Magnitostroy (field hockey club)

1997-2004

It was formed in 1997 on the basis of the ISTC Diagnostics. The trainer is Victor Pianov. In 1997, she played in the first league of the Russian Championship (5th place), since 1998 she has been playing in the major league ^[1] (8th place). In 2001, she became fifth in this tournament ^[2] , a year later she took sixth place ^[3] .

2004-2005

In 2004, the team was renamed Magnitostroy ^[4] . At the 13th open championship of Russia, the Urals finished in the last, sixth position ^[5] . In 2005, they showed the same result ^[6] , having only 5 matches out of 15 ^[7] . In 2006, Magnitostroy ceased to exist ^[8] .

In January 2003, the forward “Diagnostics” Alexander Platonov, who played for this team in 2002, became the captain of Dynamo from Elektrostal ^[9] (then he was 28 years old). In 2006, in the semifinal of the Cup of Russia, he became the author of two goals scored against the teammates from Kazan. The match ended with a score of 4: 2 in favor of the team near Moscow. In the final, representatives of Elektrostal beat Dynamo the Builder from Yekaterinburg - 5: 2.

The striker became the owner of the country's cup twice more - in 2004 and 2007 . Also in 2010, Dynamo won the ECF Field Hockey Cup in Cardiff. Platonov repeatedly won the title of champion of Russia in field hockey and Indoor hockey (he has one and five titles, respectively), scored more than 500 goals in all-Russian competitions (for Dynamo - more than 200) and 98 - in international ^[10] . As part of the national team, he won gold at the 2008 Indoor Hockey European Championship in Yekaterinburg ^[11] , silver at a similar tournament in 2010 in Almera, Eurochallenge 2007 gold in field hockey in Kazan, bronze of the European Indoor Hockey Cup 2012 in Hamburg ^{[12] ]} , bronze Indore Hockey Eurochallenge 2011 in Lille (II Division). Hockey player is a master of sports of international class .