Ina Forrest
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Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Citizenship | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | May 25, 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
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] | |||
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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] | |||
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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 |
10 | Wheelchair curling | 2017 | Scotland Stirling |
Silver | Wheelchair curling | 2020 | Switzerland Wetzikon |
Family
She and her husband Curtis are small business owners. They have three children: Evany, Marlon and Connor.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ a b The team is mixed gender, as mandated by the World Curling Federation's rules for wheelchair curling.[4]
References
- ^ CTV
- ^ a b c d e f "Ina Forrest | Canadian Paralympic Committee". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ Vernon Morning Star[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Rules and Regulations". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on 12 March 2010. 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 at the Canadian Paralympic Committee
- Ina Forrest at World Curling
- Ina Forrest at Paralympic.org
- Ina Forrest at the Canadian Paralympic Committee
- Ina Forrest at CurlingZone
- Profile at the Official Website for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Canadian women curlers
- Canadian wheelchair curlers
- Paralympic wheelchair curlers of Canada
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling
- Paralympic gold medalists for Canada
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Wheelchair curlers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Curlers from British Columbia
- World wheelchair curling champions
- Canadian curling biography stubs