Ekaterina Galkina

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Galkina (Russian: Екатерина Владимировна Галкина; born 10 August 1988 in Moscow) is a Russian curler.

Ekaterina Galkina Екатерина Галкина
Curler
Born	(1988-08-10) 10 August 1988
Team
Curling club	Moskvitch CC, Moscow, RUS
Skip	Anna Sidorova
Third	Margarita Fomina
Second	Alexandra Saitova
Lead	Ekaterina Galkina
Alternate	Nkeirouka Ezekh
Career
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)
Medal record Curling Representing  Russia 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

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 of Humanities.[1]

In January 2010 Galkina was officially named to the Russian Olympic Team.[2] 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.