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2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship
The 2009 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held in Gangneung, South Korea from March 21 to 29. Qualification * (Host country) * (Defending champion) * ( Pacific champion) * (Americas region) * Top 8 finishers from the 2008 European Curling Championships The 2008 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held at Swedbank Arena in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden December 6–13, 2008. In a rematch of the men's A-Group final from the 2007 European Curling Championships, David Murdoch led Scotland to ...: ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** - winner of challenge series vs Teams Round robin standings Round robin results ''All times local (UTC +9 or Korean Standard Time)'' Draw 1 ''March 21, 2009'' Draw 2 ''March 21, 2009'' Draw 3 ''March 22, 2009'' Draw 4 ''March 22, 2009'' Draw 5 ''March 22, 2009'' Draw 6 ''March 23, 2009'' Draw 7 ''March 23, 2009'' Draw 8 ''Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangneung
Gangneung () is a municipal city in the province of Gangwon-do, on the east coast of South Korea. It has a population of 213,658 (as of 2017).Gangneung City (2003)Population & Households. Retrieved January 14, 2006. Gangneung is the economic centre of the Yeongdong region of Gangwon-do. Gangneung has many tourist attractions, such as Jeongdongjin, a very popular area for watching the sun rise, and Gyeongpo Beach. There is an ROKAF airbase south of downtown Gangneung that formerly doubled as a civil airport. The city hosted all the ice events for the 2018 Winter Olympics. History Gangneung was the home of the Yemaek people in ancient times and became the land of Wiman Joseon in 129 BC. In 128 BC, Nam Ryeo, the army officer of Yaekam, punished Wujang of Wiman Korea and became the territory of the Han dynasty. In the 14th year of Goguryeo Muchheon (313), it entered Goguryeo territory. In 639, Silla occupied this place and ruled it as a 'Sogyeong' (). In 658, King Moo-yeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Schöpp
Andrea Schöpp (born 27 February 1965) is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich. Career Schöpp is a two-time World champion ( and ), seven-time European champion (, , , , , , ) and 1992 Winter Olympics champion (demonstration). Schöpp has skipped every team she has played for in international events - except when she plays at the European Mixed Curling Championships, where she usually plays third for her brother, Rainer. Schöpp made her international debut in 1980, at the age of 15. She skipped the German team to a bronze medal at the European championships that year. She also won silver medals at the Worlds in 1986 and 1987 and a bronze in 1989. She continues to curl, although she has had less success in the last decade. Her fourth-place finish at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship was her highest placement since 1996 at the Worlds. She won the in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the Oberbayern region, which borders Austria. Nearby is Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze, at above sea level. The town is known as the site of the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, the first to include alpine skiing, and hosts a variety of winter sports competitions. History Garmisch (in the west) and Partenkirchen (in the east) were separate towns for many centuries, and still maintain quite separate identities. Partenkirchen originated as the Roman town of ''Partanum'' on the trade route from Venice to Augsburg and is first mentioned in the year A.D. 15. Its main street, Ludwigsstrasse, follows the original Roman road. Garmisch was first mentioned some 800 years later as ''Germaneskau'' ("German District"), suggesting that at some po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ane Håkansson Hansen
Ane Håkansson Hansen (born 3 October 1975) is an internationally elite curler from Denmark. She has an MSc in biology and is currently a PhD student in Exercise and Sport Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. She made her World Championship debut in 2007 as the Alternate for Angelina Jensen's Danish team. She would return for the 2008 World Championships and the 2009 World Championships in the same position. She will compete at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as the Alternate for Team Denmark. Teammates 2009 Gangneung World Championships 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games Denise Dupont, ''Fourth'' Madeleine Dupont, ''Third'' Angelina Jensen, ''Skip'' Camilla Jensen Camilla Louise Skaarberg Jensen (born 25 October 1982 in Copenhagen) is a Danish curler. She currently plays on a team skipped by sister Angelina Jensen. Jensen was a member of the Danish team that won a silver medal at the 2007 Worl ..., ''Lead'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Jensen
Camilla Louise Skaarberg Jensen (born 25 October 1982 in Copenhagen) is a Danish curler. She currently plays on a team skipped by sister Angelina Jensen. Jensen was a member of the Danish team that won a silver medal at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship. Later that year, she won a silver medal at the 2007 European Mixed Curling Championship playing third for Joel Ostrowski. She won another silver medal at the 2009 European Mixed Curling Championship with Ostrowski. Personal life As of 2018, Jensen works as a course administrator in technical education, was married and has one son.2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide Team mates * 2007 Aomori World Championships - Madeleine Dupont, ''fourth'' * 2008 Vernon World Championships - Denise Dupont, ''third'' * 2009 Gangneung World Championships - Angelina Jensen Angelina Camilla Jensen (born 23 May 1973) is a Danish curler from Kastrup. Jensen has won two bronze medals in six attempts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Dupont
Denise Kanstrup Dupont (born 24 May 1984) is a Danish curler. She throws third rocks for the Danish national team, skipped by Angelina Jensen. After several years of limited success in the Junior ranks, Dupont joined Dorthe Holm's team and was a member of the silver medal-winning European Curling Championships team in 2002. (Throwing second rocks). The following year, the team won a bronze medal. Her success at the European Championships never translated to Junior success or World Championship success at the time. In 2004, she was promoted to the third position, and the team won another bronze at the European Championships in 2005. She played third in the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy, where they finished 9th — following that, she left the team and joined up with Jensen. The new team succeeded at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship, where they won silver. Denise Dupont returned to the world championships in 2008, where she played third for Angelina Jensen, finishing f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Dupont
Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Denise Dupont (Madeleine's sister), and My Larsen. Dupont has competed in three Olympic Games and 13 World Championships, winning medals at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship (silver) and the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship (bronze). She won a gold medal at the World Junior "B" Curling Championships in 2004 and a silver medal in 2002 at the European Curling championships as an alternate for Dorthe Holm's team. She also won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships. She won two bronze medals at the European Championships, throwing last rocks for Denmark, in 2008 and 2009. At the Olympics, Dupont threw last rocks for her country at the 2010 Vancouver Games, where the team finished in fourth place. She skipped the Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelina Jensen
Angelina Camilla Jensen (born 23 May 1973) is a Danish curler from Kastrup. Jensen has won two bronze medals in six attempts at the World Junior Curling Championships. She won her first bronze in 1993 playing third for Dorthe Holm and won bronze again in 1994 skipping. She had also played on the Danish team at the 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 Junior Championships. Jensen played in her first World Curling Championship in 1994 throwing third stones for Helena Blach Lavrsen. Denmark finished 9th that year. Jensen would not return to the Worlds again until 2006, when she threw lead rocks but also skipped. Denmark finished in sixth place. At the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship, Jensen threw second rocks and skipped, and won her first medal at the Worlds- a silver when she lost 8–4 to Canada (skipped by Kelly Scott) in the final. Jensen and her team represented Denmark again at the World Championships in 2008 finishing 7-4 for 5th Place losing a Tiebreaker to Japan, 2009 winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tårnby
Tårnby () is a town in Denmark, the seat of Tårnby Municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark. It is located approximately south of central Copenhagen on the island of Amager. Neighbouring settlements include the Copenhagen suburb of Sundbyvester to the north and Kastrup to the south. Copenhagen Airport is situated to the east of Tårnby. It includes the islets Saltholm and Peberholm. History There's no clear date for the founding of Tårnby, but archaeological expeditions prior to the building of the Øresund Bridge suggest that the first traces of Tårnby originated around the 12th century around a farm from which the village grew. In the 16th century, Danish King Christian II invited Dutch settlers to Amager. That made Tårnby, like the neighbouring city of Dragør, also have some traces of Dutch history and culture. In 1970, Tårnby also became the administrative division of the adjacent city of Kastrup, as part of a larger reform of the Danish counties. Geography Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Jennifer Clark-Rouire (born May 18, 1975 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler. She currently throws skip stones for her rink out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is best known however as being the perennial alternate for Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated ... at various national and world championships. Clark-Rouire won 2008 the World Women's Curling Championship with skip Jennifer Jones, beating China in the final. Personal life Clark-Rouire owns Storm Catering. She is married and has two children. References External links * 1975 births Living people Canadian women curlers Curlers from Winnipeg World curling champions Canadian women's curling champions {{Canada-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Askin
Dawn Kathleen McEwen (born Askin; July 3, 1980) is a Canadian retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. McEwen is a two-time world champion in curling, having won with Jones at the 2008 World Championships and again at the 2018 World Championships. In 2019, McEwen was named the greatest Canadian female lead in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers. Career McEwen was born at the Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, the daughter of Wayne and Jane Askin (née Machin). She grew up in Ottawa, where she began curling at the RCMP Curling Club at age seven, before moving to the Rideau Curling Club for their junior program. McEwen joined up with Jenn Hanna for the 2003–04 season playing as her second. In 2005, the team won the Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts and lost in the final of the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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