Elena Igorevna Kirillova, (russian: Елена Игоревна Данилочкина; born 27 January 1986), née Elena Danilochkina, (russian: Елена Данилочкина) is a Russian
basketball
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player. She played as a
shooting guard for the
Russian women's national team and
Nadezhda Orenburg
PBK Nadezhda Orenburg (russian: ПБК «Надежда») is a Russian women's basketball club from Orenburg founded in 1994.
Nadezhda has been 3rd in the Russian Premier League in 2010 and 2011, and reached the Russian Cup's final from 2011 ...
in the
Russian Premier League
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. She then switched to
Dynamo Kursk
WBC Dynamo Kursk (russian: ЖБК «Динамо» Курск) is a Russian women's basketball club from Kursk playing in the Russian Premier League. They won their first FIBA Eurocup title in 2012. In the 2016–17 season, Kursk won the EuroLea ...
in 2016, winning with her team the
EuroLeague in 2017.
Danilochkina led Russia to the gold medal at the
EuroBasket Women 2011
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and was voted the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Her team placed fourth at the
2012 Summer Olympics.
Yelena Danilochkina
. sports-reference.com
References
Russian women's basketball players
1986 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players for Russia
Basketball players from Moscow
Shooting guards
Universiade medalists in basketball
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
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