Mirjam Ott

Mirjam Ott
birthday	January 27, 1972
place of birth	Bern
Career
nation	Switzerland
society	Davos CC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	retired
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 3 × 4 × SCA Championships Elite 7 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City silver 2006 Turin World Curling Championship bronze 2008 Vernon gold 2012 Lethbridge European Curling Championship gold 1996 Copenhagen bronze 2001 Vierumäki silver 2004 Sofia silver 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen bronze 2006 Basel gold 2008 Örnsköldsvik silver 2009 Aberdeen bronze 2010 Champéry bronze 2013 Stavanger SCA Championships Elite gold 1996 gold 2004 gold 2006 gold 2008 gold 2009 gold 2011 Gstaad gold 2012 Gstaad silver 2013 Schaffhausen
last change: February 20, 2014

Mirjam Ott (born January 27, 1972 in Bern ) is a former Swiss curler . She played for the Davos Curling Club.

She started curling at the age of ten. Her first major tournament was the European Championship in Copenhagen in 1996 , where she won the gold medal straight away. At the 2001 European Championship in Vierumäki , Finland , she was third. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was part of Skip Luzia Ebnöther's team and won the silver medal.

At the 2004 European Championships in Sofia , the 2005 European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Ott (as Skip) came second again. In all three tournaments she had to admit defeat to the Swedish team of Skip Anette Norberg . With her second silver medal, Mirjam Ott is so far the only woman in the world who has two Olympic medals in curling. She is also a four-time Swiss champion (1997, 2004, 2006 and 2008).

Together with Janine Greiner , Valeria Spälty and Carmen Schäfer , she won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Curling Championships in Vernon, Canada and the gold medal at the 2008 European Curling Championships in Örnsköldsvik .

At the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen , Ott and her team won the silver medal. The team was the first to complete the Round Robin. The page playoff game against Denmark could be won, but lost the final against Germany 5-7.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was in the small finals with her team and played for the bronze medal. She lost the game for third place against the Chinese team led by Skip Wang Bingyu 6:12. At the 2012 World Cup in Lethbridge , she won the gold medal in the final against Sweden.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she and her team were again in the small final, but lost to the opponents from Great Britain 5-6. Then Ott ended her career and became the trainer of the women's team in Baden around Skip Alina Pätz.

Mirjam Ott is a business economist and lives in Laax and Zurich .

Current team members (Davos iFAS)

• Third Carmen Schäfer
• Second Carmen Küng
• Lead Janine Greiner

successes

winter Olympics

2014 4th place; 2010 4th place; 2006 silver; 2002 silver

World Championship

2012 1st place; 2011 5th place; 2009 5th place; 2008 bronze; 2005 7th place; 1997 8th place

European Championship

2013 bronze; 2012 5th place; 2010 bronze; 2009 silver; 2008 gold; 2007 4th place; 2006 bronze; 2005 silver; 2004 silver; 2001 bronze; 1996 gold

Swiss championship elite

2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2004, 1997

Web links

• Davos Curling Club
• Team Davos iFAS
• Mirjam Ott on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Mirjam Ott in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Mirjam Ott at Swiss Olympians

Individual evidence

1. ^ SRF, accessed November 30, 2014