Alexey Tselousov is a Russian curler from

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Tselousov has played in eight

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(1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2011), skipping all but two (1995 and 2004) when he played second for the Russian team. While playing on the Russian team, his best performance was 2004 when he played second for

Alexander Kirikov Alexander Alexandrovich Kirikov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ки́риков; born 21 October 1980 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian curler. At the international level he is a 2006 European Mixed Curling Championshi ...

. The rink finished in 8th place. Tselousov's only international medal came at the

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, where he and partner

Alina Kovaleva Alina Romanovna Kovaleva (russian: Алина Романовна Ковалёва; born 18 February 1993) is a Russian curler from Saint Petersburg. Her major achievement to date was winning the 2015 European Curling Championships as alternate ...

won the silver medal after losing to Switzerland 11-2 in the final. Tselousov won his first

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event in 2011 when he won the 2011 Cloverdale Cash Spiel. At the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship, the

Alexey Stukalskiy Alexey Vitalyevich Stukalskiy (russian: link=no, Алексей Витальевич Стукальский; born 8 July 1988) is a Russian curler. He plays fourth stones for Andrey Drozdov on the Russian national team. Career Stukalskiy began ...

rink was slated to represent Russia, however, was replaced last-minute with Tselousov's rink after the Stukalskiy rink could not participate due to illness. This was Tselousov's second appearance at the

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