Ina Forrest































Ina Forrest
Personal information
Nationality Canadian
Citizenship Canada
Born
(1962-05-25) 25 May 1962 (age 56)
Sport
Country
 Canada
Sport Wheelchair curling

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


































































Wheelchair curling - Paralympic pictogram.svg 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





  1. ^ ab The team is mixed gender, as mandated by the World Curling Federation's rules for wheelchair curling.[4]




References





  1. ^ CTV


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  3. ^ Vernon Morning Star


  4. ^ "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.)


  5. ^ "Wheelchair Curling – Mixed – Competition Summary" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.


  6. ^ "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.


  7. ^ "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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