team was from 1996 till 1999. In the 1996 world championships, when Latvia was playing in division B, they won and for the first time were promoted to division A where they finished at 7th place in 1997. From that time they have remained in division A.

Beresņevs' second term started in 2004 and ended in 2006. In 2005 Latvia qualified for Torino Olympics where they took the last place.

Beresņevs has been a coach for almost all the best Latvian ice hockey clubs since 1995. In 1996/1997 his coached Juniors Riga took gold at EEHL. In 2003/2004 Beresņevs was head coach in Russian Hockey Super League team Amur Khabarovsk. In 2007-08 he trained Estonian ice hockey club Tartu Big Diamonds and in 2008-09 he became the coach of Latvian club ASK/Ogre.

Career statistics (as a player)

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1985-86 Dinamo Rīga Russian Hockey Super League 19 1 0 1 8 -- -- -- -- --
1986-87 Dinamo Rīga Russian Hockey Super League 37 0 1 1 26 -- -- -- -- --
1987-88 Izhstal Izhevsk Russian Hockey Super League 26 3 2 5 8 -- -- -- -- --
1990-91 Dinamo Rīga EEHL Div. B 43 0 1 1 20 -- -- -- -- --
1992-93 Latvijas Zelts Rīga Latvian hockey league 22 6 35 41 22 -- -- -- -- --
1993-94 Latvijas Zelts Rīga Latvian hockey league 15 6 19 25 20 -- -- -- -- --
1994-95 HK Nik's Brih Riga Latvian hockey league 12 1 6 7 8 -- -- -- -- --
1996-97 HK Lido Nafta Riga Latvian hockey league 15 2 4 6 12 -- -- -- -- --

References

Preceded by
Ēvalds Grabovskis
Curt Lindström
Aleksandrs Beļavskis
Latvian national ice hockey team coach
1996–1999
2004–2006
2016
Succeeded by
Haralds Vasiļjevs
Pyotr Vorobyov
Haralds Vasiļjevs
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