Mili Smith (born 1 March 1998) is a retired Scottish curler from

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. She was the alternate on the British team that won the gold medal at the

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in Beijing.

Career

Juniors

Smith was a member of Team GB at the

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, playing

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on a team skipped by

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. The team finished 5th overall. In the mixed doubles event, Smith was paired with South Korea's

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. They lost their lone match and were eliminated. Smith joined the

Sophie Jackson 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, ...

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

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, defeating perennial winners

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in the final. Team Jackson had committed to play in the 2019 Winter Universiade (which ended just before the World Championships), so Scottish Curling initially wanted to send Muirhead to the

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as Scotland's representative. However, Team Jackson asked for a review of the rules, which stated the winner of the Scottish championship gets to represent the country at the World Championships. The review was successful, and Team Jackson went on to represent Scotland at the 2019 Worlds. They also played in the Universiade, where they finished fourth. At the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship, Team Jackson finished in 10th place with a 4–8 record. She won a gold medal at the

in Beijing as part of Team GB. On 21 June 2022, Smith announced that she would be stepping away from elite level curling. Smith was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to curling.

Personal life

Smith's brother is Kyle Smith who was the skip of the British team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She attended the

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and

Perth Academy Perth Academy is a state comprehensive secondary school in Perth, Scotland. It was founded in 1696. The institution is a non-denominational one. The school occupies ground on the side of a hill in the Viewlands area of Perth, and is within the P ...

with whom she won the Scottish Schools' Curling Championship in 2016. In 2021, she graduated from the University of Stirling with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She lives in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Mili Living people 1998 births Scottish female curlers Sportspeople from Perth, Scotland People educated at Perth Academy Alumni of the University of Stirling Curlers at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Great Britain Curlers from Stirling Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in curling Scottish Olympic medallists Members of the Order of the British Empire