Evgenia Ukolova

Yevgeniya Ukolowa (Russian Евгения Уколова, English transcription: Evgenia Ukolova, born May 17, 1989 in Moscow) is a Russian volleyball player.

Career

Ukolowa played in 2006 with Yekaterina Rajewskaja in St. Petersburg Open her first tournament of the FIVB World Tour. In 2007, she formed a duo with Marija Andrejewna Prokopjewa, born Bratkowa. At the European Championships in Valencia in 2007, the Prokopjewa / Ukolowa lost their opening game against the Latvians Jursone / Minusa. On the losing side, they could first defeat Monday Olli / Swoboda from Austria before they were eliminated in the tiebreak against the Dutch women Kadijk / bogs. A year later they lost at the European Championships in Hamburg, also in the first game against the Greeks Koutroumanidou / Tsiartsiani. In the losers round they won two games, before they had to admit defeat to the German duo Claassen / Röder in three sets. At the World Tour 2008 they reached the best results a 17th place at the Moscow Grand Slam and a 13th place at the Marseille Open. At the 2009 World Championships in Stavanger they could win only two sets in the first round and eliminated as a group last of. Then they came in ninth Grand Slam in Marseille for the first time in the Top Ten of World Tour tournament. At the European Championships in Sochi they won on home soil their opening game against bogs / Wesselink; but since they lost the following two games, that they separated from third parties as a group after the group stage. In the last tournament of the year in Phuket, they won their first medal as third parties. In 2010 she started with a ninth place in Brasília and achieved the same result at the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt. At the European Championships in Berlin, they secured three wins to win the group. Then they lost in the second round against Jursone / Minusa in three sets.

Ukolowa was at the U23 European Championships in Kos with Anna Wosakowa fourth. Then they played two open tournaments with Alexandra Alexandrovna Schirjajewa. In the first four open tournaments in 2011 she went to with Anastasia Wassina. The Mysłowice Open she made the first time a duet with Ekaterina Chomjakowa. At the 2011 World Championships in Rome Chomjakowa / Ukolowa managed to win the group, but then lost in the first round against the Germans Goller / Ludwig. According to a ninth place finish at the Moscow Grand Slam they sat by at the European Championship in Kristiansand with only one preliminary round victory as runners-up in the second round and were subject to the Czechs Klapalová / Háječková. The following year they won at the European Championships in The Hague, their preliminary round group without dropping a set, before they were eliminated in the second round against the Belgian duo Mouha / Gielen. At the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt 2012, she sat down in the final in three sets against Meppelink / van Gestel through and thus celebrated their first tournament victory. They then took part in London Olympics. There they came as a group Second last sixteen and finished the tournament after losing against the Chinese Zhang Xi / Xue Chen in the ninth. After the Olympic tournament they could achieve more outstanding results than fourth in the Grand Slams in Stare Jabłonki as well as with the third and second place in the Open tournaments in Åland and Bang Saen.

2013 Ukolowa played first with Svetlana Popova, before they again took at the Grand Slams in Corrientes and The Hague with Chomjakowa. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Ukolowa / Chomjakowa reached the second round, where they did against the Germans Ludwig / Walkenhorst and were ranked number nine.