Tahli Gill | |
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Born | 8 September 1999 |
Team | |
Skip | Tahli Gill |
Third | Kirby Gill |
Second | Oh Sun-yun |
Lead | Lucy Militano |
Alternate | Ivy Militano |
Mixed doubles partner | Dean Hewitt |
Curling career ![]() | |
Member Association | ![]() |
World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 5 (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2018) |
Olympic appearances | 1 (2022) |
Tahli Gill (born 8 September 1999) is an Australian curler who resides in Brisbane. [2] She currently skips her own team and plays mixed doubles with partner Dean Hewitt.
Gill started curling at age 11. [2] Her mother Lynette is also a curler, [3] as well as Tahli's sisters Kirby and Jayna. The four Gills sometimes play together, such as when they, along with Laurie Weeden, won the 2018 Australian Women's Championship. [4] They then represented Australia at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Championship, where they finished in sixth place out of the seven teams. [5]
At the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt made it to the semifinals before being eliminated by Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson. In the bronze medal match, they again lost to John Shuster and Cory Christensen from the United States. [6] Their fourth-place finish is the best finish ever for an Australian team at any world curling championship. [3]
Gill focused on mixed doubles for the 2019–20 season, placing second at the New Zealand Winter Games and winning the WCT Pacific Ocean Cup, a World Curling Tour (WCT) event. [7] Gill and Hewitt were qualified for the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
At the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event in December 2021, Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt made history when they won qualification to the mixed doubles tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics. [8]
Outside of curling, Gill worked in a gelateria and is currently[ when? ] a student. [9] She attended the Queensland University of Technology. [10]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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2011–12 | Victoria Wilson | Marlene Corgat-Taylor | Shontelle Walker | Tahli Gill | Lynette Gill | 2012 PAJCC (5th) | |
2012–13 | Victoria Wilson | Marlene Corgat-Taylor | Kelsey Hamsey | Tahli Gill | Samantha Jeffs | Lynette Gill | 2013 PAJCC (5th) |
2013–14 | Victoria Wilson | Samantha Jeffs | Tahli Gill | Kirby Gill | Ivy Militano | Lynette Gill | 2014 PAJCC (5th) |
2014–15 | Victoria Wilson | Samantha Jeffs | Tahli Gill | Kirby Gill | Ivy Militano | Lynette Gill | 2015 PAJCC (5th) |
2015–16 | Samantha Jeffs | Tahli Gill | Ivy Militano | Kirby Gill | Jayna Gill | Lynette Gill | 2016 WJBCC (18th) |
2016–17 | Samantha Jeffs | Tahli Gill | Ivy Militano | Kirby Gill | Jayna Gill | Lynette Gill | 2017 WJBCC (21st) |
2017–18 | Tahli Gill (fourth) | Samantha Jeffs (skip) | Ivy Militano | Kirby Gill | Jayna Gill | Lynette Gill | 2018 WJBCC (20th) |
2018–19 | Tahli Gill | Laurie Weeden | Lynette Gill | Kirby Gill | Jayna Gill | Ken Macdonald (PACC) | AWCC 2018 ![]() PACC 2018 (6th) |
Tahli Gill | Ivy Militano | Jayna Gill | Kirby Gill | Lynette Gill | 2019 (Jan) WJBCC (16th) | ||
2019–20 | Tahli Gill | Kirby Gill | Oh Sun-yun | Veronica Johns | Lucy Militano | Lynette Gill | 2019 (Dec) WJBCC (16th) |
2022–23 | Tahli Gill | Kirby Gill | Oh Sun-yun | Lucy Militano | Ivy Militano |
Season | Female | Male | Coach | Events |
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2018–19 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | Pete Manasantivongs | 2019 WMDCC (4th) |
2019–20 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | ||
2020–21 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | Pete Manasantivongs | 2021 WMDCC (13th) |
2021–22 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | John Morris (OQE), Pete Manasantivongs | OQE 2021 ![]() WOG 2022 (10th) 2022 WMDCC (11th) |
2022–23 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | Laura Walker | 2023 WMDCC (8th) |
2023–24 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | AMDCC 2023 ![]() |
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