Leonīds Beresņevs

Leonīds Beresņevs
Born (1958-07-06) July 6, 1958
Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov Oblast, Russian SSR,
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

Leonīds Beresņevs (born 6 July 1958)[1] is a Latvian former ice hockey player, who played in defence.

Born in Kirov Oblast he is 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 were playing in division B, they won it and first time were promoted to division A where they were at 7th place in 1997. From that time they have remained in that division.

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

Beresņevs has been coach for almoust all the best Latvian icehockey 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 -- -- -- -- --

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Preceded by
Ēvalds Grabovskis
Latvian national ice hockey team coach
1996 1999
Succeeded by
Haralds Vasiļjevs
Preceded by
Curt Lindström
Latvian national ice hockey team coach
2004 2006
Succeeded by
Pjotrs Vorobjovs
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