Ina Forrest
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| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1962-05-25) 25 May 1962 |
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| Country |  Canada |
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| Sport | Wheelchair curling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ina Forrest (born 25 May 1962) is a wheelchair curler selected to be second for Canada's team[n 1] at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics, winning a gold medal on both occasions.[1] She has also won a gold medal 3 times in the World Wheelchair Curling Championships, in 2009, 2011, and 2013.[2] She was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in February 2016.[2] She is a member of the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, British Columbia.[3]
Contents
1 Early curling career
2 Results
3 Family
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links
Early curling career
She started wheelchair curling in 2004, and won silver in both the 2004 and 2005 Canadian National Wheelchair Curling Championships as a member of the British Columbia wheelchair curling team, before being named in 2006 to the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Team[n 1] for whom she has since competed, as of 2018, in the next 9 World Wheelchair Curling Championships (starting in 2007) and the next 3 Winter Paralympics (starting in 2010).[2]
Results
Winter Paralympics[2][5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Finish |
Event |
Year |
Place |
| Gold |
Wheelchair curling |
2010 |
Canada Vancouver |
| Gold |
Wheelchair curling |
2014 |
 Russia Sochi |
| Bronze |
Wheelchair curling |
2018 |
 South Korea Pyeongchang |
 World Wheelchair Curling Championships[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Finish |
Event |
Year |
Place |
| 4. |
Wheelchair curling |
2007 |
 Sweden Sollefteå |
| 4. |
Wheelchair curling |
2008 |
 Switzerland Sursee |
| Gold |
Wheelchair curling |
2009 |
Canada Vancouver |
| Gold |
Wheelchair curling |
2011 |
 Czech Republic Prague |
| 7.[6] |
Wheelchair curling |
2012 |
South Korea Chuncheon |
| Gold |
Wheelchair curling |
2013 |
Russia Sochi |
| 6.[7] |
Wheelchair curling |
2015 |
 Finland Lohja |
| 7. |
Wheelchair curling |
2016 |
Switzerland Lucerne |
| 5. |
Wheelchair curling |
2017 |
South Korea Pyeongchang |
Family
She and her husband Curtis are small business owners. They have three children: Evany, Marlon and Connor.[2]
Footnotes
^ ab The team is mixed gender, as mandated by the World Curling Federation's rules for wheelchair curling.[4]
References
^ CTV
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^ Vernon Morning Star
^ "Rules and Regulations". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 19 March 2018.R13. WHEELCHAIR CURLING ... (h) For WCF wheelchair competitions, each on-ice team must have four players delivering stones and must be comprised of both genders at all times during games. A team violating this rule will forfeit the game.
(The quote is from pages 20 and 21 of the pdf file The_Rules_of_Curling_(October_2017).pdf which can be downloaded from the afore-mentioned website.)
^ "Wheelchair Curling – Mixed – Competition Summary" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ "World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2012 Medal Games". World Curling Federation. 25 February 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2018.WWhCC 2012 - Final Standings: ... 7. Canada 3-6* ... * teams are ranked according to their win-loss record against each other at the event.
^ "World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2015". World Curling Federation. 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2018.Standings ... 6.Canada
External links
Ina Forrest on the World Curling Federation database
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