Valeria Merkusheva

Russian ice hockey goaltender

Ice hockey player

Valeria Merkusheva
Валерия Меркушева

Born

(1999-09-20) 20 September 1999 (age 24)
Moscow, Russia

Height

1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)

Position

Goaltender

Catches

Left

ZhHL team
Former teams

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
Dinamo St. Petersburg
SKSO Yekaterinburg

National team

Russia

Playing career

2016–present

Medal record

Universiade

	2019 Krasnoyarsk	Ice hockey

Valeria Sergeyevna Merkusheva (Russian: Валерия Сергеевна Меркушева, also romanized Valeriya Sergeevna; born 20 September 1999) is a Russian ice hockey goaltender and member of the Russian national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

Merkusheva represented Russia at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2019 Winter Universiade. She played under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.^[1]^[2]

References

^ "Состав женской национальной сборной России для участия в чемпионате мира". Ice Hockey Federation of Russia (in Russian). 31 March 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: RUS - Russia" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2021.