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1998 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1998 STAR CHOICE World Junior Curling Championships were held in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada March 21–29. Men's Playoffs Women's Tiebreaker * 11-2 Playoffs Sources {{World Junior Curling Championships 1998 in Canadian curling, J World Junior Curling Championships Curling in Northern Ontario 1998 in Ontario Sports competitions in Thunder Bay International curling competitions hosted by Canada 1998 in youth sport March 1998 sports events in Canada Curling competitions in Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario; its population is 108,843 according to the 2021 Canadian Census. Located on Lake Superior, the census metropolitan area of Thunder Bay has a population of 123,258 and consists of the city of Thunder Bay, the municipalities of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, the townships of Shuniah, Conmee, O'Connor, and Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation. European settlement in the region began in the late 17th century with a French fur trading outpost on the banks of the Kaministiquia River.Brief History of Thunder Bay City of Thunder Bay. Retrieved 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Stöckli
Ralph Stöckli (born 23 July 1976 in Uzwil) is a Swiss curler from Lucerne. Stöckli began a successful curling career at the junior level, winning a bronze medal at the World Junior Curling Championships as an alternate in 1994. In 1996, he was the Swiss skip and they won a silver medal, losing to James Dryburgh of Scotland. In 1997 Stöckli won the gold medal defeating Perttu Piilo of Finland in the final. Stöckli ended his junior career with a bronze in 1998. After a 7th-place finish at the 2002 Ford World Curling Championship, Stöckli won a silver at the 2003 Ford World Curling Championship- losing to Canada's Randy Ferbey in the final. Stöckli was the skip of the Swiss team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The team finished just out of medal contention with a 5-4 record. Stöckli was vice on the Swiss team (skipped by Andreas Schwaller) that won the 2006 European Curling Championship. Stöckli announced his retirement from curling in 2010. Teammates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Weisser
Katja Schweizer (born as Katja Weisser) is a German curler and curling coach. As a coach of German wheelchair curling team she participated in 2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jung Seo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic .... Teams Women's Mixed Record as a coach of national teams References External links * Living people 1978 births German female curlers German curling coaches {{Germany-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Rørvik
Marianne Rørvik (born 2 August 1983) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. She is the skip of the Norwegian national women's team. Rørvik has played in nine straight (1997–2005) World Junior Curling Championships, winning gold in 2004 playing third for Linn Githmark. In 2002, she was added as an alternate player on the Dordi Nordby rink. In 2005, she played second for the team, which included a trip to the 2006 Winter Olympics and a fourth-place finish. In 2006, she was promoted as the team's third, and finally with the retirement of Nordby in 2008, she got to skip the national team. Personal life Rørvik is in a relationship with fellow curler Torger Nergård Torger Nergård, also spelled Nergaard (born 12 December 1974) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo."Torger Nergaard, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 Februar ... and is mother of two children Karine (b. 2010) & Thale (b. 2013). She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audé Bénier
Aude is a department in south-central France named after the river. Aude may refer to: * Aude (river), a river of southwestern France, after which the department is named * the former Catholic Diocese of Aude during the revolutionary republic * Lac d'Aude, a lake of southwestern France ; unrelated * Aude, Estonia, a village in Saue Parish, Harju County, Estonia * 9117 Aude, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997 People Given name * Aude Massot (born 1983), French comic book author Surname * Aude (writer) (born 1947), the pen name of Canadian writer Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot * Dave Audé (born 1969), American producer, house DJ and remixer * Erik Audé (born 1980), American actor, stuntman, and professional poker player * Jorge Aude (born 1946), Uruguayan former football player and manager * Joseph Aude (1755–1841), French writer * Julián Aude (born 2003), Argentine footballer * Rich Aude (born 1971), American former Major League Baseball player * Susan Audé (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, after winning the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials. Career In 1997, Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Röthlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships. The team finished seventh. The following year, Tirinzoni was the Swiss skip at the World Juniors, and she and her team of Michèle Knobel, Brigitte Schori and Martina von Arx finished sixth. In 1999, the same team returned to the Juniors and won the whole tournament for Switzerland. After finishing the round robin in second place with a 7–2 record, Tirinzoni led Switzerland to a semi-final win over Sweden's Matilda Mattsson and a final win against Japan (skipped by Akiko Katoh) to win the gold medal. In 2005 Tirinzoni finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Schmitt
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation." Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness, and despair. In psychology Professor of Psychology Barbara Fredrickson argues that hope comes into its own when crisis looms, opening us to new creative possibilities. Frederickson argues that with great need comes an unusually wide range of ideas, as well as such positive emotions as happiness and joy, courage, and empowerment, drawn from four different areas of one's self: from a cognitive, psychological, social, or physical perspective. Hopeful people are "like the little engine that could, ecausethey keep telling themselves "I think I can, I think I can". Such positive thinking bears fruit when based on a realistic sense of optimism, not on a naive "fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Mattsson
Matilda or Mathilda may refer to: Animals * Matilda (chicken) (1990–2006), World's Oldest Living Chicken record holder * Matilda (horse) (1824–1846), British Thoroughbred racehorse * Matilda, a dog of the professional wrestling tag-team The British Bulldogs Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Matelda, also spelled Matilda, a character from Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'' *Matilda, a comic strip character from ''Dennis the Menace and Gnasher'' * Matilda, a house robot in '' Robot Wars'' * Matilda Wormwood, title character of Roald Dahl's novel ''Matilda'' * One of the main characters from the Finnish game series ''Angry Birds'' Film * ''Matilda'' (1978 film), an American comedy * ''Matilda'' (1996 film), based on Roald Dahl's novel * ''Matilda'' (2017 film), а Russian historical romantic drama * ''Matilda the Musical'' (film) an upcoming Netflix adaptation of ''Matilda the Musical'' Literature * ''Matilda'' (novel), a 1988 children's novel by Roald Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Ewart
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. Statistics Julia was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juha Pekaristo
Juha Pekaristo is a Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ... male curler. At the national level, he is a five-time Finnish men's champion curler (2008, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2020), a 2010 Finnish mixed champion curler and a two-time Finnish junior champion curler (1998, 1999). He started curling in 1993. Teams Men's Mixed References External links * Living people Finnish male curlers Finnish curling champions Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasper Wiksten
Kasper Wiksten (born 9 June 1980, in Hvidovre Municipality) is a Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ... curler. At the national level, he is Danish men's champion curler (2020), Danish mixed doubles champion curler (2020) and a four-time Danish junior champion curler (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000). Teams Men's Mixed doubles Personal life His daughter Natalie Wiksten is also a curler; together they played on (12-y.o. Natalie was the youngest player in history of all "adult" world curling championships) and won gold on 2020 Danish MD championship. References External links * * Wiksten, Kasper , Nordic Junior Curling Tour(as a coach) Kasper Wiksten og - Go-Talent DK Living people 1980 births People from Hvidovre Municipality Danish male curlers Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Copperwheat
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
