Ekaterina Galkina

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
Moscow, Russia
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
2014 Saint John
2015 Sapporo
Winter Universiade
2013 Trentino
2015 Granada
2007 Torino
2011 Erzurum
2009 Harbin
World Junior Championships
2006 Jeonju
European Championships
2006 Basel
2012 Karlstadt
2014 Champéry
2011 Moscow
European Junior Challenge
2005 Copenhagen
Russian Women's Curling Championships
2006 Moscow
2011 Tver/Dmitrov
2013 Dmitrov
2015 Sochi
2016 Sochi
2007 Moscow
2008 Moscow
2009 Moscow
2010 Dmitrov
2012 Dmitrov
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.

In January 2010 Galkina was officially named to the Russian Olympic Team. 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.

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

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

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