High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yekaterina Alexandrovna Lobysheva (Russian: ) (born March 13 1985, Kolomna) is a Russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She's specialized in the distances of 1000 m, 1500 m and Team Pursuit. In the season of 2005 2006 Lobysheva acted for the first time in the European Championships Allaround. After good results on the short distances (1st on 500 m, 4th on 1500 m) she finished sixth in the rankings. Thus she placed herself for the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in 2006 where she, despite her good 500 m (second) did not qualify for the final 4th distance. She was the thirteenth in the ranking. In the same year she won three matches at the 1500 World Cup in the B group. She placed herself for the 1000 and 1500 meters at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin. She became the eleventh and sixth respectively.