Petr Dmitrievich Dron (; born 28 August 1985 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

) is a Russian curler and curling

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. He lives in

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. He competed at the 2013

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, and at the

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. He currently coaches the Russian men's junior team.

Career

Dron has been playing on curling competitions since 1996. He finished the

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. Nationally, Dron won the Federation Cup of Russia (2010–2011), and thrice the

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(2007, 2011, 2013). He was a member of the Russian team at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship and at the

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and

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. Dron won the 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with

Yana Nekrasova Yana Anatolyevna Nekrasova (; born 10 February 1976 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian curler, a , a 2003 Winter Universiade champion and a four-time Russian women's champion (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000). (History of Curling in Russia; look at "РЕ ...

. At the 2014 Olympic Games in

, his team automatically qualified and became 7th there. In 2016, Dron and

Victoria Moiseeva Victoria Alexandrovna Moiseeva (; born January 10, 1991) is a Russian curler. She won gold as an alternate of the Russian national women's team at the 2013 Winter Universiade and the 2015 Winter Universiade. She plays for CC Adamant ( St. Pete ...

won the Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling Cup, defeating Spaniards Otaegi / Unanue.

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* 1985 births Living people Curlers from Saint Petersburg Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Russian male curlers Olympic curlers for Russia Russian curling champions World mixed doubles curling champions Russian curling coaches Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health alumni 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-curling-bio-stub