Galkina Runner-Up at 2018 Russian Curling Cup

SKIP
Ekaterina
Galkina

Third
Ekaterina
Antonova

Second
Anna
Antonyuk

Lead
Anastasia
Skultan

Ekaterina Galkina (Moscow, RUS) lost 6-3 to Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Galkina won 6-4 over Elizaveta Trukhina (Irkutsk, RUS) in the semifinals of the 2018 Russian Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia;

Galkina finished 7-0 in the 16 team Russian Curling Cup qualifying round, held December 21 - 25, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Galkina defeated Diana Margarian (Saint Petersburg, RUS) 8-5, then won 11-2 against Anastasia Sushkova (Tatarstan, RUS) and 7-6 against Olga Kotelnikova (Moscow, RUS). Galkina won 6-4 against Ekaterina Kungurova (Novosibirsk, RUS), then won 7-4 against Evgenia Mamykina (Moscow, RUS) and 5-3 against Ekaterina Telnova (Moscow, RUS). Galkina won 5-4 against Ksenia Novikova (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Russian Curling Cup, Galkina take home 13.939 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize. For week 20 of the event schedule, Galkina did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Galkina ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	8	1	0	0.889	3-0	4-0	2-0	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	69	58	38	8.41	5.51	2.90	5.22	3.77	1.61	1.46	1.01

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	30	33	8	3	2-0	1-0	4-1	1.10	0.27	0.26	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	39	25	30	4	0-0	2-1	5-9	0.64	0.77	0.47	0.41

Another weekend of curling means another breakout for a young Swiss team as Keiser was added at second to the established Selina Witschonke team.

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