Sara McManus
Sara McManus 
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| birthday | 13th December 1991 (age 28) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Gothenburg | ||||||||||||||||
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 Sweden
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| society | Sundbybergs CK | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Third | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||
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| last change: November 26, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||
Sara McManus (born December 13, 1991 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish curler . She is currently playing third in Anna Hasselborg's team .
Career
McManus started her international career at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Anna Hasselborg's team. She officially took part as a substitute player, but was used in most games in the position of lead. The team came in fifth. At the Junior World Championship 2010 McManus appeared again with Anna Hasselborg as Skip and won the gold medal. In 2011 the Swedish junior team was taken over by Sara's sister Jonna McManus as Skip. At the Junior World Championship in 2011 , the team came fourth with McManus in third. At the two following Junior World Championships she played as a skip. In 2012 the team lost in the game for 3rd place against the Russian team. In 2013 , the team finished fifth.
In 2015 McManus played as Skip in the team from the University of Gävle for Sweden at the Winter Universiade 2015 . After losing a match against Switzerland in the game for third place, she finished fourth.
In 2014 she took part in the World Cup for the first time . As a substitute in Margaretha Sigfridsson's team , she was fifth. At the 2015 World Cup , she played second in the Sigfridsson team and came in seventh.
In 2015 she moved to Anna Hasselborg's team, for which she was already a substitute at the 2014 European Championship ; the team finished fifth. Since then, McManus has played as third.
At the European Championships in 2016 she reached the final, but lost to the Russian team led by Viktorija Moissejewa .
At the 2017 World Cup in Beijing , she finished fourth with the Swedish team after losing the game for third place to the Scottish team of Eve Muirhead 4-6. At the 2017 European Championships in St. Gallen, she and Anna Hasselborg's team lost to the Scottish team around Skip Eve Muirhead after a flawless preliminary round and a 7-3 semi-final win over Italy in the final with 3: 6 and secured the second silver medal.
McManus represented Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics with Anna Hasselborg, Agnes Knochenhauer (Second) and Sofia Mabergs (Lead) and won the gold medal in the final against South Korea with Skip Kim Eun-jung . At the 2018 World Cup in North Bay, Canada, she lost to the Canadian team around Jennifer Jones in the final and won the silver medal. In November 2018 she and the Hasselborg team won the European Championship 2018 by beating Switzerland in the final (Skip: Silvana Tirinzoni ) ; it was her first gold medal in the competition.
McManus plays with the Hasselborg team on the World Curling Tour and has won several tournaments there. In September 2018, she won her first Grand Slam of Curling tournament with the Elite 10 in Chatham-Kent . It was the first victory in a Grand Slam tournament for the Hasselborg team, but also the first victory for a Swedish women's team. In October 2018, she won the second Grand Slam in a row at the Masters in Truro .
Private life
Her older sister Jonna took part in the 2011 Junior World Championships for Sweden. Her father Stuart played as a professional footballer for England and Sweden.
Web links
- Sara McManus on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Team Hasselborg
Individual evidence
- ^ Team Anna Hasselborg, Grand Slam of Curling
- ^ World Junior Curling Championships 2010, World Curling Federation
- ↑ XXVII. Winter Universiade 2015, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2014, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2016, World Curling Federation
- ↑ Scotland women are Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Champions for 2017, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 26, 2017
- ↑ Sara McManus, worldcurl.com
- ↑ Hasselborg makes GSOC history winning 1st Elite 10 women's title. In: thegrandslamofcurling.com. September 30, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ^ Hasselborg wins second straight GSOC title at Masters. In: thegrandslamofcurling.com. October 28, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- Jump up ↑ Athlete Profile - Sara McManus. In: olympic.org. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | McManus, Sara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg |