Irina Kolesnikova (curler)
# Irina Kolesnikova (curler)

Irina Vladimirovna Kolesnikova (Russian: Ири́на Влади́мировна Коле́сникова; born 10 May 1964 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian curler and curling coach.

As a coach of Russian women's curling team she participated in 2018 Winter Olympics.

She is Master of Sport of Russia (1995) and Merited Coach of Russia (Russian: Заслуженный тренер России, curling, 2016).

## Teams

### Women's

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1994–95 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Marina Tcherepanova | Ekaterina Lissitskaia | | Jury Shouliko | ECC 1994 (16th) |
| 1995–96 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Ekaterina Lissitskaia | Marina Tcherepanova | Natalie Loukashenkova | Joe Wälchli | ECC 1995 (11th) |
| 1996–97 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Yana Nekrasova | Marina Tcherepanova | | | ECC 1996 (13th) |
| 1998–99 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Yana Nekrasova | Marina Tcherepanova | | | ECC 1998 (11th) |
| 1999–00 | Olga Jarkova (fourth) | Nina Golovtchenko (skip) | Yana Nekrasova | Irina Kolesnikova | Tatiana Smirnova | Olga Andrianova | ECC 1999 (8th) |
| 2014–15 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Natalia Ilenkova | Liudmila Murova | Ekaterina Priemskaja | Vadim Raev | WSCC 2015 (11th) |
| 2015–16 | Tatiana Smirnova (fourth) | Irina Kolesnikova | Natalia Ilenkova | Liudmila Murova (skip) | Ekaterina Priemskaja | Vadim Raev | WSCC 2016 (9th) |
| 2016–17 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Natalia Ilenkova | Ekaterina Priemskaja | Liudmila Murova | | WSCC 2017 (6th) |
| 2017–18 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Natalia Ilenkova | Ekaterina Priemskaja | Liudmila Murova | Alexandr Badilin | WSCC 2018 (10th) |
| 2018–19 | Tatiana Smirnova | Irina Kolesnikova | Natalia Ilenkova | Ekaterina Priemskaja | Liudmila Murova | Yana Nekrasova | WSCC 2019 (11th) |

## Record as a coach of national teams

| Year | Tournament, event | National team | Place |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1997 | 1997 European Curling Championships | Russia (men) | 15 |
| 2010 | 2010 World Senior Curling Championships | Russia (senior men) | 9 |
| 2010 | 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship | Russia (mixed doubles) | |
| 2011 | 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship | Russia (mixed) | 13 |
| 2013 | 2013 World Junior Curling Championships | Russia (junior women) | |
| 2013 | 2013 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship | Russia (mixed doubles) | 9 |
| 2014 | 2014 World Junior Curling Championships | Russia (junior women) | |
| 2014 | 2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship | Russia (mixed doubles) | 6 |
| 2015 | 2015 World Junior Curling Championships | Russia (junior women) | 7 |
| 2016 | 2016 World Junior B Curling Championships | Russia (junior women) | |
| 2016 | 2016 World Junior Curling Championships | Russia (junior women) | 7 |
| 2018 | 2018 Winter Olympics | Olympic Athletes from Russia (women) | 9 |
| 2018 | 2018 World Women's Curling Championship | Russia (women) | |
| 2018 | 2018 European Curling Championships | Russia (women) | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019 World Women's Curling Championship | Russia (women) | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019 European Curling Championships | Russia (women) | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021 World Women's Curling Championship | RCF (women) | |
