Ina Forrest (born 25 May 1962) is a wheelchair curler selected to be second for Canada's team at the

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and

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, winning a gold medal on both occasions. She has also won a gold medal 3 times in the World Wheelchair Curling Championships, in

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, and

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. She was inducted into the

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in February 2016. She is a member of the Vernon Curling Club in

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Early curling career

She started wheelchair curling in 2004, and won silver in both the 2004 and 2005 Canadian National Wheelchair Curling Championships as a member of the

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wheelchair curling team, before being named in 2006 to the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Team for whom she has since competed, , in the next 9 World Wheelchair Curling Championships (starting in 2007) and the next 3 Winter Paralympics (starting in 2010).

Results

Family

She and her husband Curtis are small business owners. They have three children: Evany, Marlon and Connor.

Footnotes

References

External links

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at the Official Website for the

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in Vancouver 1962 births Living people Canadian women curlers Canadian wheelchair curlers Paralympic wheelchair curlers of Canada Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling Paralympic gold medalists for Canada Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada Wheelchair curlers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Wheelchair curlers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Curlers from British Columbia World wheelchair curling champions {{Canada-curling-bio-stub