Second Alexandra Raeva Alternate Alina Kovaleva | Third Margarita Fomina Lead Nkeiruka Ezekh | |
Curling club Adamant CC,Saint Petersburg, RUS | ||
Russian curling alina kovaleva tapback for the win
Alina Romanovna Kovaleva (Russian: Алина Романовна Ковалёва; born 18 February 1993) is a Russian curler. Her major achievement to date was winning the 2015 European Curling Championships as alternate. Kovaleva is Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2016).
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Career
Kovaleva practiced curling in the school years in her home town Slantsy. She then moved to St. Petersburg to the Sports School of Olympic Reserve, No. 2. Already after three years of curling she and her coach Alexey Tselousov in 2011 became national champions and silver medalists of the world double mixed championships. Since then she is active in mixed tournaments.
From 2013 to 2014, she was a member of the national junior team, winning the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships in Sochi and the 2014 World Junior Curling Championships in Flims.
Kovaleva plays for Adamant in St. Petersburg as skip. As a member of the club she won the 2013 Russian Cup, and became silver medalist of the 2015 Russian Women's Championships, losing in the final to Moskva 1, 4:7.
In November 2015, the Russian debuted as a member of the national team at the 2015 European Curling Championships in Esbjerg, replacing Ekaterina Galkina who made a break from curling. The Russians won the tournament; for Kovaleva it was the first gold medal in the European Championships.