Anna Vladimirovna Sidorova (russian: А́нна Влади́мировна Си́дорова; born 6 February 1991) is a
Russian
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curler. She currently
skips her own team on the
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from John ...
. Sidorova was the skip of the Russian team that won bronze medals at the
World Women's Curling Championships from 2014 to 2016 and the silver medal at the
2017 World Women's Curling Championship
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.
Career
As a junior, Sidorova represented Russia at four
World Junior Curling Championships
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(2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012). She won the bronze medal as the
skip
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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
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in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada as the team's third. Originally
Olga Jarkova
Olga Nikolayevna Jarkova (russian: Óльга Никола́евна Жарко́ва; born January 11, 1979, in Moscow, Soviet Union, USSR) is a Russian curling, curler. She has represented Russia twice at the Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olymp ...
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 U.S., and the sixth match, against Switzerland, Sidorova replaced
Ludmila Privivkova
Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova (russian: Людмила Андреевна Прививкова) (born 13 September 1986 in Moscow; also spelled Ludmila or Liudmilla, but she spells it Liudmila) is a Curling, curler (Skip (curling), Skip) from Ru ...
as skip. She also replaced
Ludmila Privivkova
Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova (russian: Людмила Андреевна Прививкова) (born 13 September 1986 in Moscow; also spelled Ludmila or Liudmilla, but she spells it Liudmila) is a Curling, curler (Skip (curling), Skip) from Ru ...
in the eighth Game against China as the Skip. Sidorova thus became the youngest skip at the games, since British skip
Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the br ...
, 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). She joined 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
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in 2012 with their new lineup.
Sidorova was the skip of team Russia at the
2014 Winter Olympics. She led the team to a ninth-place finish, with a 3–6 record. She also skipped Team Russia at the
2014 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2014 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as Ford World Women's Curling Championship 2014 for sponsorship reasons) was held from 15 to 23 March at the Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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The following nations ...
held from 15 to 23 March in
Saint John, New Brunswick
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, 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 vs. 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, and a gold medal at the
2015 European Curling Championships
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in the meantime. She just narrowly missed playing for gold for the first time at the 2016 Worlds, losing to Team Japan on the last shot of the semifinal. After defeating Canada's Chelsea Carey for her third straight bronze, she spoke of feeling encouraged by getting closer to the gold or silver each time, and hoped that 2017 and 2018 would be her years. She made her first World Championship final at the
2017 Worlds, but settled for silver after losing to Canada's
Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Can ...
8–3 in the final.
Sidorova's rink was initially chosen to represent Russia at the
2018 Winter Olympics
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, but poor play during the 2017–18 season forced the Russian Curling Federation to hold a best-of-seven
Olympic Trials against St. Peterburg's
Victoria Moiseeva
Victoria Alexandrovna Moiseeva (russian: Викто́рия Алекса́ндровна Моисе́ева; born January 10, 1991) is a Russian curler. She won gold as an alternate of the Russian national women's team at the 2013 Winter Univer ...
rink to see who would represent the "Olympic Athletes from Russia" team at the Olympics. Sidorova lost the series in five games.
Sidorova was the alternate for the Russian team at the
2018 Worlds, where the Russian team would take home the bronze medal. Sidorova represented Russia at three legs of the
2018–19 Curling World Cup. In the
first leg she went 3-3, at the
third leg she went 4-2 just missing the final by one point. At the
Grand Final
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, she went 4-2 once again just missing the final.
Team Sidorova started the
2019–20 season at the
2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic
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where they lost in the qualification game. They next played in the
Stu Sells Oakville Tankard
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where they lost to
Anna Hasselborg in the final. They missed the playoffs at the inaugural
WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup before having a quarterfinal finish at the
Women's Masters Basel. Despite their early successes on tour, Team Sidorova lost the Russian qualifier for the
2019 European Curling Championships
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to
Alina Kovaleva
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in six games. They turned things around however the following month at the
Karuizawa International
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where they went an undefeated 7–0 throughout the event and defeated
Satsuki Fujisawa
is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at t ...
5–4 in the final. They also had a semifinal finish at the
Glynhill Ladies International and a quarterfinal finish at the
International Bernese Ladies Cup
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. Their final event of the season was at the
2020 Russian Women's World Qualification Event where they would once again lose to the Kovaleva rink in a best of seven series.
Sidorova and her team began the abbreviated
2020–21 season at the
2020 Russian Women's Curling Cup where they went undefeated until the final where they lost to Team Kovaleva. In December 2020, Team Sidorova competed in the 2020 national championship as it had been postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. There, they topped the round robin with an 8–1 record, defeating the Kovaleva rink in their final round robin draw. They then lost both the 1 vs. 2 page playoff and final to Kovaleva, settling for silver. In April 2021, her team competed in the 2021 national championship where they lost in the final to the
Olga Jarkova
Olga Nikolayevna Jarkova (russian: Óльга Никола́евна Жарко́ва; born January 11, 1979, in Moscow, Soviet Union, USSR) is a Russian curling, curler. She has represented Russia twice at the Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olymp ...
rink. Sidorova ended her season at the
2021 WCT Arctic Cup mixed doubles tournament where she competed with
Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Timofeev (russian: Алексе́й Вячесла́вович Тимофе́ев; born 22 February 1991 in Slantsy, Soviet Union) is a Russian curler from Saint Petersburg.
He skipped the Russian national men's curling ...
. The pair finished 2–2 through the round robin, not enough to advance to the playoffs.
Personal life
She 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
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.
Sidorova was a student in 2016.
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
The 2015 Players' Championship was held from April 7 to 12 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It was the fifth and final Grand Slam of the 2014–15 World Curling Tour.
Sault Ste. Marie's Brad Jacobs rink won their first men' ...
, losing to Eve Muirhead.
Former events
Teams
References
External links
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Official website of Team Sidorova
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1991 births
Living people
Russian female curlers
Olympic curlers of Russia
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Russian curling champions
Curlers from Moscow
Russian State University for the Humanities alumni
European curling champions
Universiade medalists in curling
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade