| Laurie Weeden | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Team | |
| Curling club | Queensland CC [1] |
| Skip | Tahli Gill |
| Third | Laurie Weeden |
| Second | Lynette Gill |
| Lead | Kirby Gill |
| Alternate | Jayna Gill |
| Career | |
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 2 (2014, 2016) |
| Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 5 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2018) |
Laurie Weeden (born in Toronto, Ontario) is an Australian female curler originally from Canada.
She works for Australian Curling Federation as secretary. [2]
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–09 | Kim Forge | Sandy Gagnon | Lynette Gill | Laurie Weeden | Madeleine Wilson | Janice Mori, Jennifer Coker | PCC 2008 (5th) |
| 2009–10 | Kim Forge | Laurie Weeden | Lynette Gill | Madeleine Wilson | NZWG 2009 (5th) PCC 2009 (5th) | ||
| 2010–11 | Kim Forge | Laurie Weeden | Lynette Gill | Madeleine Wilson | Janice Mori | PCC 2010 (5th) | |
| 2012–13 | Laurie Weeden (fourth) | Kim Forge (skip) | Lynette Gill | Blair Murray | Janice Mori | PACC 2012 (4th) | |
| 2018–19 | Tahli Gill | Laurie Weeden | Lynette Gill | Kirby Gill | Jayna Gill | Ken Macdonald (PACC) | AWCC 2018  [3] PACC 2018 (6th) |
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | Laurie Weeden (Fourth) | Ali Cameron | Lynette Gill | Jim Hansen | AMxCC 2018 (6th) [4] |
| Season | Female | Male | Coach | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–14 | Laurie Weeden | Ian Palangio | Carlee Millikin | WMDCC 2014 (12th) |
| 2014–15 | Laurie Weeden | Ian Palangio | AMDCC 2014  | |
| 2015–16 | Laurie Weeden | Ian Palangio | AMDCC 2015 [5] WMDCC 2016 (31st) |
Joseph Polo is an American curler who is best known for winning a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and being the alternate on the gold-medal winning United States men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Polo was raised in Floodwood, Minnesota before moving to Cass Lake. He learned to curl in nearby Bemidji at the age of 10 in the Bemidji Curling Club's Sunday Night Junior League.
Oskar Ingemar Eriksson is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays third for the Niklas Edin rink. He is the first curler in history to win four Olympic medals – gold, silver, and two bronze – and the first to secure two Olympic medals in different curling disciplines in the same Olympic Games. He is also a six-time World Men's Curling Champion, seven-time European Men's Curling Champion, and the first curler in history to win three gold medals in major international curling championships in a single calendar year – the World Men's Curling Championship, the European Curling Championship, and the World Mixed Doubles Championship. Having also won two World Mixed Doubles Championship medals, he is the first and the only curler to have seven World Curling Championship gold medals in the senior men's division and has won twelve World Curling Championship medals overall in that division. He also holds the record for most gold medals in international competitions as recognized by the World Curling Federation. He is the only member of Team Sweden to have competed in all of the World Men's Curling Championships from 2011 to 2021. He won medals in all but one of these championships, as well as playing in multiple positions – as skip, third, second, and as an alternate. In 2022, Eriksson and his teammates also became the first men's team in history to win four consecutive World Men's Curling Championships, with Eriksson and Niklas Edin becoming the first and only two curlers in history to have six career gold World Men's Curling Championship medals.
The World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments featuring the world's best teams of mixed doubles curlers.
The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's and women's versions of junior and senior championships. There is also a world championship for wheelchair curling. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's started in 1979. The mixed doubles championship was started in 2008. Since 2005, the men's and women's championships have been held in different venues, with Canada hosting one of the two championships every year: the men's championship in odd years, and the women's championship in even years. Canada has dominated both the men's and women's championships since their inception, although Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Scotland, the United States, Norway and China have all won at least one championship.
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Cory Thiesse is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota. She is currently the defending U.S. champion skip, and represented her country at the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship. Christensen was one of the top junior women's curlers in the United States, playing in six national junior championships and winning four of them. She was the alternate on Nina Roth's 2018 United States Olympic team.
Australian Curling Federation is the governing body for the sport of curling in Australia.
Anna Kubešková is a Czech curler from Prague. She currently skips the Czech Republic National team.
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Chiaki Matsumura is a Japanese curler from Nagano. She is the alternate of the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2017 and 2019. She also won the championship three times with the former Chubu Electric team from 2012 to 2014. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's Curling Championship and three times at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, winning a silver medal in both 2012 and 2019.
Kim Forge is an Australian female curler originally from Canada.
The 2015 Australian Mixed Doubles Curling Championships was held from October 1 to 4, 2015 at the Naseby Curling Club in Naseby, New Zealand. The winners of this championship were represent Australia at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
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The Australian Mixed Curling Championship is the national curling championship for mixed curling in Australia. The winners of the tournament will represent Australia at the World Mixed Curling Championship. Event organizer is Australian Curling Federation.
The 2019–20 curling season began in June 2019 and was scheduled to end in May 2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic declared in March 2020 resulted in the cancellation of events and the premature ending of the season.
Tahli Gill is an Australian curler who resides in Brisbane. She currently skips her own team and plays mixed doubles with partner Dean Hewitt.
The 2020–21 curling season began in August 2020 and ended in May 2021.
The 2021–22 curling season began in June 2021 and ended in May 2022.
Yves Hess is a Swiss curler from Zug.
The 2022–23 curling season began in June 2022 and will end in May 2023.
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