Olga Nikolayevna Jarkova (russian: Óльга Никола́евна Жарко́ва; born January 11, 1979, in

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) is a Russian curler. She has represented Russia twice at the Winter Olympics, in

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and

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Career

Jarkova has been curling for Russia internationally since 1999, when she threw fourth stones for

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at the World Junior Challenge where they won silver. She threw third stones that year at a disappointing last place finish in the

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. After this, she was back to throwing fourth stones. At the 2001 European Curling Championships she became skip of the Russian team. This move eventually paid off, as the team won the gold medal at the 2003 Universiade. They defeated

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in the final. Jarkova remained as the Russian skip until 2005 when she was the team's alternate at the

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. She was the second at the 2005 European Championships and third at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

. Jarkova has been to two Olympics. She skipped the team in 2002, and placed last and in 2006 Russia placed fifth. She became European Champion in 2006 as part of

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 ...

's team.

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* Living people 1979 births Russian female curlers Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Russia Curlers from Moscow European curling champions Universiade medalists in curling FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2003 Winter Universiade {{Russia-curling-bio-stub