# Ekaterina Galkina

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

## Teams
### Women's

| Season | 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) |
| 2004–05 | Liudmila Privivkova | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Angela Tuvaeva | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Olga Andrianova, Yory Andrianov | EJCC 2005 |
| 2004–05 | Liudmila Privivkova | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Angela Tuvaeva | Olga Andrianova | WJCC 2005 (5th) |
| 2004–05 | 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) |
| 2005–06 | Liudmila Privivkova | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Angela Tuvaeva | Daria Kozlova | Olga Andrianova | WJCC 2006 |
| 2005–06 | 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 |
| 2006–07 | Liudmila Privivkova | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Angela Tuvaeva | Daria Kozlova | Olga Andrianova | WJCC 2007 (7th) |
| 2006–07 | 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) |
| 2007–08 | 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 |
| 2008–09 | Margarita Fomina | Ekaterina Galkina | Anna Sidorova | Daria Kozlova | Galina Arsenkina | Olga Andrianova | WJCC 2009 (4th) |
| 2008–09 | Liudmila Privivkova | Olga Jarkova | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Olga Andrianova | ECC 2008 (7th) WCC 2009 (7th) |
| 2008–09 | 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) |
| 2009–10 | Anna Sidorova | Margarita Fomina | Ekaterina Galkina | Galina Arsenkina | Ekaterina Antonova | Olga Andrianova | WJCC 2010 (5th) |
| 2009–10 | Liudmila Privivkova | Anna Sidorova | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Olga Andrianova | WOG 2010 (9th) WCC 2010 (8th) |
| 2009–10 | 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 |
| 2010–11 | Liudmila Privivkova | Anna Sidorova | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Ekaterina Galkina | Margarita Fomina | Olga Andrianova | ECC 2010 (4th) |
| 2010–11 | Liudmila Privivkova | Anna Sidorova | Margarita Fomina | Ekaterina Galkina | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Olga Andrianova | WCC 2011 (6th) |
| 2010–11 | 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) |
| 2011–12 | 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) |
| 2012–13 | 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 |
| 2013–14 | Anna Sidorova | Margarita Fomina | Aleksandra Saitova | Ekaterina Galkina | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Thomas Lips | ECC 2013 (5th) WOG 2014 (9th) WCC 2014 |
| 2013–14 | 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

| 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) |
| 2011–12 | Roman Kutuzov | Nkeirouka Ezekh | Vadim Raev | Ekaterina Galkina | Sergey Manulychev, Tatiana Makeeva | RMxCC 2012 |