[23] On 4 June 2021, the Swedish Olympic Committee announced that Almida de Val and Oskar Eriksson would be their mixed doubles representatives. Second: Kim Cho-hi The team did not qualify for the playoffs but did win one game. Gretsch: My approach used to be, year-round, that Im going to try to be the best Nordic skier I can be and the best triathlete, kind of at the detriment of both. The Womens Tournament tips off on Wednesday, March 15 and runs through Sunday, April 2. The Swedish Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the pandemic, so Team Hasselborg was named as the Swedish Team for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. Canada is the most successful curling nation in Winter Olympic history with 11 medals, including six golds. OHT: Can you talk about how you deal with the relentless pace of being a multisport athlete and how you approach the transitions between sports and seasons? The Swedish team, skipped by Anna Hasselborg, will finish round-robin play with games against the team from the Russian Olympic Committee (1-6, 10th in the standings) (Wed., 7:05 a.m. Switzerland, the No. See full results. You can watch the gold medal curling game between Great Britain and Japan on Saturday night at 8:05pm ET in the United States (9:05am in Beijing). Bronze. The team won their first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic. This article tagged under: curling Team USA Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Beijing Olympics [25] On March 1, 2021, the Swedish Curling Association formally announced the selection of Eriksson and de Val to represent Sweden at the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Sweden's Olympic women's curling champions will defend their title at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after being named in the latest wave of selections. OHT: What did you know about your condition growing up? She signed me up for a camp, she signed me up for a race, and as soon as I started doing that, I fell in love. Skip Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, Vice. [23], Aside from women's curling, de Val also plays mixed doubles with partner Oskar Eriksson. Both of my older sisters played the clarinet, so I was like, Okay, Im gonna play the clarinet. We all played softball growing up that was a really big thing in my town. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Whlin, Elin Lvstrand, Fanny Sjberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. Sweden is second in the table with eight medals. Sign up for the Newsletter. [35], Sweden qualified one woman and one man in luge. 1 Sweden, according to the Olympic curling draws that were. And someone at the adaptive sports organization in St. Louis said theres this adaptive skiing program in Madison that I should check out. The two won their first mixed doubles tour event at the 2020 Mixed Doubles Bern event. The same team went undefeated the next year in the round robin but ended up losing to Canada's Kaitlyn Jones in the final. [16] After the season, longtime lead Fanny Sjberg stepped back from competitive curling and Maria Larsson joined the team as their new lead. Alternate: Kotomi Ishizaki, Skip: Alina Kovaleva RELATED: Everything you need to know about March Madness 2023. The Swedish men's team, led by double Olympic medalist Niklas Edin (SWE), picked up a third successive crown at the 2021 World Championships - with Edin winning his fifth world title. World champions Switzerland and the United States sit atop the round-robin table at the close of play on Thursday (10 February) after reigning champions Sweden, Great Britain and Japan all suffered defeats. The U.S. women finished eighth in PyeongChang, but led by skip Tabitha Peterson ride some momentum into Beijing after capturing bronze at the 2021 worlds, marking the first worlds medal for U.S. women in 15 years. ", "Vndningen: VM damer flyttas till Calgary, Kanada", "Fanny has been playing on the team since 2007. I guess I should preface that with saying when I was a kid, I had a lot more function, so it was a lot easier for me to kind of like fit into mainstream sports. I could play softball. Today, thats probably my favorite moment and my most proud moment because I can think of all of those things that led me there. The Swedish Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the pandemic, so Team Hasselborg was named as the Swedish Team for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. They won one game at the 2018 Tour Challenge, one game at the 2018 National, no games at the 2019 Canadian Open, and one game at the 2019 Champions Cup. But its cool looking back, because it was such a close race, it makes you think about all of those little things, and you can be really proud of those things that that got you there. [28] This qualified them for the semifinals, where they faced Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten of Norway. It really did feel like this culmination of everything that I had done to that point, for like the past nine years of doing adaptive sports. Lead: My Larsen Lead: Dawn McEwen 2 seed after round-robin play. Silver. Great Britain earned it spot in the final after a semifinal rally against defending 2018 champion Sweden. [21] A highlight of the Players' Championship came when Wran lost her broom during one of her shots in the game against Krista McCarville, however, she was still able to deliver the stone.[22]. OHT: You became very proficient at triathlon very quickly. Almida Winquist de Val (born 12 September 1997) is a Swedish curler from Sundbyberg. 1 seed after going 8-1 in round-robin play, fell to Japan. [12] In December, they played Team Hasselborg in the Sweden National Challenge, where they won by a score of 1712. 4 final appearances, 2 wins, a 29-6 Great Britain captured its first gold medal in curling since 2002 and the second women's curling gold medal overall behind a wire-to-wire performance by skip Eve Muirhead 's squad. Great Britain captured its first gold medal in curling since 2002 and the second womens curling gold medal overall behind a wire-to-wire performance by skip Eve Muirheads squad. The effort helped Sweden take down arguably the best team in the womens curling tournament at these Games. Photo by MICHAEL BURNS . I really try to be respectful of those two seasons. The team competed at the 2020 Women's Masters Basel, where they missed the playoffs with a 12 record. Tabitha Peterson made surprisingly short work of ROC 9-3 in the first match of the day before returning to the Ice Cube to beat Denmark 7-5. Vicky Persinger and Christopher Plys of Team USA's mixed doubles curling team defeated Sweden in . The team, which included Patric Mabergs, Johannes Patz and Sofia Mabergs went undefeated in group play, but lost to Scotland in the quarterfinals. Linn Svahn was originally selected as well but was deselected due to injury. the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling is an annual series of events featuring the top-ranked curling men's and women's teams in the world. Also during this season, the team won the 2019 Winter Universiade. [17], In their first event of the 202122 season, Team Wran reached the final of the 2021 Euro Super Series where they lost to Rebecca Morrison. 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Women's curling semi-final - Sweden v Great Britain Friday, February 18: 12:05 GMT If they progress they will play in the final on Sunday at 12:05 GMT, but if they lose to Sweden, they will play . Olympic Bronze 2022 Anna, Sara, Agnes & Sofia This is Team Sweden - This is Team Hasselborg MORE INFO @teamhasselborg For exclusive content, behind the scenes and competitions Follow us featured News News We are the 2022 Olympic Games bronze medal winners! Niklas Edin's Swedish men's curling team was a favorite coming into the 2022 Olympics, and through four games they're proving why. Muirhead brought watching British. [10][11], Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Team Wran only played in one tour event during the abbreviated 202021 season. Gretsch: From a Nordic side of things, I really want to feel like for the full program those six individual races across the Paralympic Games that I put in solid performances, and for me, that means medaling in those six events. From a steal in the first end to a four-point score in the fourth, Eve Muirhead's rink capitalised on Swedish shortcomings to dominate. Oberstdorf International Mixed Doubles Cup, 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, "Almida de Val har siktet p dubbla karrirer och OS", "2019 World Junior Curling Championships", "2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic", "WCT Recap:Sweden's Team Isabella Wran win second event of the season", "Hasselborg, Koe qualify for KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge Playoffs", "Carey escapes with win over Tirinzoni at Boost National", "Winners of the Sweden National Challenge! In the ninth, the Swiss had two stones in the house, and Paetz came up with a takeout and stuck her stone for three to cut Swedens lead to one, 8-7, with one end to play. Round Robin Session 1 Switzerland United States A SCHEDULED Korea Norway B SCHEDULED Internet The two nations picked up three medals between them at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics (which included gold for Canada in the mixed doubles and gold for Sweden in the women's competition), and have a combined 18 medals in curling in Winter Olympic history out of a possible 42! Thats what drew me to it. [32][33][34] Before travelling to Beijing, selected players Emmy Alasalmi, Sara Grahn, Linnea Hedin and Hanna Olsson tested positive for COVID-19 and were replaced by Linna Andersson, Paula Bergstrm, Linn Peterson, and Agnes ker. The team would go on to win the gold medal. Over 40 years of radio broadcast experience. The Womens Tournament will be available on ESPN. I came out of that surgery and never fully regained everything. [16] After the season, longtime lead Fanny Sjberg stepped back from competitive curling and Maria Larsson joined the team as their new lead. Those early games were played on frozen ponds and lochs, using curling stones from the regions of Perth and Stirling. It makes me very proud of them to have got this far and to have proven that they are capable of having Great Britain on their back playing against some of the worlds best. Alternate: Lisa Weagle, Skip: Tabitha Peterson I had all my limbs. I had just learned so many different things throughout the years that I had been doing triathlon, and I felt like everything that I learned was used in that race in order to make that happen. On Her Turf: Tell us a little about your family and growing up in Downers Grove, Illinois. SOC selected Frida Westman. ET) and . PARK CITY, Utah For Kendall Gretsch, winning six gold medals at the recent World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in stersund, Sweden, was terrific, but for the 30-year-old Illinois native, the wins come with an asterisk. So it gave me this opportunity to still have a chance to compete in a sport that was already a Paralympic sport. Wran participates in mixed doubles curling with her brother Rasmus. After you've learned about median download and upload speeds from Gunzenhausen over the last year, visit the list below to see mobile and fixed . The game will be available to stream live on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com. Skip Eve Muirhead will compete in her fourth Winter Olympics, while teammate Jennifer Dodds is also set to make history as one of the first players to represent Team GB at two curling events at the same Games. Medal favourites, athletes to watch, competition format and more! [4], de Val played in the World Junior Curling Championships in 2014, 2017 and 2018 as a member of Team Isabella Wran. Her first two golds came in 2018 in Pyeongchang (sprint biathlon sitting, 12K cross-country sitting), followed by paratriathlon gold in Tokyo in 2021, and gold in the middle-distance biathlon in Beijing in 2022. How did that come about? Live streaming coverage and full replays of every event will be available on Peacocks premium tier. I also kind of joke sometimes that Im like not quite good enough at one thing but I can just be decent at a lot of different things and put it together into something.