Ekaterina Vladimirovna Galkina (Russian: Екатери́на Влади́мировна Га́лкина; born 10 August 1988 in Moscow) is a Russian curler.

Ekaterina Galkina
Екатерина Галкина
 
Born (1988-08-10) 10 August 1988 (age 35)
Team
Curling clubMoskvitch CC,
Moscow, RUS
SkipAnna Sidorova
ThirdMargarita Fomina
SecondAlexandra Saitova
LeadEkaterina Galkina
AlternateNkeirouka Ezekh
Curling career
Member Association Russia
World Championship
appearances
10 (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
European Championship
appearances
10 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Olympic
appearances
3 (2006, 2010, 2014)
Other appearancesWinter Universiade: 5 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015),
World Junior Championships: 8 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Medal record
Curling
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Saint John
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Sapporo
Winter Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2013 Trentino
Gold medal – first place 2015 Granada
Silver medal – second place 2007 Torino
Silver medal – second place 2011 Erzurum
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Harbin
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Jeonju
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Basel
Gold medal – first place 2012 Karlstadt
Silver medal – second place 2014 Champéry
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Moscow
European Junior Challenge
Gold medal – first place 2005 Copenhagen
Russian Women's Curling Championships[1]
Gold medal – first place 2006 Moscow
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tver/Dmitrov
Gold medal – first place 2013 Dmitrov
Gold medal – first place 2015 Sochi
Gold medal – first place 2016 Sochi
Silver medal – second place 2007 Moscow
Silver medal – second place 2008 Moscow
Silver medal – second place 2009 Moscow
Silver medal – second place 2010 Dmitrov
Silver medal – second place 2012 Dmitrov
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sochi

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, she was part of Ludmila Privivkova's team. A year later this team won the 2006 European Curling Championships.

She has studied Management and International Relations at the Russian State University for the Humanities.[2]

In January 2010 Galkina was officially named to the Russian Olympic Team.[3] She and her teammates represented Russia at the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, from 15 to 23 March. The team had an 8-3 record in the round robin and was seeded third in the playoffs. Team Russia lost the 3-4 Page playoff game to Team Korea, but later defeated Team Korea to win the bronze medal. It was the first medal for Russia in the world women's curling championships. The team also competed for Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi, Russia, and finished in ninth place.[4]

Galkina is a five-time Russian women's champion curler.[5] She played on many international events as a member of national or club teams.[6]

Currently she works as an Executive Board member for Russian Curling Federation[7] and time to time served as a curling color commentator for Match TV (Russian federal sports television channel) and Russian Curling TV[8] YouTube channel.

Teams edit

Women's edit

Season[6] Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2002–03 Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Ilona Grichina Olga Volochova Olga Andrianova,
Anna Andrianova
WJCC 2003 (9th)
2003–04 Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Margarita Fomina Olga Arbuzova Ekaterina Galkina Olga Andrianova WJCC 2004 (10th)
2004–05 Olga Jarkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Yana Nekrasova Ekaterina Galkina Liudmila Privivkova Olga Andrianova ECC 2004 (4th)
Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Angela Tuvaeva Nkeiruka Ezekh Olga Andrianova,
Yory Andrianov
EJCC 2005  
Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Angela Tuvaeva Olga Andrianova WJCC 2005 (5th)
Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Yana Nekrasova Ekaterina Galkina Olga Jarkova Olga Andrianova WCC 2005 (5th)
2005–06 Ludmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Olga Jarkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova,
Yory Andrianov
ECC 2005 (8th)
Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Angela Tuvaeva Daria Kozlova Olga Andrianova WJCC 2006  
Ludmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Olga Jarkova Ekaterina Galkina Yana Nekrasova Olga Andrianova,
Yory Andrianov
WOG 2006 (5th)
2006–07 Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Julia Svetova Olga Andrianova WUG 2007  
Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Angela Tuvaeva Daria Kozlova Olga Andrianova WJCC 2007 (7th)
Liudmila Privivkova Olga Jarkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova ECC 2006  
WCC 2007 (10th)
2007–08 Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Julia Svetova Daria Kozlova Olga Andrianova WJCC 2008 (4th)
Liudmila Privivkova Olga Jarkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova ECC 2007 (5th)
WCC 2008 (8th)
2008–09 Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Antonova Olga Andrianova WUG 2009  
Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Anna Sidorova Daria Kozlova Galina Arsenkina Olga Andrianova WJCC 2009 (4th)
Liudmila Privivkova Olga Jarkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova ECC 2008 (7th)
WCC 2009 (7th)
Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Antonova RWCCup 2008  
RWCCh 2009  
2009–10 Liudmila Privivkova Olga Jarkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Anna Sidorova Olga Andrianova ECC 2009 (4th)
Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Galina Arsenkina Ekaterina Antonova Olga Andrianova WJCC 2010 (5th)
Liudmila Privivkova[9] Anna Sidorova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova WOG 2010 (9th)
WCC 2010 (8th)
Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Antonova Nadezhda Lepezina Liudmila Privivkova RWCCup 2009 (5th)
RWCCh 2010  
2010–11 Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Antonova Ekaterina Galkina Liudmila Privivkova Olga Andrianova WUG 2011  
Liudmila Privivkova Anna Sidorova Nkeiruka Ezekh Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Olga Andrianova ECC 2010 (4th)
Liudmila Privivkova Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Nkeiruka Ezekh Olga Andrianova WCC 2011 (6th)[10]
Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Antonova Ekaterina Galkina Anastasia Prokofieva (RWCCh) RWCCup 2010  
RWCCh 2011  
2011–12 Anna Sidorova Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Nkeiruka Ezekh Olga Andrianova ECC 2011  
WCC 2012 (9th)
Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Antonova RWCCup 2011  
RWCCh 2012  
2012–13 Anna Sidorova Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Nkeiruka Ezekh Thomas Lips,
Svetlana Kalalb (ECC)
ECC 2012  
WCC 2013 (6th)
Liudmila Privivkova Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Antonova Anastasia Beginina RWCCh 2013  
2013–14 Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Aleksandra Saitova Ekaterina Galkina Viktoria Moiseeva Thomas Lips WUG 2013  
Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Aleksandra Saitova Ekaterina Galkina Nkeiruka Ezekh Thomas Lips ECC 2013 (5th)
WOG 2014 (9th)
WCC 2014  
Liudmila Privivkova Ekaterina Galkina Margarita Fomina Ekaterina Antonova Valeria Shelkova RWCCh 2014  
2014–15 Anna Sidorova Margarita Fomina Aleksandra Saitova Ekaterina Galkina Viktoria Moiseeva (WUG)
Nkeiruka Ezekh (ECC, WCC)
Svetlana Kalalb,
Rodger Gustaf Schmidt (WCC)
ECC 2014  
WUG 2015  
WCC 2015  
2018–19 Ekaterina Galkina Ekaterina Antonova Anna Antonyuk Anastasia Skultan Rimma Shayafetdinova RWCCup 2018  
RWCCh 2019 (7th)

Mixed edit

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Events
2007–08 Artyom Bolduzev Ekaterina Galkina Alexey Stukalskiy Ekaterina Antonova Vadim Raev,
Olga Zyablikova
RMxCC 2008  
2008–09 Alexander Kirikov Margarita Fomina Roman Kutuzov Ekaterina Galkina RMxCC 2009  
2009–10 Roman Kutuzov Ekaterina Galkina Aleksandr Kozyrev Ekaterina Antonova RMxCC 2010 (10th)
2010–11 Roman Kutuzov Ekaterina Galkina Vadim Raev Alina Biktimirova RMxCC 2011 (???th)[11]
2011–12 Roman Kutuzov Nkeirouka Ezekh Vadim Raev Ekaterina Galkina Sergey Manulychev,
Tatiana Makeeva
RMxCC 2012  [12]

References edit

  1. ^ List of women's champions and medallists look at ru:Список призёров чемпионата России по кёрлингу среди женщин(in Russian)
  2. ^ "Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics - results & video highlights". 2019-06-19. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  3. ^ "Teams for Vancouver 2010". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on 2010-04-28.
  4. ^ Ekaterina GALKINA | Curling | Russian Fed. - Sochi 2014 Olympics
  5. ^ История | Керлинг в России (CurlingRussia) Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine(in Russian) (History of Curling in Russia; look at "РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ЧЕМПИОНАТОВ РОССИИ ПО КЕРЛИНГУ (ЖЕНЩИНЫ)" – Results of Women's Championships)
  6. ^ a b Ekaterina Galkina's past teams
  7. ^ "Структура Федерации (Federation structure)". Russian Curling Federation (in Russian). Archived from the original on June 1, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2022. ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ДИРЕКЦИЯ ... Спортивный менеджер: Галкина Екатерина Владимировна
  8. ^ Russian Curling TV
  9. ^ On WWCC 2010 Anna Sidorova replaced Liudmila Privivkova as skip after Draw 2. Privivkova became the alternate, while Margarita Fomina replaced Sidorova in the third position.
  10. ^ Line-up as in WCF database
  11. ^ ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ ПО КЁРЛИНГУ | Спорткомитет Дмитров Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine(in Russian)
  12. ^ "Чемпионат России по кёрлингу среди смешанных команд 2012 — Керлинг в России". Archived from the original on 2012-12-15.(in Russian)

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