Andrea Schöpp (born 27 February 1965) is a German curler from

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 O ...

. She lectures part-time in statistics at the

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Career

Schöpp is a two-time

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( and ), seven-time European champion (, , , , , , ) and

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

champion (demonstration). Schöpp has skipped every team she has played for in international events - except when she plays at the

European Mixed Curling Championships 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 Champ ...

, 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

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with an extra-end victory over Scotland's

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 bro ...

. Schöpp won a gold medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship as a part of the team skipped by her brother Rainer.

Personal life

Schöpp studied statistics at the

and earned her diploma in 1991. She completed her doctorate in 1996, and has been employed by the University of Munich from 1991.Andrea Schopp's research works , University of Hamburg, Hamburg (UHH) and other places
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Rainer Schöpp Rainer Schöpp is a German curler and curling coach. He is a former European mixed curling champion. Career Schöpp represented Germany in his junior years at the World Junior Curling Championships, with his best finish at the event in in sixth ...

, is also a curler. She was born hours before her longtime teammate,

Monika Wagner Monika Wagner (born 28 February 1965 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany) is a German curler. She currently plays third for Andrea Schöpp, who was born eight hours before her in the same hospital. Wagner has played with Schöpp for most ...

, in the same hospital.

Teammates

Works

*''Alternative Parametrisierungen Bei Korrelierten Bivariaten Binären Responsevariablen''. Vol. 1, Anwendungsorientierte Statistik. 1997.

References

External links

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Andrea Schöpp - Player Profile - Curling - Eurosport UK
Living people 1965 births Sportspeople from Garmisch-Partenkirchen German female curlers Olympic gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers of Germany World curling champions European curling champions German curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants {{Germany-curling-bio-stub