Mina Mojtahedi | |
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Born | 21 March 1973 |
Team | |
Curling club | Hyvinkään Curling / M-Curling |
Career | |
Member Association | Finland |
World Wheelchair Championship appearances | 2 (2013, 2015) |
Paralympic appearances | 1 (2014) |
Mina Mojtahedi (born 21 March 1973 in Tehran, Iran) is a Finnish wheelchair curler. [2] [3]
She participated in the 2014 Winter Paralympics where Finnish team finished on tenth place.
In 2018–2020 she lived in Switzerland and competed in 2019 and 2020 Swiss Wheelchair Curling Championship.
She was born in Iran, her father are Iranian and mother are Finnish. They moved from Iran to Scotland when Mina was at the age of 6.
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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Finland | |||||||
2012–13 | Markku Karjalainen (fourth) | Vesa Hellman (skip) | Sari Karjalainen | Tuomo Aarnikka | Mina Mojtahedi | Osku Kuutamo | WWhCC 2013 (8th) |
Vesa Hellman | Seppo Pihnala | Mina Mojtahedi | Tuomo Aarnikka | FWhCC 2013 | |||
2013–14 | Markku Karjalainen | Sari Karjalainen | Vesa Hellman | Tuomo Aarnikka | Mina Mojtahedi | Osku Kuutamo | WPG 2014 (10th) |
2014–15 | Markku Karjalainen | Sari Karjalainen | Mina Mojtahedi | Tuomo Aarnikka | Vesa Leppänen | Anne Malmi | WWhCC 2015 |
Switzerland | |||||||
2018–19 | Olivier Joseph | Mina Carina Mojtahedi | Laurent Kneubühl | Olivier Godinat | Cedric Fillettaz | Michel Bise | SWhCC 2019 (7th) |
2019–20 | Mina Carina Mojtahedi | Laurent Kneubühl | Olivier Godinat | Olivier Joseph | Cedric Fillettaz | Cathy Crottaz, Michel Bise | SWhCC 2020 (6th) |
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