Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Chalmers (née Adams) (born 16 November 1989) is a Scottish curler who was the long time second for

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 br ...

. Representing Scotland, they won the 2013 World Championships and the European Championships in 2011 and

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. Representing Great Britain, they are the 2014 Olympic bronze medallists and finished fourth at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

Career

Chalmers was born in

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and lives in Stranraer and

Stirling Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its me ...

. She has been a long-time member of the Muirhead rink, dating back to her junior career. With Muirhead, she won three gold medals at the

World Junior Curling Championships The World Junior Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competitions for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 19 ...

, winning in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Chalmers, whilst at the

University of the West of Scotland The University of the West of Scotland ( gd, Oilthigh na h-Alba an Iar), formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley, Blantyre, South Lanar ...

also won a gold medal at the

2011 Winter Universiade The XXV Winter Universiade, took place in Erzurum, Turkey between 27 January to 6 February. Erzurum is the city at the highest altitude in Turkey, at , and has over 320 cultural landmarks. Located in Eastern Anatolia Region, it is a city on the ...

, playing second for Anna Sloan. Chalmers stayed with the Muirhead rink after her junior career, except for the 2011 World Championships, when she played second for Sloan, finishing ninth. With the Muirhead rink, she won a gold medal at the 2011 European Championships in Moscow and the 2013 World Championships in Riga. The Scottish world champion team of Muirhead, Sloan, Chalmers and Claire Hamilton, were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.

Personal life

Chalmers is married to Andrew Chalmers and is the younger sister of curler, Kay Adams. Like her longtime team-mate

, she has

coeliac disease Coeliac disease (British English) or celiac disease (American English) is a long-term autoimmune disorder, primarily affecting the small intestine, where individuals develop intolerance to gluten, present in foods such as wheat, rye and barle ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chalmers, Vicki 1989 births Living people Scottish female curlers British female curlers Curlers from Stirling Curlers from Edinburgh World curling champions Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers of Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics European curling champions Universiade medalists in curling Continental Cup of Curling participants Universiade gold medalists for Great Britain Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade