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Sophie Jackson (waterpolo)
Sophie Jackson (born 22 July 1996, in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler. She currently plays lead on Team Rebecca Morrison. Career Juniors Jackson twice skipped Team Scotland at the World Junior Curling Championships. Her first was in 2016, when she led her team of Naomi Brown, Rachael Halliday and Rachel Hannen to a 2-7 record. This relegated Scotland to the World Junior-B Curling Championships for the following season. In 2017, she once again skipped the Scottish junior team. She and teammates of Brown, Mili Smith and Sophie Sinclair won the Junior B championships, earning the right to represent Scotland at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. At the World Juniors, her team continued her winning ways, finishing the round robin tied with Sweden's Isabella Wranå rink for first with a 7-2 record. In the playoffs, she lost to Sweden in the 1 vs. 2 game, beat Canada in the semifinal, but lost again to Sweden in the final to claim the silver medal. Jackson was invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries
Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the Anglo-Scottish border and just away from Cumbria by air. Dumfries is the county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. Before becoming King of Scots, Robert the Bruce killed his rival the Red Comyn at Greyfriars Kirk in the town on 10 February 1306. The Young Pretender had his headquarters here during a 3-day sojourn in Dumfries towards the end of 1745. During the Second World War, the bulk of the Norwegian Army during their years in exile in Britain consisted of a brigade in Dumfries. Dumfries is nicknamed ''Queen of the South''. This is also the name of the town's professional football club. People from Dumfries are known colloquially in Scots language as ''Doonhamers''. Toponymy There are a number of theories on the etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Mixed Curling Championship
The World Mixed Curling Championship is the world championship for mixed curling. It is held annually in the autumn, and replaced the European Mixed Curling Championship The European Mixed Curling Championship was a mixed curling tournament held annually in the autumn for European nations. The first tournament was held in 2005. The European Mixed Curling Championship was replaced with a World Mixed Curling Champi .... Results The results are listed as follows: All-time Medal Table ''As of 2022 World Mixed Curling Championship'' References External linksWorld Curling Federation {{Main world championships Mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 Curling World Cup – Third Leg
The Third Leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup took place from January 30 to February 3, 2019 at the Jönköping Curling Club in Jönköping, Sweden. Korea's Kim Min-ji (curler), Kim Min-ji defeated Sweden's Anna Hasselborg in the women's final. Canada's Matt Dunstone defeated Sweden's Niklas Edin in the men's final. Canada's Kadriana Sahaidak and Colton Lott beat Norway's Kristin Skaslien and Thomas Ulsrud for mixed doubles gold. Format Curling World Cup matches have eight ends, rather than the standard ten ends. Ties after eight ends will be decided by a shoot-out, with each team throwing a stone and the one closest to the button winning. A win in eight or fewer ends will earn a team 3 points, a shoot-out win 2 points, a shoot-out less 1 point, and 0 points for a loss in eight or fewer ends. Each event will have eight teams in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournament. The teams will be split into two groups of four, based on the Curling World Cup rankings, whereby the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2018 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 17–25 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The format of the tournament was changed this year, with 13 teams qualifying for the tournament (as opposed to 12 in previous years), and the top 6 teams from round-robin play will qualify for the playoffs (rather than 4). The playoff system were single-knockout, where the top two teams received a bye while the remaining four played the first round. The event was won by Canada's Jennifer Jones rink from Winnipeg; the second world championship for the 2014 Olympic gold medalists. Off the ice, the event was a success and set an attendance record for a women's world championship held in Canada. Jennifer Jones was complimentary of the fans, saying she had never played in a louder arena. Qualification The following nations are qualified to participate in the 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Flemming
Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a family name of Irish origin Places United States * Hannah, Georgia * Hanna City, Illinois * Hanna, Indiana * Hanna, Louisiana * Hannah, Michigan * Hanna, Missouri * Hannah, North Dakota * Hanna, Oklahoma * Hannah, South Carolina * Hanna, South Dakota * Hanna, Utah * Hanna, West Virginia * Hanna, Wyoming * Hannah Run, a stream in Ohio Elsewhere * Hanna, Alberta, Canada, a town * Hannah, a small village in Hannah cum Hagnaby, a civil parish in Lincolnshire, England * Hana, Iran, a city in Isfahan Province * Hanna, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Haná (German spelling: Hanna), an ethnic region in Moravia, Czech Republic * Hannah Island (Greenland) * Hanna Lake, a lake near Quetta, Pakistan Ships * , a destroyer escort acquired by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2018 World Junior Curling Championships was held from March 3 to 10 at Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the .... Men Teams Men's teams Round Robin Standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round Robin Results Draw 1 ''Saturday, March 3, 14:00'' Draw 2 ''Sunday, March 4, 9:00'' Draw 3 ''Sunday, March 4, 19:00'' Draw 4 ''Monday, March 5, 14:00'' Draw 5 ''Tuesday, March 6, 9:00'' Draw 6 ''Tuesday, March 6, 19:00'' Draw 7 ''Wednesday, March 7, 14:00'' Draw 8 ''Thursday, March 8, 9:00'' Draw 9 ''Thursday, March 8, 19:00'' Playoffs Semifinal ''Friday, March 9, 19:00'' Bronze Medal Game ''Saturday, March 10, 14:00'' Final ''Saturday, March 10, 14:00'' Women Teams Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Wranå
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Career Juniors Wranå has skipped the Swedish team in four World Junior Curling Championships, in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, Fanny Sjöberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin, Sjöberg and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at it in 2017 when her and teammates Wåhlin, de Val and Sjöberg won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mili Smith
Mili Smith (born 1 March 1998) is a retired Scottish curler from Perth. She was the alternate on the British team that won the gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Career Juniors Smith was a member of Team GB at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, playing lead on a team skipped by Ross Whyte. The team finished 5th overall. In the mixed doubles event, Smith was paired with South Korea's Hong Yun-jeong. They lost their lone match and were eliminated. Smith joined the Sophie Jackson junior rink in 2016. In 2017, the Jackson team won the World Junior B championships, earning the right to represent Scotland at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. At the World Juniors, the team won the silver medal. Women's The Jackson junior team continued to play together following their junior career. In 2019, the team was invited to play in the third leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, where they finished with a 2–4 record. Two weeks later, the team won the 2019 Scotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 have not already qualified for the World Junior Championships. The competition originally was established in 1999, then was replaced after the 2003-04 season with the European Junior Curling Challenge and Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships. In 2016, the Junior-B Championships were brought back to replace the European and Pacific-Asia Junior Championships. The 2021 World Junior-B Championships were scheduled to be held in Lohja, Finland, but in September 2020 the World Curling Federation announced they would be cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respirator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Hannen
Rachel Hannen (born 27 January 1995 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish curler. Teams Women's Mixed Mixed doubles Personal life Her mother Isobel is a 1985 World silver medallist curler and also coaches. Her grandmother Isobel Torrance Isobel Torrance is a Scotland, Scottish curling, curler. She is a . Teams Women's Mixed References External links * Living people Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotlan ... is a and two-time Scottish women's champion curler. References External links *Rachel Hannen - British Universities & Colleges Sport(web archive)Rachel Hannen Athlete Profile - British Curling(.DOCX) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Brown
Naomi Brown (born 19 December 1996 in Stranraer) is a Scottish curler. Career Juniors Brown has represented Team Scotland four times as a third at the World Junior Curling Championships. She played third for the Gina Aitken rink at the 2014 and 2015 World Junior Curling Championships, finishing 8th in 2014 and winning a silver medal in 2015. Brown then joined the Sophie Jackson junior team. The team finished in 9th at the in 2016, relegating Scotland to the World Junior-B Curling Championships for the following season. In 2017, the team won the Junior B championships, earning the right to represent Scotland at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. At the World Juniors, the team won the silver medal, the second career World Junior silver for Brown. Women's The Jackson junior team continued to play together following their junior career. In 2019, the team was invited to play in the third leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, where they finished with a 2-4 recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2016 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 5 to 13 at the Tårnby Curling Club in Copenhagen, Denmark. Men Teams Round-robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' is not able to be relegated due to their hosting of the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships, so therefore the next lowest ranked team, is relegated to the 2017 "B" Championships Round-robin results All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+01). Draw 1 ''Sunday, March 6, 14:00'' Draw 2 ''Monday, March 7, 9:00'' Draw 3 ''Monday, March 7, 19:00'' Draw 4 ''Tuesday, March 8, 14:00'' Draw 5 ''Wednesday, March 9, 9:00'' Draw 6 ''Wednesday, March 9, 19:00'' Draw 7 ''Thursday, March 10, 14:00'' Draw 8 ''Friday, March 11, 9:00'' Draw 9 ''Friday, March 11, 19:00'' Playoffs 1 vs. 2 ''Saturday, March 12, 14:00'' 3 vs. 4 ''Saturday, March 12, 14:00'' Semifinal ''Saturday, March 12, 19:00'' Bronze-medal game ''Sunday, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
