Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The medalists in the women's tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Left to right: Canada (silver), Sweden (gold) and China (bronze). Curling is a team sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's tournament was held at the 1924 Winter Olympics before the sport was removed from the official programme until the 1998 Games. [1]
In 1992, as curling awaited full medal status at the Winter Olympics, Lockhart was skip of the team selected to represent Great Britain in the demonstration event at the Albertville Games. The team struggled somewhat, however, and were ultimately edged into sixth place after a final play-off defeat to the Swedish team skipped by Anette Norberg.
Eve Muirhead OBE (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. [2] Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The women's team won gold in 1998 and 2014, a silver in 2010, and a bronze in 2002 and 2006. Their mixed doubles team won gold in 2018. The related ice stock sport (Eisstockschießen in German) was a demonstration event in 1936 and 1964. These events are not considered additional demonstrations of curling. [5] [6]
Swisshelm and her team again qualified to participate at the United States Olympic Curling Trials in 2014, [7] finishing first in the round robin standings and defeating Allison Pottinger in a best-of-three series final to clinch the berth to the Olympics. [8] At the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Swisshelm's team finished last with a 1–8 record ...
The team qualified through the B side at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials [1] to earn a spot at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials and a chance to represent Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics. There, the team finished with a 1–7 record. [24] The team played in the 2022 Ontario Tankard, where they lost in the C qualifier ...
At the 2017 World Championship, their third Worlds in a row, they lost in the bronze medal game against Team Switzerland, skipped by Peter de Cruz. [16] At the 2017 United States Olympic Curling Trials George and his team beat Heath McCormick's team in a best-of-three final series to earn his first trip to the Olympics. [17]
Cory Thiesse (née Christensen; born December 1, 1994) is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota. [2] She currently plays third on Team Tabitha Peterson.She is a three-time defending U.S. women's champion, winning titles in 2021, 2023 and 2024.