| Isabella Wranå | |
| Birth Date: | 22 June 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Curling Club: | Sundbybergs CK, Sundbyberg, SWE[1] |
| Skip: | Isabella Wranå |
| Third: | Almida de Val |
| Second: | Maria Larsson |
| Lead: | Linda Stenlund |
| Alternate: | Jennie Wåhlin |
| Mixed Doubles Partner: | Rasmus Wranå |
| World Mixed Doubles Championship Appearances: | 2 |
| European Championship Appearances: | 1 |
| Grand Slam Victories: | 1 (2023 Players') |
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå[2] (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.
Wranå has skipped the Swedish team in four World Junior Curling Championships, in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, Fanny Sjöberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin, Sjöberg and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at it in 2017 when her and teammates Wåhlin, de Val and Sjöberg won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ended up losing to Canada's Kaitlyn Jones in the final. This team also represented Sweden at the 2017 Winter Universiade, where they took home the bronze medal.
As World Junior champions, Wranå qualified for the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup, her first Grand Slam event. The team did not qualify for the playoffs but did win one game. The team won their first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic.[3] A month later, they won the Paf Masters Tour.[4] Over the course of the 2018–19 season, Wranå's team played in four slams, failing to qualify in any of the four. They won one game at the 2018 Tour Challenge, one game at the 2018 National, no games at the 2019 Canadian Open and one game at the 2019 Champions Cup. Also during this season, Wranå skipped her team to a gold medal at the 2019 Winter Universiade.[5]
Team Wranå had a successful 2019–20 season, winning two tour events (the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic and the Paf Masters Tour once again) and finishing second at the Women's Masters Basel and the Glynhill Ladies International.[6] [7] [8] They played in two slam events, winning one game at both the 2019 Tour Challenge and the 2019 National.[9] [10]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Team Wranå only played in one tour event during the abbreviated 2020–21 season. The team competed at the 2020 Women's Masters Basel, where they missed the playoffs with a 1–2 record.[11] In December, they played Team Hasselborg in the Sweden National Challenge, where they won by a score of 17–12.[12] The Swedish Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the pandemic, so Team Hasselborg was named as the Swedish Team for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship.[13] After the season, longtime lead Fanny Sjöberg stepped back from competitive curling and Maria Larsson joined the team as their new lead.[14]
In their first event of the 2021–22 season, Team Wranå reached the final of the 2021 Euro Super Series where they lost to Rebecca Morrison.[15] They also reached the semifinals of the 2021 Women's Masters Basel before being eliminated by Denmark's Madeleine Dupont.[16] After missing the playoffs at the 2021 Masters, Team Wranå made the playoffs at a Grand Slam event for the first time at the 2021 National before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Kelsey Rocque.[17] Elsewhere on tour, the team reached the semifinals of both the Red Deer Curling Classic and the International Bernese Ladies Cup. At the Swedish Eliteserien in February, the team defeated Tova Sundberg to claim the event title.[18] They also beat Sundberg in the final of the 2022 Swedish Women's Curling Championship in March.[19] Team Wranå wrapped up their season at the 2022 Players' Championship Grand Slam where they once again qualified for the playoffs. They then lost to Tracy Fleury in the quarterfinal round.[20] A highlight of the Players' Championship came when Wranå lost her broom during one of her shots in the game against Krista McCarville, however, she was still able to deliver the stone.[21] After the season, Jennie Wåhlin stepped back from competitive curling and was replaced by Linda Stenlund. The revised lineup of the team saw Wranå and de Val continue at skip and third while Larsson moved up to second and Stenlund slotted in at lead.
Team Wranå finished third at their second event of the 2022–23 season, the 2022 Oslo Cup, defeating Marianne Rørvik 6–2. In September, the team competed in the European Qualifier best-of-seven series against Team Hasselborg, which they lost 4–1.[22] They then had a quarterfinal finish at the 2022 Women's Masters Basel after a previously unbeaten record. In the first Slam of the season, the 2022 National, they finished pool play with a 2–2 record, but then lost 7–2 in a tiebreaker to the newly formed Kaitlyn Lawes rink. At the 2022 Tour Challenge, they again went 2–2 to qualify for a tiebreaker, which they won 7–4 over Hollie Duncan. Team Wranå then beat the World Champion Silvana Tirinzoni rink in the quarters before losing to Team Rachel Homan in the semifinal, marking the first time the team qualified for a Slam semifinal.[23] [24] They then lost in the final of the Sundbyberg Open to Team Hasselborg.[25] The next Slam was the 2022 Masters, where the team missed the playoffs with a 1–3 record.[26] The team began the New Year at the 2023 Canadian Open, where they qualified through the A side, defeating Team Hasselborg in the A final game. In the playoffs, they defeated Jennifer Jones in the quarterfinals before losing to Kerri Einarson in the semifinals.[27] Team Wranå's next event was the 2023 International Bernese Ladies Cup where they went undefeated until the final where they fell to Team Tirinzoni.[28] The following month, they played in the Swedish Women's Curling Championship, finishing second behind Hasselborg. That same month, the team faced off against Hasselborg again for a chance to play in the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship. The two teams played in a best-of-seven series, with Hasselborg winning in seven games.[29] In their next two events, they finished third at the Sun City Cup and won the Swedish Eliteserien. The team finished off their season at the 2023 Players' Championship. There, Wranå led her team to a 4–1 record in group play, earning a bye to the semifinals. In the playoffs, she defeated Einarson, and then Tirinzoni in the finals to claim the team's first ever Grand Slam title.[30]
After suffering defeats to Team Hasselborg in both of their first two tour events, Team Wranå turned things around at the European qualifier as they won the series 4–2, earning them the right to represent Sweden at the 2023 European Curling Championships.[31] In preparation for the Euros, the team played in the 2023 Players Open where they lost to Hasselborg in the final.[32] They also played in two Slams, the 2023 Tour Challenge and the 2023 National, reaching the quarterfinals of the latter.[33] In November, the team represented Sweden at the Europeans in Aberdeen. There, they finished third through the round robin with a 6–3 record, earning a spot in the playoffs. They then lost both the semifinal and bronze medal game to Italy and Norway respectively, finishing fourth.[34] Back on tour, they reached the semifinals of the 2023 Western Showdown and the quarterfinals of the 2023 Masters and the 2024 International Bernese Ladies Cup. Days before the 2024 Swedish Women's Championship, Team Hasselborg was appointed to represent Sweden at the 2024 World Women's Curling Championship as they had accumulated more points than Team Wranå in their best five events.[35] The team then lost the final of the Swedish Championship to Hasselborg. In February, Team Wranå won their sole event title of the season after an undefeated run at the Sun City Cup.[36] To end the season, the team tried to defend their title at the 2024 Players' Championship. After a 4–1 record through the round robin, they beat Korea's Gim Eun-ji in the semifinal before coming up short to Silvana Tirinzoni in a rematch of the 2023 final.[37]
Wranå also represented Sweden at the 2014 European Mixed Curling Championship, throwing third rocks for the team, which was skipped by Patric Mabergs. The team would go on to win the gold medal. Wranå skipped the Swedish mixed team and threw third rocks at the 2017 World Mixed Curling Championship. The team, which included Patric Mabergs, Johannes Patz and Sofia Mabergs went undefeated in group play, but lost to Scotland in the quarterfinals.
Wranå participates in mixed doubles curling with her brother Rasmus. The two won their first mixed doubles tour event at the 2020 Mixed Doubles Bern event.[38] In 2022, the pair represented Sweden at the 2022 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. After a 7–2 round robin record, they lost to Germany's Pia-Lisa Schöll and Klaudius Harsch in a qualification game, eliminating them in fifth place.[39]
Wranå attended high school at Härnösands gymnasium. She lives in Stockholm.
| Event | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour Challenge | DNP | DNP | Q | Q | N/A | N/A | SF | Q | |
| The National | DNP | DNP | Q | Q | N/A | QF | Q | QF | |
| Masters | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | N/A | Q | Q | QF | |
| Canadian Open | DNP | DNP | Q | DNP | N/A | N/A | SF | Q | |
| Players' | DNP | DNP | DNP | N/A | DNP | QF | C | F | |
| Champions Cup | Q | DNP | Q | N/A | DNP | DNP | DNP | N/A |