Ekaterina Alexandrovna Korolyova

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Ekaterina Korolyova
Ekaterina Koroleva Beach Handball Euro 2019.jpg

At a preliminary round of the Beach Handball European Championships 2019

Player information
Full name Ekaterina Alexandrovna Korolyova
birthday October 8, 1998
place of birth Krymsk , Russia
citizenship RussiaRussia Russia
date of death 7th July 2019
Place of death Stare Jabłonki , Poland
height 1.69 m
Playing position Left winger
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
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0000–2019 RussiaRussia Stavropol SKFU

As of July 8, 2019

Jekaterina Alexandrowna Koroljowa ( Russian Екатерина Александровна Королёва ; born October 8, 1998 in Krymsk ; † July 7, 2019 in Stare Jabłonki , Poland ) was a Russian handball player .

Career

Korolyova started playing handball at the age of 15. Koroljowa played for the Russian club Stavropol SKFU , for which she ran up in the top Russian league on the left wing position . In the 2018/19 season she scored 56 goals in 23 games for Stavropol. She won the silver medal with Russia at the U-19 European Championship in 2017 , but the team was later stripped of it due to a doping violation. She also finished fourth with Russia at the 2018 U-20 World Handball Championship .

The right-handed Korolyova also played beach handball . Immediately after the end of Beach Handball Euro 2019 in Stare Jabłonki , Poland , where Koroljowa finished ninth with the Russian national team, she died while swimming in a lake right next to the venue.

Web links

Commons : Jekaterina Alexandrovna Koroljowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b rushandball.ru: Королёва Екатерина Александровна , accessed on July 8, 2019.
  2. a b c handball-world.news: Beach handball mourns Ekaterina Koroleva: tragic swimming accident after the European Championships , accessed on July 8, 2019.
  3. a b stav.aif.ru: Чем известна погибшая ставропольская гандболистка Екатерина Королёва? , accessed July 10, 2019.
  4. eurohandball.com: Ekaterina Koroleva , accessed on July 8, 2019.
  5. handball-world.news: Doping violations: EHF Court of Handball recognizes Russia silver from the European Junior Championships , accessed on July 8, 2019.
  6. archive.ihf.info: Russia , accessed July 8, 2019.