Anna Hasselborg

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Anna Hasselborg
Curler
Anna Hasselborg.jpg
Hasselborg at the Players Championship 2018
Born
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg

(1989-05-05) 5 May 1989 (age 32)
Stockholm[1]
Team
Curling clubSundbybergs CK,
Sundbyberg, SWE
SkipAnna Hasselborg
ThirdSara McManus
SecondAgnes Knochenhauer
LeadSofia Mabergs
AlternateJohanna Heldin
Mixed doubles
partner		Oskar Eriksson
Career
Member Association Sweden
World Championship
appearances		4 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		1 (2019)
European Championship
appearances		7 (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2021)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2018)
Grand Slam victories6 (2018 Elite 10 (Sept.), 2018 Masters, 2019 Tour Challenge, 2019 National, 2020 Canadian Open, 2021 National)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 North Bay
Silver medal – second place 2019 Silkeborg
World Mixed Doubles Championship
Gold medal – first place 2019 Stavanger
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tallinn
Gold medal – first place 2019 Helsingborg
Silver medal – second place 2016 Renfrewshire
Silver medal – second place 2017 St Gallen
Silver medal – second place 2021 Lillehammer
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Flims
European Mixed Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Kitzbühel
Swedish Women's Championship
Gold medal – first place 2011 Sundbyberg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Umeå
Gold medal – first place 2019 Jönköping
Gold medal – first place 2020 Jönköping
Silver medal – second place 2017 Jönköping
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Örnsköldsvik
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Falun
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Piteå[2]

Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip.[3] In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous holder of the European Curling Championship gold medal, the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship gold medal, and the Olympic gold medal.

Career[]

Junior career[]

Hasselborg made her international debut at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship, playing third for Niklas Edin, winning a bronze medal. In 2009, Hasselborg played in her first World Juniors, skipping Sweden to a 6th-place finish. At the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships, Hasselborg upset the Canadian rink skipped by Rachel Homan in the final by a score of 8–3.

Hasselborg skipped Sweden at the 2013 Winter Universiade, leading her country to a 5th-place finish.

Women's career[]

Hasselborg graduated from the junior level in 2010, beginning to skip a team on the World Curling Tour. In her first season after juniors, her team won the 2011 Glynhill Ladies International.

Hasselborg skipped the Swedish national women's team at the 2014 European Curling Championships, leading her team to a 5th-place finish. This would be her first European Championship appearance.

In 2015, Hasselborg's current team of Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer and Sofia Mabergs came together. The following season, the team won two Tour titles, the 2016 Oakville OCT Fall Classic, and the 2016 Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup.[4] That season, the team also represented Sweden at the 2016 European Curling Championships, where they won a silver medal, losing to Russia's Viktoriia Moiseeva in the final. Later in the season, they represented Sweden at the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship, where they placed fourth.

Hasselborg's rink was selected to represent Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics. In the lead up to the games, the team took home another silver medal at the European Championships, losing in the final of the 2017 European Curling Championships to Eve Muirhead's team from Scotland. A few months later at the Olympics, Hasselborg led her team to a 7-2 round robin record, in second place behind the host Korean "garlic girls" team, skipped by Kim Eun-jung. In the playoffs, Hasselborg knocked off the Muirhead-led British rink in the semi-final, before beating South Korea in the final to win the gold medal. A month later, Hasselborg skipped the Swedish national women's team at the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship, falling to the Canadian team in an extra end in the final, to take home the silver medal.

Hasselborg won her first Grand Slam in the lone women's Elite 10 in 2018, going undefeated through the tournament and defeating Silvana Tirinzoni in the final.[5] A few weeks later, she won her second career Stockholm Ladies Cup. Then, at the 2018 Masters, Hasselborg won her second straight slam, defeating Rachel Homan in the final. The following month, Hasselborg and her team took home the gold medal at the 2018 European Curling Championships, her first gold medal at the Euros, defeating Swtizerland's Tirinzoni rink in the final. Hasselborg lost the world final once again at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship, this time losing to Tirinzoni. She was however victorious at the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with partner Oskar Eriksson. The team secured the number one spot in the playoffs en route to defeating the Canadian pair of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant in the final.

Team Hasselborg began the 2019–20 season at the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard where they defeated Anna Sidorova in the final. They missed the playoffs at the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic after going 2–2 in the round robin. They defended their title at the 2019 European Curling Championships. Down 4–3 in the tenth end of the final to Scotland's Eve Muirhead, Hasselborg made a runback on her final stone to score two and win. In Grand Slam play, Team Hasselborg were the most dominant team on the women's side, winning them the 2019–20 Pinty's Cup. They lost in the semifinal of the Masters to Tracy Fleury before winning the next three Slams, the Tour Challenge, National and the Canadian Open. The team was set to represent Sweden at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship before the event got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7] The Canadian Open would be their last event of the season as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were also cancelled due to the pandemic.[8]

Hasselborg and her team won the first event of the abbreviated 2020–21 season, defeating Raphaela Keiser in the final of the 2020 Women's Masters Basel.[9] Next, they played Team Wranå in the Sweden National Challenge in December 2020, where they lost 17–12.[10] A "curling bubble" was set up in Calgary, Canada in the spring, which hosted a number of events, including the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship and two slams.[11] Team Hasselborg competed in both the 2021 Champions Cup and the 2021 Players' Championship, finishing 0–4 at the Champions Cup and reaching the semifinals of the Players'. The next week, the team represented Sweden at the World's. Through the round robin, Hasselborg led her team to a 10–3 record, qualifying them for the playoffs. After defeating Canada's Kerri Einarson 8–3 in the qualification round, they lost a narrow 8–7 semifinal against the RCF, skipped by Alina Kovaleva. This put them in the bronze medal game, which they lost 9–5 to the Tabitha Peterson rink of the United States.[12] On 4 June 2021 Hasselborg and her teammates were selected as the Olympic Team for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[13]

Personal life[]

Hasselborg is married to Mathias Hasselborg[14] (né Eriksson),[15] and has one daughter.[16] She comes from a family of curlers including father Mikael, uncle Stefan, brother Marcus and cousin Mio.[17] She lives in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm.[18]

Grand Slam record[]

Key
C Champion
F Lost in Final
SF Lost in Semifinal
QF Lost in Quarterfinals
R16 Lost in the round of 16
Q Did not advance to playoffs
T2 Played in Tier 2 event
DNP Did not participate in event
N/A Not a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22
Masters N/A N/A DNP DNP DNP DNP SF SF C SF N/A Q
Tour Challenge N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A T2 SF F DNP C N/A N/A
National N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Q Q DNP QF C N/A C
Canadian Open N/A N/A N/A N/A DNP DNP SF Q Q C N/A
Champions Cup N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A DNP F QF DNP N/A Q
Players' Q DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP SF QF F N/A SF

Former events[]

Event 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Elite 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A C
Colonial Square Ladies Classic QF N/A N/A N/A N/A

Teams[]

Season Skip Third Second Lead
2008–09[19] Anna Hasselborg Agnes Knochenhauer Zandra Flyg
2009–10 Anna Hasselborg Agnes Knochenhauer Sara McManus
2010–11 Anna Hasselborg Sabina Kraupp Agnes Knochenhauer Zandra Flyg
2011–12 Anna Hasselborg Sabina Kraupp Margaretha Dryburgh Zandra Flyg
2012–13 Anna Hasselborg Karin Rudström Agnes Knochenhauer Zandra Flyg
2013–14 Anna Hasselborg Karin Rudström Agnes Knochenhauer Zandra Flyg
2014–15 Anna Hasselborg Agnes Knochenhauer Karin Rudström Zandra Flyg
2015–16 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2016–17 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2017–18 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2018–19 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2019–20 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2020–21 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs
2021–22 Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs

References[]

  1. ^ 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide
  2. ^ "Swedish National Championship: Main".
  3. ^ "From playing Yatzy on tour to the Olympic Winter Games". 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ CurlingZone
  5. ^ "Hasselborg makes GSOC history winning 1st Elite 10 women's title". www.thegrandslamofcurling.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  6. ^ The Canadian Press (March 12, 2020). "World Women's Curling Championship Cancelled". The Sports Network. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  7. ^ "World Women's Curling Championship 2020 cancelled in Prince George, Canada". World Curling Federation. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  8. ^ "GSOC cancels remaining events of 2019–20 season". Grand Slam of Curling. Grand Slam of Curling. March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  9. ^ Video (full game): 2020 Women's Masters Basel - Final - Raphaela Keiser (Switzerland) vs Anna Hasselborg (Sweden) on YouTube
  10. ^ "Winners of the Sweden National Challenge!". Facebook. Team Panthera. December 13, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  11. ^ "Women's Worlds added to bubble". Curling Canada. March 5, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  12. ^ Jackie Spiegel (May 9, 2021). "World Women's Curling Championship 2021: Results, standings, schedule and TV channel". Sporting News. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  13. ^ "SOK tar ut fler idrottare till vinter-OS" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. June 4, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  14. ^ "Mathias Hasselborg". Facebook. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  15. ^ "2020 Continental Cup Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  16. ^ "2021 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
  17. ^ "2020 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  18. ^ "Anna Hasselborg". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  19. ^ "Anna Hasselborg Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 20, 2019.

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