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List Of Curlers
This is a list of sportspersons who play the sport of curling, past and present, sorted by nationality. Canadian curlers are further sorted by province. Andorra * Ana Arce Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon/Northwest Territories Wheelchair curlers Coaches only * Amy McAninch * Tom Ward (curler) China Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Hong Kong *Jason Chang * Ling-Yue Hung * Julie Morrison Hungary Ireland * Douglas Dryburgh * Robin Gray (in SCO too) * Johnjo Kenny (John Jo Kenny, John Kenny) (in SCO too) * Peter Wilson * Peter J.D. Wilson (in SCO too) Israel * Leonid Rivkind (in RUS too) Italy Japan Kazakhstan * Viktor Kim * Aleksandr Orlov (curler) (Alexander, Alexandr) (in RUS too) * Abylaikhan Zhuzbay * Sitora Alliya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. The player can induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Millikin
Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin (born 4 July 1957 in North Vancouver (district municipality), North Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Australian curling, curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario. Career In 1986, while still residing in the Canadian province of Ontario, Millikin played second position for Dave Van Dine's Canadian Mixed Curling Championship team. Millikin would later move to Australia and has skipped the Australian team to nine Pacific Curling Championships titles. Millikin has also participated in 11 World Curling Championships. The team's top placements have been sixth place in 1992, 1993 and 2008. Millikin also went to the 1992 Winter Olympics, skipping the Australian team to a seventh-place finish in the demonstration event. Millikin and his team used travel back to his hometown Ottawa to practice and to participate in local curling tournaments. Their team coach was Earle Morris (Canadian curler), Earle Morris, father of John Morris (curler), John Morris. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Powell
Anne Powell (born 20 November 1973) is an Australian female curler. Outside of curling she is a rheumatologist and general physician, and also Director of Physician Education at Alfred Health and Director of CCS's (Central Clinical School of Monash University) Medical Education program. She did her undergraduate training at Monash University so she has a lifetime experience of Monash's medical education system. She started play curling in 2006 when she at the University of Alberta in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ... doing her Research Clinical Fellowship in rheumatology. Teams and events Women's Mixed Mixed doubles References External links * Living people 1973 births Australian female curlers Australian curling champions Place of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahli Gill
Tahli Gill (born 8 September 1999) is an Australian curler who resides in Brisbane. She currently skips her own team and plays mixed doubles with partner Dean Hewitt. Career Gill started curling at age 11. Her mother Lynette is also a curler, as well as Tahli's sisters Kirby and Jayna. The four Gills sometimes play together, such as when they, along with Laurie Weeden, won the 2018 Australian Women's Championship. They then represented Australia at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Championship, where they finished in sixth place out of the seven teams. At the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt made it to the semifinals before being eliminated by Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson. In the bronze medal match, they again lost to John Shuster and Cory Christensen from the United States. Their fourth-place finish is the best finish ever for an Australian team at any world curling championship. Gill focused on mixed doubles for the 2019–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Kate Gill
Lynette "Lyn" Kay Gill is an Australian female curler and curling coach. Teams and events Women's Mixed Mixed doubles Record as a coach of national teams Private life Lynette is from curling family: her three daughters Tahli Gill, Kirby Gill and Jayna Gill are curlers and teammates (and mum Lyn is their longtime coach). They all (with Lynette as a curler on second position) won 2018 Australian Women's Curling Championship and played as Australian national women's team on 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 3 to 10 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The top two men's and women's teams qualified for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship and 2019 World Wome .... References External links * Living people Australian female curlers Australian curling coaches Australian curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Forge
Kim Forge (born 4 May 1971 in Crossfield, Alberta, Canada) is an Australian female curler originally from Canada. Originally from Alberta, Forge went to Australia at early 2000s on a teaching exchange program and never moved back to Canada. She has been the President of the Australian Curling Federation since 2015 and in 2016 was named to the World Curling Federation The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation (ICF), when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made. ... Athletes Commission. As a curler, Forge has represented Australia at four World Mixed Doubles Championships, nine Pacific-Asia Championships and at three World Mixed Curling Championships. Teams and events Women's Mixed Mixed doubles Private life She married with Australian farmer Rod Forge. References External links * * * Living people Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Woloschuk
Mike Woloschuk (born May 9, 1970, in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian- Australian curler. At the international level, he is a two-time curler (, ). Personal life As of the 2007 World Championships, Woloschuk was living in Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South .... He retired from international curling after the 2007 World Men's Curling Championships in Edmonton. Since then, he spent time living back in Canada, USA and he currently resides on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, working as a mining industry executive. Teams and events References External links * Living people 1970 births Sportspeople from Melville, Saskatchewan Australian male curlers Pacific-Asian curling champions Canadian male curlers Curlers from Saskatchewan Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Wade (curler)
Jonathan Wade is an Australian curler. Teams and events References External links * Living people Australian male curlers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Thomas (curler)
Mitch Thomas (born 4 May 1998) is an Australian curler who has represented Australia in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships as well as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 World Junior B Curling Championships The World Junior-B Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel. The championships feature curlers under the age of 21 competing to qualify for three spots in the World Junior Curling Championships. Nations that participate are those which .... References External links * Australian male curlers 1998 births Living people Sportsmen from Queensland Sportspeople from Sydney {{Australia-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Theriault
John Theriault (born 22 January 1960) is an Australian curler. He is originally from Zweibrücken, Germany. Theriault also curled in the Ottawa area before moving to Australia. At the international level, he is a curler. As of 2012, he was a President of the Australian Curling Federation. Personal life As of the 2005 World Championships, Theriault was living in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ..., was married and had four children and worked for Indigo Pacific. Teams and events References External links * Living people 1960 births Australian male curlers Pacific-Asian curling champions Place of birth missing (living people) German emigrants to Australia Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate People from Zweibrücken Sportspeople from Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Tasker
Ricky Tasker (born October 15, 1976, in Forfar, Scotland) is a Scottish-Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...n curler. At the international level, he is a curler. Teams and events References External links * Living people 1976 births Sportspeople from Forfar Australian male curlers Scottish male curlers Pacific-Asian curling champions Scottish emigrants to Australia {{Australia-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Stuart
Brian Stuart (born 21 December 1937) is an Australian curler. At the international level, he is a 1991 curler. He played for Australia at the 1992 Winter Olympics where curling was a demonstration event A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events. Demonstration spor .... There, the Australian men's team finished in seventh place. At the national level, he is a 1991 Australian men's champion curler. Teams and events References External links * *Australian Curling Federation , Facebook('Today we look back at the first Australian Men's curling team at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games...") Living people 1937 births Sportspeople from Melbourne Australian male curlers Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Australia Pacific-Asian curling champions Australian curling cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
