Ana Arce (born 5 January 1964) is a photographer and former skip of the

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n national women's

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team. She now plays on the

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national team.

Photography

She produced the ''Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006'' featuring

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or semi-nude photographs of women curlers from a variety of countries including

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and

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. The curlers included

Daniela Jentsch Daniela Jentsch (born 15 January 1982), previously known as Daniela Driendl, is a German curler from Füssen. She is the skip of the German National Women's Curling Team. Career Jentsch played in her first international competition in 1997 at t ...

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Kasia Selwand Katarzyna "Kasia" Selwant is the former Polish national curling team lead. In 2005, she posed for a calendar to promote women's curlinShe played in both the 2004 and 2005 European Curling Championships for skip Krystyna Beniger. Poland finished ...

and

Claudia Toth Claudia Fischer (born 24 May 1981 as Claudia Toth) was the Austrian national women's curling team skip from 2004-200 She has played in four European Curling Championships, European Championships, skipping her Austrian team to an 11th-place finish ...

. She produced a second calendar for 2007 which included Christine Keshen,

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and

Jackie Lockhart Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart (née Steele, born 22 March 1965) is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games. She ...

Curling

Arce played in the 2002, 2003 and 2004

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for Andorra. Skipping the team, she placed 17th, 15th and 21st respectively. In 2005, she moved to the Spanish team. Her international debut for Spain was at the

2005 European Mixed Curling Championship The inaugural 2005 European Mixed Curling Championship was held from October 18 to 22, 2005 at the Canillo Ice Arena in Canillo, Andorra. Finland, skipped by Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi (born 23 November 1966 in Karkkila) i ...

playing lead for

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. Spain finished 16th. Her debut for Spain at the happened a few months later. She played third for Ellen Kittelsen, and the team finished 17th. In 2006, with the same skips, Arce placed 20th at the 2006 European Mixed and 17th at the . At the 2007 European Mixed, she placed 21st on De Mollinedo's team. She would not play at the European Championships again until 2009, finishing 19th on Kittelsen's rink. In the meantime she placed 13th at the 2008 European Mixed and 9th at the 2009 event respectively. In 2008, the team was skipped by

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and she was the team's female alternate. The 2009 team was skipped by De Mollinedo again.Ana Arce Profile on World Curling Federation

References

1964 births Living people Spanish photographers Andorran photographers Spanish female curlers Andorran female curlers Spanish people of Andorran descent People with acquired Andorran citizenship Spanish women photographers {{Spain-curling-bio-stub