Valeria Tarakanova

Valeria Tarakanova
Валерия Тараканова
Valeria Tarakanova; Валерия Тараканова
Born	20 June 1998 (age 26); Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb; 13 st 1 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Catches	Left
ZhHL team; Former teams	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod; SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
National team	Russia
Playing career	2014–present
Universiade

Valeria Dmitrievna Tarakanova (Russian: Валерия Дмитриевна Тараканова, romanized: Valeriya Dmitriyevna Tarakanova; born 20 June 1998) is a Russian ice hockey goaltender, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

Playing career

As a junior player with the Russian national under-18 team, Tarakanova participated in the IIHF Women's U18 World Championships in 2014, 2015, and 2016. At the 2015 tournament, she backstopped the Russian team to a bronze medal victory with a .919 save percentage and 2.74 goals against average while playing in all six games. In recognition of her outstanding play, she was selected as Best Goaltender by the tournament directorate, named to the media All-Star Team, and chosen as a top-3 player on the Russian team by the coaches. At the 2016 tournament, she again served as the starting netminder, playing in all six games and registering a .901 save percentage and 2.91 goals against average, as Russia fell to Sweden in the bronze medal match. Despite narrowly missing the medal podium, Tarakanova was singled out as the tournament MVP by the media and, in a repeat of the previous year, chosen as a top-3 player on the Russian team.

She represented Russia at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship and is a two-time Winter Universiade gold medalist, having participated in the Russian victories in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2017 Winter Universiade and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2019 Winter Universiade.^[1] With the Olympic Athletes from Russia women's national ice hockey team, she participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peyongchang.

References

^ "2015 IIHF World Championship roster" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.

External links

Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
Valeria Tarakanova at Olympedia (archive)

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[1] "2015 IIHF World Championship roster" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.

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