Vicki Adams

Vicki Adams
Vicki Adams
	Curler
Born	16 November 1989; Edinburgh, Scotland
Team
Curling club	Portpatrick CC, ; Portpatrick, SCO
Skip	Eve Muirhead
Third	Jennifer Dodds
Second	Vicki Adams
Lead	Lauren Gray
Alternate	Vicky Wright
Career
World Championship; appearances	6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
European Championship; appearances	7 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Olympic; appearances	2 (2014, 2018)
Grand Slam victories	6: Players' Championships (2013, 2015, 2016), Autumn Gold (2013), Colonial Square (2014), Canadian Open (2014)
Curling
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
Winter Universiade
Representing Scotland
World Championships
European Curling Championships
World Junior Curling Championships

Victoria "Vicki" Chalmers^[1] (née Adams) (born 16 November 1989) is a Scottish curler who plays second for Eve Muirhead. Representing Scotland, they won the 2013 World Championships and the European Championships in 2011 and 2017. Representing Great Britain, they are the 2014 Olympic bronze medallists and finished fourth at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career

Adams was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lives in Stranraer and Stirling.^[2] She has been a long-time member of the Muirhead rink, dating back to her junior career. With Muirhead, she won three gold medals at the World Junior Curling Championships, winning in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Adams, whilst at the University of the West of Scotland also won a gold medal at the 2011 Winter Universiade, playing second for Anna Sloan.^[3]^[4]

Adams stayed with the Muirhead rink after her junior career, except for the 2011 World Championships, when she played second for Sloan, finishing ninth. With the Muirhead rink, she won a gold medal at the 2011 European Championships in Moscow and the 2013 World Championships in Riga. The Scottish world champion team of Muirhead, Sloan, Adams and Claire Hamilton, were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.^[5]

References

↑ https://www.curlingworldcup.com/events/first-leg-suzhou-china?p=teams
↑ "Muirhead and Smith to skipper Team GB's curling rinks at Pyeongchang 2018". Tean GB. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
↑ "Women's Curling seal first ever GB Universiade Curling Gold". British Universities and Colleges Sport. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
↑ "UWS Student Wins Gold at World Junior Curling Championships" (Press release). University of the West of Scotland. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
↑ Williams, Ollie (20 February 2014). "Britain's women win curling bronze to equal Team GB record". Sport Winter Olympics. BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2014.

External links

Vicki Adams on the World Curling Federation database
Olympic Profile
Vicki Adams on the World Curling Tour database

Vicki Adams on the CurlingZone database

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[1] ttps://www.curlingworldcup.com/events/first-leg-suzhou-china?p=teams

[2] "Muirhead and Smith to skipper Team GB's curling rinks at Pyeongchang 2018". Tean GB. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2018.

[3] "Women's Curling seal first ever GB Universiade Curling Gold". British Universities and Colleges Sport. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2014.

[4] "UWS Student Wins Gold at World Junior Curling Championships" (Press release). University of the West of Scotland. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

[5] Williams, Ollie (20 February 2014). "Britain's women win curling bronze to equal Team GB record". Sport Winter Olympics. BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2014.