Liudmila Belyakova

Liudmila Belyakova
Born August 12, 1994
Moscow, Russia
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight 141 lb (64 kg; 10 st 1 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
RWHL team Tornado Moscow Region
National team  Russia
Playing career 2009present

Liudmila Viktorovna Belyakova (Russian: Людмила Викторовна Белякова; born August 12, 1994) is a national and youth women's ice hockey player, and a Russian Master of Sports of International Class. She can play as both a forward and a defender. She has been the captain of the Spartak Moscow women's team.

She played for the U18 national Russian youth team at 12 years old, and was invited to the national team of Russia for first time at the age of 15.

Her debut with the first national team took place on September 4, 2009 in the town of Trencin in a match against the national team of Slovakia.[1]

She has played 28 games for the youth team of Russia, scoring 30 goals and making 11 assists.[2] For the national team she has played 53 games, with 22 goals and 7 assists.

She was included in the list of candidates for Russia's national team at the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver.[3]

She is the winner of 20 individual cups and 55 medals in various denominations including:

At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Belyakova was part of Russia's gold medal winning team, handing Canada its first-ever loss in FISU women's ice hockey.

References

  1. "Women's Russian National U18 Ice Hockey Team". Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  2. "Athletes for Ice Hockey - 2010 Olympics - SI.com". CNN. Sports Illustrated. 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  3. "IIHF World Womens U18 Championship Division 1 - Scoring Leaders" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2012.

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