Sandra Schmirler

Sandra Schmirler was a Canadian curler who skipped Canada to Olympic gold at the 1998 Winter Games and won three world championships.

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1998 Winter Olympics: The Winter Olympic Games held in Nagano, Japan, from February 7 to 22, 1998. Schmirler skipped Canada's women's team to curling gold at these Games.
Jan Betker: A Canadian curler who played third on Sandra Schmirler's championship team. Betker called the shots with Schmirler and helped deliver Olympic and world titles.
Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics: The curling competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics, when the sport returned as a full medal event. Schmirler's victory became the defining Canadian result of curling's Olympic return.
Curling: A team sport in which players slide stones across ice toward a target called the house. Schmirler's career and titles came in this precision team sport.
Rhona Martin: A Scottish curler who skipped Great Britain to women's Olympic gold at the 2002 Winter Games. Martin followed Schmirler as an Olympic champion skip four years later.
1993 World Women's Curling Championship: The world championship in women's curling held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1993. Schmirler won her first world title at this championship.
Marcia Gudereit: A Canadian curler who played second on Sandra Schmirler's championship team. Gudereit was a key member of Schmirler's four-player lineup.
Curling at the Winter Olympics: The history and competition of curling as a sport on the Winter Olympic program. Her gold medal helped establish Canada's place in Olympic curling.
Skip (curling): The team member who directs strategy and usually delivers the final stones in an end. Schmirler's role as skip placed her in charge of strategy and crucial shots.
Jennifer Jones: A Canadian curler who skipped teams to Olympic gold in 2014 and multiple world championships. Jones represents a later generation of Canadian championship-winning skips.