Kelly Schafer
Kelly Schafer 
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| birthday | 8th April 1981 (age 39) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Dundee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Stirling Curling Club, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Alternate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: November 29, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kelly Schafer (* 8. April 1981 in Dundee as Kelly Wood ) is a Scottish curler .
Schafer played at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin on the side of Skip Rhona Martin on the position of third
In 2007, now as the team's skip, she won the bronze medal at the World Curling Championships in Aomori . In the same year she won the silver medal at the European Curling Championships in Füssen .
In February 2010, Schafer took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (Canada) as a member of the British team . The team took seventh place.
Schafer won the silver medal at the World Curling Championships on March 28, 2010 with the Scottish team led by Skip Eve Muirhead . In the Canadian Swift Current , the team lost in the final against Team Germany around Skip Andrea Schöpp with 6: 8 stones after the additional end.
Schafer is currently playing as a substitute for Eve Muirhead's team. With this team, she won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships , as well as at the 2016 European Championships . It won the gold medal at the 2017 European Championships , but was not used. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , she came fourth as a substitute for Team Great Britain.
Private life
Schafer is married and has his son and two stepchildren. She met her Canadian husband at the 2010 World Curling Championships in Swift Current and moved from Scotland to Saskatchewan in 2011 . After a five-year hiatus, she resumed her active curling career in 2016 after an injury to Anna Sloan to play as a substitute for Eve Muirhead's team. She returned to Canada after the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Web links
- Kelly Schafer on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Kelly Schafer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Athlete Profile - Kelly Schafer. In: olympic.org. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Schafer, Kelly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Kelly (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundee |