{{short description|Russian handball player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Timur Dibirov | image = TimurDibirovVardar.jpg | caption = | full_name = Timur Magomedovich Dibirov | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|7|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Petrozavodsk, Russia | nationality = Russian Macedonian | height = 1.80 m | position = Left wing | currentclub = | clubnumber = | years1 = 2004–2013 | clubs1 = Chekhovskiye Medvedi | years2 = 2013–2022 | clubs2 = RK Vardar 1961 | years3 = 2022–2025 | clubs3 = RK Zagreb | nationalyears1 = 2006–2020 | nationalteam1 = Russia | nationalcaps1 = 215 | nationalgoals1 = 747 }} '''Timur Magomedovich Dibirov''' ({{langx|ru|Тимур Магомедович Дибиров}}; born 30 July 1983) is a Russian former handball player.<ref>[http://www.eurohandball.com/player/523016 EHF profile]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ihf.info/files/CompetitionData/153/pdf/RUS.pdf |title=2015 World Championship Roster |publisher=IHF |access-date=15 January 2015}}</ref>
He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where the Russian team placed sixth.<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/timur-dibirov-1.html |title=Timur Dibirov |access-date=29 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217074321/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/timur-dibirov-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 December 2012}}</ref>
Besides the Russian, Dibirov also holds Macedonian citizenship.
Dibirov is all-time top scorer for RK Vardar in the EHF Champions League having scored 525 goals as of 19 November 2020.
He was voted Best left wing of the season 2022/2023 for the EHF Excellence Awards.<ref name=Award>{{Cite web |title=Danish players snap up big awards |url=https://www.eurohandball.com/en/news/en/danish-players-snap-up-big-awards/ |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=EHF}}</ref>
== Personal life == Married to handball player Irina Poltoratskaya. They have two children — a son, Murad, and a daughter, Tiana.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-24 |title=Два капитана. Легенды российского гандбола — о свадьбе, детях и чужбине |url=https://life.ru/p/935137 |access-date=2025-08-14 |website=Life.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
==Honours== ;RK Vardar *Macedonian Handball Super League: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22 *Macedonian Handball Cup: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 *Macedonian Handball Super Cup: 2017, 2018, 2019 *SEHA League: 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *EHF Champions League: 2016–17, 2018–19
;RK Zagreb *Croatian Handball Premier League: 2022–23
;Individual honours * EHF Excellence Awards: Left Wing of the Season 2022/23<ref name=Award />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{European Handball Federation}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Olympics.com|timur-dibirov}} {{Navboxes |title=Russia squads | bg = #0000FF | fg = white |list1= {{Russia squad 2012 European Men's Handball Championship}} {{Russia squad 2015 World Men's Handball Championship}} {{Russia squad 2016 European Men's Handball Championship}} {{Russia squad 2017 World Men's Handball Championship}} {{Russia squad 2019 World Men's Handball Championship}} {{Russia squad 2020 European Men's Handball Championship}} }} {{SEHA League Finals MVP}}
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