Mark Nichols (curler)

Mark Nichols
birthday	1st January 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Labrador City ,  Canada
Career
nation	Canada
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin World Curling Championship gold 2017 Edmonton silver 2018 Las Vegas Junior World Curling Championships gold 2001 Ogden
last change: April 10, 2018

Mark Nichols , ONL (born January 1, 1980 in Labrador City ) is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion .

Life

Nichols played from 1999 to 2011 as third in Skip Brad Gushue's team and from 2012 to 2014 as lead or second in Jeff Stoughton's team . Since 2014 he has been back in his previous position on Team Gushue.

Nichols won the Junior World Curling Championships in 2001. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he won gold with Gushue, Russ Howard (second) and Jamie Korab (lead).

In 2017 he won the gold medal at the World Championships in Edmonton with Gushue, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker . The team won all 13 games and beat Niklas Edin's Swedish team 4-2 in the final . For the world championship, the team had qualified as representatives of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador by winning the Canadian championship The Brier 2017. Nichols had previously won two silver medals (2007, 2016) and one bronze medal (2011) at The Brier for this province. He achieved two further medal places in the Stoughton team for the province of Manitoba (silver 2013, bronze 2014).

In 2018, Nichols was able to defend the title at the Canadian Championships with Team Gushue and competed again for Canada at the 2018 World Cup . After a third place in the Round Robin, a victory against the USA (Skip: Rich Ruohonen ) in the qualifying game and against Scotland (Skip: Bruce Mouat ) in the semifinals, the final pairing of the previous year was repeated. There the Canadians had to surrender to Niklas Edin's Swedish team 3: 7 and be satisfied with the silver medal.

Teams

season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead
2002-03	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Jamie Korab	Mark Ward
2003-04	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Jamie Korab	Mark Ward
2004-05	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Keith Ryan	Jamie Korab
2005-06	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Mike Adam Russ Howard (skip)	Jamie Korab
2006-07	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Chris Schille	Jamie Korab
2007-08	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Chris Schille	David Noftall
2008-09	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Ryan Fry	Jamie Korab
2009-10	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Ryan Fry	Jamie Korab
2010–11 *	Brad Gushue	Randy Ferbey (Skip)	Mark Nichols	Ryan Fry
2011 *	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Ryan Fry	Jamie Danbrook
2012–13	Jeff Stoughton	Jon Mead	Reid Carruthers	Mark Nichols
2013-14	Jeff Stoughton	Jon Mead	Reid Carruthers	Mark Nichols
	Jeff Stoughton	Jon Mead	Mark Nichols	Reid Carruthers
2014–15	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Brett Gallant	Geoff Walker
2015–16	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Brett Gallant	Geoff Walker
2016–17	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Brett Gallant	Geoff Walker
2017-18	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Brett Gallant	Geoff Walker

Web links

• Mark Nichols (Curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Team Gushue

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/mark-nichols-1.html
2. ↑ http://www.worldcurling.org/wmcc2017/gold
3. ↑ http://www.curling.ca/2017brier/2017/03/12/newfoundlandlabrador-wins-tim-hortons-brier/
4. ↑ Brad Gushue wins 2nd straight Canadian men's curling championship at 2018 Brier , globalnews.ca, March 12, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018