Sara McManus

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Sara McManus
Curler
Team Swedens damcurlare - Granada 2015.jpg
, Sofia Mabergs, Cecilia Östlund, and McManus (far right) at the 2015 Winter Universiade
Born
Sara McManus

(1991-12-13) December 13, 1991 (age 30)
Gothenburg
Team
Curling clubSundbybergs CK,
Sundbyberg, SWE
SkipAnna Hasselborg
ThirdSara McManus
SecondAgnes Knochenhauer
LeadSofia Mabergs
AlternateJohanna Heldin
Career
Member Association Sweden
World Championship
appearances		6 (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
European Championship
appearances		6 (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 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
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

Sara McManus (born December 13, 1991) is a Swedish curler from Gävle.[1] She currently plays third on Team Anna Hasselborg. With the Hasselborg rink, she won the gold medal in women's curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career[]

McManus was the alternate for the Swedish team at the 2009 and 2010 World Junior Curling Championships. The team, which was skipped by Anna Hasselborg finished in sixth place in 2009 and won the gold medal in 2010. While McManus was listed as an alternate, the team acted as a five-player team, with McManus throwing lead rocks in most of the team's games. The team was taken over by McManus' sister[2] as skip for the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships where the team placed fourth, with Sara throwing third stones.

Sara took over the team as skip for the 2012 and 2013 World Junior Curling Championships respectively. In 2012, she led her team of , Marina Stener and Sofia Mabergs to a 6-3 round robin finish, which put them in a four-way tie for 3rd place. The team won their tiebreak match against Japan, and their next playoff game against Russia. However, they lost in the semifinal to the Czech Republic and in the bronze medal game in a re-match with the Russians, finishing in fourth place.

At the 2013 Juniors, McManus again skipped the Swedish junior team with Mabergs and a new front-end of Rosalie Egli and Malin Ekholm. She led the team to a 5-4 round robin record, again in a four-way tie for third place. The team then lost to the Russians in a tiebreak, finishing 5th place overall.

McManus skipped the University of Gävle team, representing Sweden at the 2015 Winter Universiade. There, she led her team of Cecilia Östlund, Huhta and Mabergs to a 7-2 round robin record, in a tie for second place with Russia. However, in the playoffs they lost to Russia in the semifinal and then Switzerland in the bronze medal game, finishing in fourth place.

McManus was invited to be the alternate on the Swedish team at the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship. The team, which was skipped by Margaretha Sigfridsson, ended up losing the tiebreaker to South Korea, finishing in 5th place. McManus did not play in any games.

McManus would again be the alternate at team Sweden, this time at the 2014 European Curling Championships, on a team skipped by Anna Hasselborg. The team finished fifth with McManus again not playing in any games.

McManus was invited to play second for the Sigfridsson rink which was representing Sweden at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship. The team finished in 7th place, missing the playoffs with a 5-6 round robin record.

In the following season McManus joined the Hasselborg rink as the third, with the rink representing Sweden at the 2016 European Curling Championships. After finishing the round robin in second place with an 8–2 record, the team won their semifinal match against the Czechs before losing in the final against Russia's Viktoriia Moiseeva rink, earning the team silver medals. The rink represented Sweden again later in the season at the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship where they came just short of winning a medal finishing in fourth. The next season, the team made it all the way to the final of the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship before losing to Canada's Jennifer Jones. Team Hasselborg won back-to-back Grand Slam events at the start of the 2018-19 season, the Elite 10 and the Masters. The team lost once again the final of the World Women's Curling Championship, this year to Silvana Tirinzoni and Switzerland.

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.[3][4] 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.[5]

The Hasselborg rink won the first event of the 2020–21 season, defeating Raphaela Keiser in the final of the 2020 Women's Masters Basel.[6] Next, they played Team Wranå in the Sweden National Challenge in December 2020, where they lost 17–12.[7] 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.[8] 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. They finished third through the round robin with 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.[9] On June 4, 2021, Team Hasselborg was selected as the Olympic Team for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[10]

Personal life[]

McManus is currently engaged to Joakim Sjölund.[11] She is the daughter of Scottish footballer Stuart McManus.

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 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22
Masters DNP SF SF C SF N/A Q
Tour Challenge T2 SF F DNP C N/A N/A
National Q Q DNP QF C N/A C
Canadian Open DNP SF Q Q C N/A
Champions Cup DNP F QF DNP N/A Q
Players' DNP SF QF F N/A SF

Former events[]

Event 2018–19
Elite 10 C

References[]

  1. ^ 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide
  2. ^ "World Curling Federation - World Junior Curling Championships 2011 - Women's Medal Games". worldcurling.org. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  3. ^ The Canadian Press (March 12, 2020). "World Women's Curling Championship Cancelled". The Sports Network. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "World Women's Curling Championship 2020 cancelled in Prince George, Canada". World Curling Federation. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  5. ^ "GSOC cancels remaining events of 2019–20 season". Grand Slam of Curling. Grand Slam of Curling. March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  6. ^ Video (full game): 2020 Women's Masters Basel - Final - Raphaela Keiser (Switzerland) vs Anna Hasselborg (Sweden) on YouTube
  7. ^ "Winners of the Sweden National Challenge!". Facebook. Team Panthera. December 13, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  8. ^ "Women's Worlds added to bubble". Curling Canada. March 5, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  9. ^ Jackie Spiegel (May 9, 2021). "World Women's Curling Championship 2021: Results, standings, schedule and TV channel". Sporting News. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  10. ^ "SOK tar ut fler idrottare till vinter-OS" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. June 4, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  11. ^ 2018 Continental Cup Media Guide

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