Alexandra Alexandrovna Rajewa

	Alexandra Rajewa
Full name	Alexandra Alexandrovna Rajewa
birthday	20th August 1992
place of birth	Moscow
Career
nation	Russia
society	Moskvitch CC
Playing position	Second
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
World Curling Championship
Junior World Curling Championship
European Curling Championship
Winter Universiade
	last change: November 11, 2017

Alexandra Alexandrovna Rajewa ( Russian Александра Александровна Ра́ева ; born August 20, 1992 in Moscow as Alexandra Alexandrovna Saitowa (Саитова)) is a Russian curler . She plays second in Skip Anna Sidorova's team .

Her first international competition was the Junior World Championship in 2012 in Östersund , where she played as a substitute for the Russian junior national team and won the bronze medal. At the Junior World Championships in 2013 she won the gold medal as second in Skip Alina Kovalyova 's team.

With the Russian team she won gold at the Winter Universiade 2013 and the Winter Universiade 2015 .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (Russia) she won the gold medal together with Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina (third) and Jekaterina Galkina (lead).

Alexandra Rajewa has taken part in the World Curling Championship four times . In 2014 , 2015 and 2016 she won the bronze medal (playing in second place). At the 2017 World Cup she was a substitute for the Russian team (Skip: Anna Sidorowa, Third: Margarita Fomina , Second: Alina Kowalewa, Lead: Nkeiruka Jesech ). The team reached the final, but had to admit defeat to Rachel Homan's Canadian team 3: 8.

At the 2015 European Curling Championships in Esbjerg , she played second and moved into the final with the Russian team. There the team beat Eve Muirhead's Scottish team 6: 4. At the European Curling Championships 2017 she appeared again with the Sidorova team; the team finished fifth.

Rajewa has been taking part in the World Curling Tour with Team Sidorowa for several years and has so far won the following tournaments: International ZO Women's Tournament (2013, 2014), Medicine Hat (2014), Glynhill Ladies International (2015), Women's Masters Basel ( 2015), CCT Arctic Cup (2016).

In the run-up to the 2014 Olympic Games, Rajewa modeled freestyle skier Ekaterina Stolyarowa , curler colleagues Jekaterina Galkina and Olga Zyablikowa , ice hockey player Swetlana Kolmykowa and Anna Prugmykowa together with the native Russian and short tracker Tatjana Borodulina , who started for Australia , as well as her Russian compatriots ; Skeleton runner Jelena Nikitina , figure skater Ekaterina Bobrowa , ski crosser Marija Komissarowa and ski jumper Irina Avakumowa for the lingerie manufacturer S&M.

Individual evidence

Web links

Alexandra Alexandrowna Rajewa on Worldcurling.org (English)
http://www.curling.ru/people/players/1/

personal data
SURNAME	Rajewa, Alexandra Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ра́ева, Александра Александровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian curler
DATE OF BIRTH	20th August 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow

[1] Team Anna Sidorova, Grand Slam of Curling

[2] Aleksandra Saeva, worldcurl.com

[3] Off-piste with Russia's female Olympians: Russia goes on the Sochi charm offensive with scantily clad photo-call of its athletes as you've never seen them before