Anna Sidorova

Anna Sidorova Анна Сидорова
Curler
Born	(1991-02-06) February 6, 1991 Moscow, Soviet Union
Team
Curling club	Moskvitch CC, Moscow, RUS
Skip	Anna Sidorova
Third	Alexandra Raeva
Second	Margarita Fomina
Lead	Nkeirouka Ezekh
Alternate	Alina Kovaleva
Career
World Championship appearances	7 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
European Championship appearances	7 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Olympic appearances	2 (2010, 2014)
Medal record Curling Representing  Russia World Championships 2014 Saint John 2015 Sapporo 2016 Swift Current Winter Universiade 2013 Trentino 2015 Granada 2011 Erzurum European Championships 2012 Karlstad 2015 Esbjerg 2014 Champéry 2011 Moscow World Junior Curling Championships 2011 Perth 2012 Östersund

Anna Vladimirovna Sidorova (Russian: А́нна Влади́мировна Си́дорова; born February 6, 1991 in Moscow) is a curler from Russia.^[1] She currently skips the Russian national women's curling team.

Career

Sidorova was a figure skater until age 13, when a leg injury forced her to give up the sport. At that point, she took up curling.^[2]

As a junior, Sidorova represented Russia at four World Junior Curling Championships (2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012). She won the bronze medal as the skip of the Russian junior team in 2011 and 2012.

At the age of 19, Sidorova was named late to the Russian Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada as the team's third. Originally Olga Jarkova was named to the team; however, Jarkova was taken out at the last minute and Sidorova was added to the team. For the fifth match, against the USA, and the sixth match, against Switzerland, Sidorova replaced Ludmila Privivkova as skip. She also replaced Ludmila Privivkova in the 8th Game against China as the Skip. Sidorova thus became the youngest skip at the games, since British skip Eve Muirhead, while also 19 years old at the time, is ten months older.

In addition to playing third on the Russian Olympic Team Sidorova has also skipped her own team on the World Curling Tour (with Olga Jarkova throwing second stones).^[3] She joined up with Privivkova's team in 2011. In 2012, Sidorova began skipping the team, with Privivkova at third. The team won a gold medal at the European Curling Championships in 2012 with their new lineup.

Sidorova was the skip of team Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She led the team to a 9th-place finish, with a 3-6 record. She also skipped Team Russia at the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held from Mar. 15 to 23 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Her team finished the round robin with an 8-3 record, earning the third seed in the playoffs. Team Russia lost to Team Korea in the 3-4 playoff game, but in a rematch the following day, Sidorova and her teammates defeated Team Korea to win the bronze medal. It was the first medal for Russia in the history of the world women's curling championships.

She then followed up with bronze medals at both the 2015 and 2016 world women's curling championships. She just narrowly missed playing for gold the first time, losing to Team Japan on the very last shot of the 2016 semi final. After defeating Canada's Chelsea Carey for her 3rd straight bronze, she spoke of feeling encouraged by getting closer to the gold or silver each time, and hopes 2017 and 2018 will be her years.

Personal life

Sidorova is currently a student.^[4]

Grand Slam record

Sidorova's Russian rink had a fairly successful Grand Slam season in 2012–13, making it as far as the semi-finals at the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic. She made it to her first Grand Slam finals at the 2015 Players' Championship, losing to Eve Muirhead.

Former events

Teammates

2014 Sochi Olympic Games

Margarita Fomina, Third

Alexandra Saitova, Second

Ekaterina Galkina, Lead

Nkeirouka Ezekh, Alternate

External links

• Anna Sidorova on the World Curling Federation database

• Anna Sidorova on the World Curling Tour database
• Official website of Team Sidorova

References