Russian women's curling team
Sochi 2014 Ambassador
“We are overjoyed to be Ambassadors for Sochi 2014, but its double the amount of responsibility: now we represent both a country with a great sports history and a host country of the Olympic Games.”
Skip: Ludmila Privivkova, DOB 13 September 1986
Club: Moskvich Experimental School of Sporting Excellence (ESSE), Moscow
First coach: Olga Andrianova
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Student, School of Economics, Russian State Tsiolkovsky University of Technology.
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship and 2006 Junior World Championship, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
Club: Moskvich Experimental School of Sporting Excellence (ESSE), Moscow
First coach: Olga Andrianova
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Student, School of Economics, Russian State Tsiolkovsky University of Technology.
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship and 2006 Junior World Championship, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
Vice Skip: Olga Zharkova, DOB 11 January 1979
Club: Moskvich ESSE, Moscow
First coach: Olga Andrianova
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Curling instructor; correspondence student at Lesgaft University of Physical Education.
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship, winner of the 2003 World Student Winter Games, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships. Until recently, the skip of the Russian national team.
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Curling instructor; correspondence student at Lesgaft University of Physical Education.
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship, winner of the 2003 World Student Winter Games, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships. Until recently, the skip of the Russian national team.
Second (No. 2): Ezekh (Kira) Nkeiruka, DOB 17 October 1983
Club: Moskvich ESSE, Moscow
First coach: Olga Andrianova
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Student of the Moscow Aviation Institute (Technical University)
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship, winner of the 2003 World Student Winter Games, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
Lead (No. 1): Ekaterina Galkina, DOB 10 August 1988
Club: Moskvich ESSE, Moscow
First coach: Anna Andrianova
Personal coach: Olga Andrianova
Student of the Department of International Relations, Russian National University of Humanities.
World-class athlete
Participant of the 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2006 European Championship and 2006 Junior World Championship; repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
Alternative (backup player): Margarita Fomina, DOB 19 August 1988
Club: Moskvich ESSE, Moscow
Winner of the 2006 European Championship, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
Yana Nekrasova, DOB 10 February 1976
Club: Sport Club of the Army (SCA), St. Petersburg and SSE in Winter Sports, St. Petersburg.
In active military service (Leningrad Military District); graduate student of Lesgaft University of Physical Education.
World-class athlete.
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2003 World Student Winter Games, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
* Played in the Russian national team at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin (Italy), but left the team shortly after that.
In active military service (Leningrad Military District); graduate student of Lesgaft University of Physical Education.
World-class athlete.
Participant of the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games, winner of the 2003 World Student Winter Games, repeat winner or laureate of Russian championships.
* Played in the Russian national team at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin (Italy), but left the team shortly after that.
Head coach of the team: Olga Andrianova, a celebrated Russian coach (Moscow). Credentials: head coach of the Russian Olympic team at the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games and the European Championships of 2005 and 2006; head coach of the student team that won the 2003 Student Winter Games; head coach of the Moskvich ESSE club team.
President of the Russian Curling Federation since October 2006.
