Ekaterina Koroleva

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Koroleva (; 8 October 1998 – 7 July 2019) was a Russian handball player. She played for Stavropol SKFU and for the women's national team. She was born in Krymsk, Russia.
In 2017 she won at the U-19 European Championships in Slovenia the Silver medal after losing the finale against France. Later the Russian team has lost the medal due to a positive doping test by a team member of Koroleva. 
On 7 July 2019, Koroleva drowned in a swimming accident on the closing day of the 2019 European Beach Handball Championship in Stare Jabłonki, Poland, aged 20.