Vicki Adams

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Vicki Adams
Curler
Born (1989-11-16) 16 November 1989
Edinburgh, Scotland
Team
Curling club Portpatrick CC,
Portpatrick, SCO
Skip Eve Muirhead
Third Anna Sloan
Second Vicki Adams
Lead Lauren Gray
Alternate Rachel Hannen
Career
World Championship
appearances		 4 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015)
European Championship
appearances		 6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Grand Slam victories 6: Players' Championships: (2013, 2015, 2016); Autumn Gold, 2013; Colonial Square, 2014; Canadian Open, 2014)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi
Winter Universiade
2011 Erzurum
Representing  Scotland
World Championships
2013 Riga
European Curling Championships
2011 Moscow
2015 Esbjerg
2013 Stavanger
2012 Karlstad
2016 Braehead
2014 Champéry
World Junior Curling Championships
2011 Perth
2009 Vancouver

Victoria "Vicki" Adams (born 16 November 1989) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. She plays second for Eve Muirhead. Representing Scotland, they are the 2013 World Champions and representing Great Britain, they are the 2014 Olympic bronze medallists.

Adams was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lives in Stranraer. She has been a long-time member of the Muirhead rink, dating back to her junior career. With Muirhead, she won three gold medals at the World Junior Curling Championships, winning in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Adams, whilst at the University of the West of Scotland also won a gold medal at the 2011 Winter Universiade, playing second for Anna Sloan.[1][2]

Adams stayed with the Muirhead rink after her junior career, except for the 2011 World Championships, when she played second for Sloan, finishing ninth. With the Muirhead rink, she won a gold medal at the 2011 European Championships in Moscow and the 2013 World Championships in Riga. The Scottish world champion team of Muirhead, Sloan, Adams and Claire Hamilton, were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Women's Curling seal first ever GB Universiade Curling Gold". British Universities and Colleges Sport. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "UWS Student Wins Gold at World Junior Curling Championships" (Press release). University of the West of Scotland. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Williams, Ollie (20 February 2014). "Britain's women win curling bronze to equal Team GB record". Sport Winter Olympics. BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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