Matt Hamilton (curler)

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Matt Hamilton Curling
DSS at 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang - Matt and Becca Hamilton (cropped) .jpg
birthday 19th February 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Madison
Career
nation United StatesUnited States United States
society Madison CC
Playing position Second
Playing hand right
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2018 Pyeongchang
World Curling Federation World Curling Championships
bronze 2016 Basel
Junior World Curling ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2008 Östersund
bronze 2009 Vancouver
last change: February 24, 2018

Matthew "Matt" Hamilton (born February 19, 1989 in Madison ) is an American curler . He currently plays second in John Shuster's team .

Hamilton began his international career at the 2008 Junior World Championship , where he played as a lead in Chris Plys' team and won the gold medal. At the Junior World Championships in 2009 he was able to achieve a place on the podium again with the bronze medal.

At his first World Cup in 2015 , he played second in the team led by John Shuster and came in fifth. The following year he came in third place with the American team around Shuster. In the game for third place, the Americans defeated Japan with Skip Yūsuke Morozumi . At the 2017 World Cup , he returned to the game for third place, but lost to the Swiss team around Peter de Cruz .

At the US Championships, he won gold medals in 2015 and 2017, and silver medals in 2014 (with Skip Craig Brown ) and 2016.

Hamilton won the American Olympic Team Trials  with John Shuster's team in November 2017  and will  participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics  in  Pyeongchang for the USA with Shuster, Tyler George  (third) and John Landsteiner (lead)  . In December 2017, he and his sister Becca Hamilton also won the  Olympic Team Trials for the mixed doubles competition, which was an Olympic discipline for the first time in 2018. The two finished in Pyeongchang after two wins and five losses 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. At the men's tournament he won the gold medal with the team led by John Shuster. After five wins and four defeats in the round robin, the Americans moved into the final round. In the semifinals they defeated Canada with Skip Kevin Koe and in the final they beat Sweden with Skip Niklas Edin 10: 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Matt Hamilton - Biography. In: Team USA. Retrieved December 27, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Team Shuster wins Men's National Championship! (No longer available online.) In: USA Curling Nationals. February 18, 2017, archived from the original on December 28, 2017 ; accessed on December 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usacurlingnationals2017.com
  3. ↑ Team Clark takes title as USA Curling National Championships wraps up in Jacksonville. In: Jacksonville.com. February 13, 2016, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  4. ^ Shuster rink heading to South Korea. In: Team USA. November 18, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hamilton siblings to represent US in mixed doubles in PyeongChang. In: Team USA. December 17, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American curler
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1989