Ekaterina Koroleva

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Koroleva (; 8 October 1998 – 7 July 2019) was a Russian handball player. She played for Stavropol SKFU and for the women's national team.HANDBALL TRAGEDY Beach handball star Ekaterina Koroleva dead aged 20 after drowning in pond at European Championships She was born in Krymsk, Russia.

In 2017 she won at the U-19 European Championships in Slovenia the Silver medal after losing the finale against France. Later the Russian team lost the medal due to a positive doping test by a team member of Koroleva.handball-world.news: Dopingverstöße: EHF Court of Handball erkennt Russland Silber von der Juniorinnen-EM ab , abgerufen am 8. Juli 2019. 

On 7 July 2019, Koroleva drowned in a swimming accident on the closing day of the 2019 European Beach Handball Championship in Stare Jabłonki, Poland, aged 20.

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