What is Ekaterina Koroleva?
[[File:Ekaterina Koroleva Beachhandball Euro 2019.jpg|right|200px]] '''Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Koroleva''' ({{Lang-ru|Екатерина Александровна Королёва}}; 8 October 1998 – 7 July 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rushandball.ru/players/5322/korolyova-ekaterina-aleksandrovna|title=Profile|access-date=9 July 2019}}</ref> was a Russian [[handball]] player. She played for [[Stavropol SKFU]] and for the [[Russia women's national beach handball team|women's national team]].<ref>[https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/9461725/ekaterina-koroleva-dead-drowned-beach-handball-euros/ HANDBALL TRAGEDY Beach handball star Ekaterina Koroleva dead aged 20 after drowning in pond at European Championships]</ref> She was born in [[Krymsk]], [[Russia]]. In 2017 she won at the U-19 European Championships in Slovenia the Silver medal after losing the finale against France. Later the Russian team lost the medal due to a positive [[Doping in sport|doping test]] by a team member of Koroleva.<ref>[http://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-28-33791.html handball-world.news: ''Dopingverstöße: EHF Court of Handball erkennt Russland Silber von der Juniorinnen-EM ab''], abgerufen am 8. Juli 2019.</ref> On 7 July 2019, Koroleva [[drowning|drowned]] in a swimming accident on the closing day of the [[2019 European Beach Handball Championship]] in [[Stare Jabłonki]], [[Poland]], aged 20.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eurohandball.com/article/33017 |title=Russian beach handball player dies after swimming accident |access-date=2019-07-10 |archive-date=2019-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709222503/http://www.eurohandball.com/article/33017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Koroleva, Ekaterina}} [[Category:1998 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Accidental deaths by drowning]] [[Category:Deaths in sport]] [[Category:Russian sportspeople]] [[Category:Handball players]] {{sports-bio-stub}}