Olga Kotelnikova (Moscow, RUS) won 4-3 over Elizaveta Trukhina (Irkutsk, RUS) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2018 Russian Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. of the 2018 Russian Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Olga Kotelnikova (Moscow, RUS) won 4-3 over Elizaveta Trukhina (Irkutsk, RUS) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2018 Russian Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Kotelnikova lost
10-4 to
Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Kotelnikova finished 6-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kotelnikova defeated
Evgenia Mamykina (Moscow, RUS) 8-1, then won
8-6 against
Ksenia Novikova (Moscow, RUS). Kotelnikova went on to lose
7-6 against
Ekaterina Galkina (Moscow, RUS). Kotelnikova responded with a
8-6 win over
Ekaterina Telnova (Moscow, RUS). Kotelnikova won
8-4 against
Anastasia Sushkova (Tatarstan, RUS), then won
10-7 against
Ekaterina Kungurova (Novosibirsk, RUS) and
8-4 against
Diana Margarian (Saint Petersburg, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Russian Curling Cup, Kotelnikova earn
10.771 world rankings points and 3000CDN, moving up 151 spots the
World Ranking Standings into 172nd place overall with
10.771 total points. Kotelnikova ranks 159th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
10.771 points earned so far this season.
