Sandra Schmirler

Sandra Schmirler
Full name	Sandra Marie Schmirler
birthday	June 11, 1963
place of birth	Biggar
date of death	March 2, 2000
Place of death	Regina
Career
nation	Canada
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
End of career	1999
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano World Curling Championship gold 1993 Geneva gold 1994 Oberstdorf gold 1997 Bern

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 )