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WCT Tallinn Ladies Challenger
The WCT Tallinn Ladies Challenger, also known as the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger is an annual tournament on the women's World Curling Tour. It is held annually in November at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. The purse for the event is € The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists o ...3,000, with the winning team receiving €1,200. Its event classification is 100. The event has been held since 2016 and has been part of the World Curling Tour since 2017. Champions References {{World Curling Tour events Women's World Curling Tour events Curling competitions in Estonia Sports competitions in Tallinn Champions Curling Tour events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Jäggi
Michèle Jäggi (born 22 September 1987) is a Swiss curler. Jäggi has represented Switzerland as a junior curler, and is currently active on the World Curling Tour. Jäggi currently skips her own team. Career Jäggi is a former Swiss junior champion. She first appeared on the international scene at the World Junior Curling Championships in 2006, finishing in fourth place after losing in the semifinals and the bronze medal game. She returned to the World Junior Curling Championships two years after, but failed to make the playoffs, finishing in sixth place. Jäggi began to compete on the World Curling Tour in 2006, making appearances in various European events. She participated in the Swiss national curling championships in 2010, and finished in third place. During the 2011–12 curling season, she broke through with two World Curling Tour wins, at the Kamloops Crown of Curling and the International Bernese Ladies Cup. However, she was only able to repeat her result from the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torild Björnstad
Torhild, also written Thorhild, Thorild Torild, is a Norwegian feminine given name. Notable persons with that name include: *Torhild Aarbergsbotten (born 1969), Norwegian politician *Torhild Johnsen (born 1934), Norwegian politician *Thorild Olsson (1886–1934), Swedish runner *Torild Skard (born 1936), Norwegian psychologist *Torild Skogsholm (born 1959), Norwegian politician *Torhild Staahlen (born 1947), Norwegian opera singer *Torild Wardenær (born 1951), Norwegian poet and playwright *Thorild Wulff (1877–1917), Swedish botanist and polar explorer See also * Tor (given name) * Hild (other) *Torill Torill, also written Toril and Thorill, is a Norwegian feminine given name. It may refer to: * Toril Brekke (born 1949), Norwegian novelist and author * Torill Eide (born 1950), Norwegian children's writer * Torill Eidsheim (born 1970), Norwegian p ..., a related name {{given name Norwegian feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eirin Mesloe
Eirin Mesloe (born November 18, 2000) is a Norwegian curler from Oppdal. She currently skips the Norwegian junior women's curling team. Career Mesloe joined the Norwegian junior women's curling team as the alternate for the 2017–18 season. In her first season with the team, skipped by Maia Ramsfjell, they finished third at the 2018 World Junior B Curling Championships. This qualified them for the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships, where they were able to reach the playoffs with a 5–4 record. The team then lost in the semifinal and bronze medal game, settling for fourth place. Because of their high placement, the team earned direct qualification into the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships. There, they finished in seventh place with a 3–6 record, enough to avoid relegation to the B Championship. In 2020, Mesloe moved up to play second on the Norwegian junior team with Ramsfjell still skipping. At the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, the team finished i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailey Duff
Hailey Caitlin Rose Duff (born 24 January 1997) is a Scottish curler from Forfar. She is the 2022 Olympic Champion in women's curling. At the international level, she is a curler, playing lead for skip Eve Muirhead. At the national level, she is a Scottish women's championship bronze medallist (2019), Scottish mixed doubles championship bronze medallist (2015), Scottish junior champion curler (2018) and silver medallist (2016, 2017). Duff was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to curling. Teams Women's Mixed Mixed doubles Personal life Hailey Duff was born and grew up in New Zealand. Some years later her family moved to Scotland. She is from family of curlers. Her father John Duff is a long time curler, and was the runner-up at the 2020 Scottish Senior Championships, and is a bronze medallist with his daughter at the 2015 Scottish Mixed Doubles Championship.) Duff works as an assistant buyer at ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Dodds
Jennifer Carmichael "Jenn" Dodds (born 1 October 1991) is a Scottish curler. She currently plays mixed doubles with Bruce Mouat, representing Scotland and Great Britain. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in women's curling and the 2022 World champion in mixed doubles curling. Career Dodds played second for the Hannah Fleming junior rink that won a silver medal at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships. While attending Edinburgh College, Dodds played on Fleming's team at the 2013 Winter Universiade, placing fourth. Dodds left the Fleming rink in 2014, playing third for Lauren Gray for two seasons. The team won the 2015 Dumfries Challenger Series event on the World Curling Tour. In 2016, she returned to the Fleming rink as her third. The team won the 2018 Scottish Women's Curling Championship and defeated the Eve Muirhead Olympic team for the right to represent Scotland at the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship. There, the team missed the playoffs with a 5–7 record. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Wright
Victoria Wright (born 15 August 1993) is a retired Scottish curler from Stranraer, and 2022 Olympic Champion in women's curling, playing third on Team Muirhead. Career Before playing for Muirhead, Wright curled for Hannah Fleming. She was the alternate for Scotland at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships, where the team won a silver medal. She won the 2018 Scottish Women's Curling Championship as lead for Fleming to qualify for her first World Championship. At the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship, the team struggled, finishing the round robin with a 5–7 record. For the 2018–19 season, Wright joined team Muirhead as the alternate. She played for the team at the first leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup as Muirhead had a hip injury. They finished in sixth with a 2–4 record. She played in her first European Curling Championships at the 2018 European Curling Championships. The team had a disappointing performance, finishing with a 4–5 record and missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. 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. As skip of the Scotland team, Muirhead won the 2011 European Championships in Moscow, the 2013 World Championships in Riga, the 2017 European Championships in St. Gallen and the 2021 European Championships in Lillehammer. She is also a four-time World Junior Champion (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011). A four-time Olympian, she represented Great Britain at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018 and Beijing 2022 in which she was chosen as one of Great Britain's flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony. In Sochi, she became the youngest-ever skip, male or female, to win an Olympic medal. She curls out of the Dunkeld Curling Club based in Pitlochry. She announced her reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Tuvike
Erika Tuvike (born 14 April, 1991) is an Estonian curler. She currently plays lead on the Estonian women's curling team, skipped by Marie Kaldvee. Career Tuvike played in her first international curling tournament at the 2016 World Mixed Curling Championship, playing lead on the team which was skipped by Kaarel Holm. The team finished the event with a 3–4 record in pool play, ranked 21st overall. Tuvike joined the Turmann rink in 2016. In 2017, the team won their first Estonian Women's Curling Championship. The team represented Estonia at the 2017 European Curling Championships, where they finished in third place in the B Division. The team won the Estonian Women's National Championship once again in 2018. They represented Estonia at the 2018 European Curling Championships, where they finished in second place in the B Division. This qualified Estonia for the 2019 World Qualification Event for a chance to make it to the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship. At the Qualific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heili Grossmann
Heili Grossmann (born 23 November 1984 in Tartu) is an Estonian curler from Tallinn, Estonia. She is currently the alternate on the Estonian women's curling team, skipped by Marie Kaldvee. Career Grossmann competed in her first international event at the 2017 European Curling Championships where she served as alternate for the Marie Turmann rink. There, the team won the bronze medal in the B Division. Grossmann joined the Turmann team the following season as their second. Team Turmann had won the 2018 Estonian Women's Curling Championship, qualifying the team to represent Estonia at the 2018 European Curling Championships At the 2018 Euros, the team finished second in the B Division, losing in the final to Norway's Kristin Skaslien. This qualified Estonia for the 2019 World Qualification Event for a chance to make it to the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship. Grossmann did not compete at the qualification event, as she was replaced by Triin Madisson. In 2019, the team won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerli Laidsalu
Kerli Laidsalu (born 22 January 1995) is an Estonian curler from Tallinn, Estonia. She currently plays second on the Estonian women's curling team skipped by Marie Kaldvee. Career Juniors Laidsalu played in two European Junior Curling Challenge events during her junior career in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, her team finished with a 3–2 record and in 2014, they made the playoffs before losing to Italy in the quarterfinals. In 2015, the Estonian junior women's team qualified for the 2015 World Junior Curling Championships where Laidsalu played second on the team skipped by Marie Turmann. At the tournament, the team finished in eighth with a 2–7 record. Because of their bottom three finish, they were relegated to the 2016 World Junior B Curling Championships in order to earn their spot at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships. At the B tournament, they just missed out on qualifying for the Worlds, losing the bronze medal qualifying game to Hungary. While still in juniors, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Turmann
Marie Kaldvee (born 23 January 1995 as Marie Turmann) is an Estonian curler from Järveküla, Estonia. She currently skips the Estonian women's curling team. Career Juniors Turmann played for the Estonian team at the 2012 Youth Winter Olympics, playing third on the team, which finished in last place. In the mixed doubles event, she was paired with Italy's Alessandro Zoppi. They would be eliminated after losing their only game. After playing in five European Junior Curling Challenges Turmann finally qualified for the World Junior Curling Championships in 2015. Turmann would skip the Estonian team there, with teammates Kerli Zirk, Kerli Laidsaulu and Johanna Ehatamm. The team finished the event with a 2–7 round robin record, missing the playoffs. In her last year of junior eligibility, Turmann led Estonia to a fourth-place finish at the 2016 World Junior B Curling Championships. Women's At 15 years old, Turmann made her European Curling Championships debut, playing lead fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
