Mirjam Ott
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birthday | January 27, 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Bern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nation | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Davos CC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Skip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ott, Mirjam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |