Becca Hamilton
Becca Hamilton 
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| birthday | 12th July 1990 (age 30) |
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 United States
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| society | Madison CC |
| Playing position | Lead |
| Playing hand | right |
| status | active |
| last change: December 20, 2017 | |
Rebecca "Becca" Hamilton (born July 12, 1990 ) is an American curler . She currently plays as a lead in Nina Roth's team .
Hamilton started her international career at the Junior World Championship in 2008 after she had won the national junior championship as third in Nina Roth's team (then Nina Spatola). The team finished eighth at the World Cup. She played her second Junior World Championship in 2011 as a skip of the US team; the team finished fifth. She had previously won the national junior championship again. In 2009 and 2010 she won silver in this competition and bronze in 2012.
At her first World Cup in 2015 , she was a substitute for Aileen Sormunen's (now Aileen Geving) team and finished in tenth place. At the 2017 World Cup , she played as lead in Nina Roth's team and finished fifth. In the same year she played together with her brother Matt Hamilton at the Mixed Doubles World Championship and was tenth there.
Hamilton won the American Olympic Team Trials in November 2017 and took part with her team (Skip: Nina Roth, Third: Tabitha Peterson , Second: Aileen Geving) for the USA in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In December 2017, she and her brother Matt Hamilton also won the Olympic Team Trials for the mixed doubles competition, which was an Olympic discipline for the first time in 2018. In this competition, the two finished in Pyeongchang after two wins and five defeats in the round robin in seventh place. After the positive doping results from Alexander Kruschelnizki and the disqualification of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team , they moved up to sixth place. In the women's tournament she came eighth with the US team after four wins and five losses in the round robin.
Hamilton won the US championship in 2014 with Nina Roth's team; In 2016 and 2017 she won the silver medal with this team. In 2017, she also won the US mixed doubles championship.
Web links
- Becca Hamilton on Worldcurling.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Becca Hamilton. In: Team USA. Accessed December 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Roth rink wins 2018 US Olympic Team Trials. In: Team USA. November 18, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Hamilton siblings to represent US in mixed doubles in PyeongChang. In: Team USA. December 17, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Hamilton, Becca |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamilton, Rebecca (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1990 |