Sandra Schmirler
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Full name | Sandra Marie Schmirler | ||||||||||||||||||
birthday | June 11, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Biggar | ||||||||||||||||||
date of death | March 2, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Regina | ||||||||||||||||||
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Playing position | Skip | ||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sandra Marie Schmirler , SOM (born June 11, 1963 in Biggar , Saskatchewan , † March 2, 2000 in Regina ) was a Canadian curler . She was an Olympic champion and three-time world champion. Until her divorce, her name was Sandra Peterson and then took her maiden name again.
Schmirler learned the game of curling in high school . Her first major success was winning the Saskatchewan provincial championship in 1991 in the position of skip. In 1993 she won the Canadian national championship with her Regina- based team and qualified for the world championship in Geneva , where she won the gold medal. She repeated this success in 1994 in Oberstdorf and in 1997 in Bern .
Her greatest achievement was winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In the semifinals, her team prevailed against Scotland after extra time and defeated the surprising Danes around Skip Helena Blach Lavrsen 7: 5 in the final .
A year after her Olympic victory, Schmirler was diagnosed with breast cancer and died a few months later. Over 15,000 mourners attended her funeral. She was posthumously awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit .
literature
Perry Lefko: Sandra Schmirler: The Queen of Curling . Stoddart, 2000, ISBN 0-7737-3275-6 .
Web links
- Sandra Schmirler Foundation
- Sandra Schmirler on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Sandra Schmirler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Schmirler, Sandra |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peterson, Sandra (married name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Biggar , Saskatchewan, Canada |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 2000 |
Place of death | Regina, Saskatchewan |