Ekaterina Galkina

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

Ekaterina Galkina Екатерина Галкина
Curler  ♀
Born	(1988-08-10) 10 August 1988 Moscow, Russia
Team
Curling club	Moskvitch CC, Moscow, RUS
Skip	Anna Sidorova
Third	Margarita Fomina
Second	Alexandra Saitova
Lead	Ekaterina Galkina
Alternate	Nkeirouka 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 appearances	Winter 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[1] 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.[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.