Olessya Kulakova

Olessya Kulakova
2011 at Le Cannet volleyball
portrait
Date of birth	January 31, 1977
place of birth	Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR
size	1.90 m
position	Middle block
societies
–1997 1997–2002 2002–2004 2004 2005 2006 2006–2008 2009–2012	ADK Alma-Ata Rossi Moscow Schweriner SC Racing Club Cannes Schweriner SC Asystel Novara Volley Padua Schweriner SC Le Cannet Volley-Ball
National team
20 times 177 times	Kazakhstan Germany
successes
1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 2001 2003, 2004 2003, 2004 2003 2003 2004	German champion German cup winner French champion French cup winner Champions League winner, third in the European Championship, ninth in the Olympics
As of February 21, 2013

Olessya Kulakova (* 31 January 1977 as Olessya Skvortsova in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Kazakh and German Volleyball -Nationalspielerin.

Career

Olessya Skvortsova played as a teenager in her home country with ADK Alma-Ata and later with Rossi Moscow . She also had twenty appearances in the Kazakh national team . In 1997, the middle blocker switched to the German Bundesliga club Schweriner SC , with whom she was four times German champion and one German cup winner . In the categories “block” and “attack” she was continuously represented in the rankings of German volleyball from 1999 to 2002 . She then played in France at Racing Club Cannes, where she won the championship and the cup in 2003 and 2004. She also won the 2003 Champions League . After brief stints in Italy at Asystel Novara and Volley Padua , Olessya Kulakova played again at Schweriner SC from 2006 to 2008. At the end of her career she was again active in France with Le Cannet Volley-Ball.

Olessya Kulakova received German citizenship in 2001 and also played in the German national team until 2006 . The highlights here were winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in Turkey in 2003 and participating in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

Web links

• Olessya Kulakova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• DVV profile 2005
• FIVB profile 2005
• Ranking list 1999 (pdf; 384 kB)
• Ranking list 2000 (pdf; 287 kB)
• Ranking list 2001 (pdf; 440 kB)
• Ranking list 2002 (pdf; 103 kB) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )