Anton Igorevich Kalalb (; born 16 March 1988) is a Russian curler from

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. Kalalb was a member of the Russian team at the 2010, 2012 and 2014

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. He was the alternate on the Russian team in both 2010 and 2012. At the

2010 European Curling Championships The 2010 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held in Champéry, Switzerland from December 3–11, 2010. The Group C matches took place from September 24–28 at the Greenacres Ice Rink in Howwood, Scotland. The winners of the Group ...

he played in all nine games for the team, which was skipped by

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and finished 9th. At the

2012 European Curling Championships The 2012 European Curling Championships was held from December 7 to 15 at the Löfbergs Lila Arena and the Karlstad Curling Club in Karlstad, Sweden. The Group A competitions was held at the Löfbergs Lila Arena, while the Group B competitions ...

he would play in three games for the team, which finished fifth. At the

2014 European Curling Championships The 2014 European Curling Championships were held November 22 to 29 at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland. Switzerland last hosted the European Curling Championships in 2010, when it was also held in Champéry. The Group C compet ...

, he played lead for

Evgeny Arkhipov Evgeny Valeryevich Arkhipov (; born 4 January 1992) is a Russian curler from Moscow. He currently skips the Russian national curling team and skips a different rink on the World Curling Tour. Arkhipov played on the Russian national junior tea ...

, finishing sixth. The placement qualified the team to represent Russia at the

2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship The 2015 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as Ford World Men's Curling Championship 2015 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 28 to April 5 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It marked the first time that ...

. At the 2015 Worlds, the Russian team finished last. Kalalb also played in the

2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship The 2013 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the Ford World Men's Curling Championship 2013 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 30 to April 7, 2013 at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thi ...

as the alternate. He would play in two games, and the team finished in 10th. Also in 2015, Kalalb was a member of the Russian team (skipped by Arkhipov) that won a silver medal at the

2015 Winter Universiade The 2015 Winter Universiade, the XXVII Winter Universiade, was a multi-sport winter event with the host ducties were shared by Granada, Spain and Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. On 14 March 2009, FISU announced that the host would be Granada because t ...

. He was also a member of the Russian team at the

2011 European Mixed Curling Championship The 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship was held from September 30 to October 8 at the Tårnby Curling Club in Tårnby, Denmark. In the final, Switzerland, skipped by Thomas Lips, won their first title after a 9–3 defeat of Germany in seve ...

, which finished 13th.

Personal life

Kalalb is married.2019 World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide: Team Russia

References

External links

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Anton Kalalb
at the

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(archived) 1988 births Living people Russian male curlers Winter World University Games medalists in curling FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade Olympic curlers for Russia Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Curlers from Moscow Curlers from Saint Petersburg Sportspeople from Sochi 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-curling-bio-stub