Rhona Martin has skipped the Scotland women's curling team at both the European and World Championships, but is most famous as the skip of the team that claimed the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 - a fantastic achievement!
Rhona Martin has skipped the Scotland women's curling team at both the European and World Championships, but is most famous as the skip of the team that claimed the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 - a fantastic achievement!SPORT BIORhona Martin has been curling for 22 years and first represented Scotland at junior level at the World Junior Championships in 1998. In 1998 she won the right to appear in a major international championship where she was skip of the Scotland team that won a silver medal at the European Championships. The following year in Chamonix the team were narrowly edged out of the medal placings.In 2000 Rhona's quartet won the Scottish Championships defeating the team led by former Olympic skip Kirsty Hay in the final and were therefore entitled to represent Scotland at the World Championships. They performed well at the worlds, with a particular highlight being the defeat of the Canadian side. Unfortunately they missed out on a medal by losing to Norway.In 2002 Rhona Martin and her team represented Great Britain at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Illness came very close to scuppering Rhona's chances but she made the journey and she and her team mates found their Olympic form early. However they failed to convert a golden opportunity against USA and this led them having to take part in tie-break matches.
They won the two tie-break matches convincingly which meant a place in the semis, which they duly won against Canada and guaranteed them a medal. That medal then turned from a silver to an actual gold as Rhona successfully judged an indredibly difficult draw with her last stone against Switzerland.
This win meant that they became Great Britain's first gold medallist in any sport at the Winter Olympics since 1984.
In 2005 Rhona and her team finished 5th at the European Championships and in 2006 Rhona skipped the British Olympic team in Turin.In 2002 Martin was awarded an MBE for services to curling.SPECIALIST AREASRhona Martin is an ambassador for B&Q and has opened many stores and attended store fun days. She has worked with the media doing a number of feature articles after the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 and before Turin in 2006.She had done a number of talks on Olympic experience, the highs and lows of training and competing and what it is like to take part in an Olympic Games
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