Vicki Chalmers | |
Birth Name: | Victoria Adams |
Birth Date: | 1989 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Curling Club: | Portpatrick CC, Portpatrick, SCO |
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World Championship Appearances: | 6 |
European Championship Appearances: | 8 |
Olympic Appearances: | 2 (2014, 2018) |
Grand Slam Victories: | 6 (2013 Players', 2013 Autumn Gold, 2014 Colonial Square, 2014 Canadian Open, 2015 Players', 2016 Players') |
Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Chalmers[1] (née Adams) (born 16 November 1989) is a Scottish former curler who was the long time second for Eve Muirhead. Representing Scotland, they won the 2013 World Championships and the European Championships in 2011 and 2017. Representing Great Britain, they are the 2014 Olympic bronze medallists and finished fourth at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Chalmers was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lives in Stranraer and Stirling.[2] 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. Chalmers, whilst at the University of the West of Scotland also won a gold medal at the 2011 Winter Universiade, playing second for Anna Sloan.[3] [4]
Chalmers 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, Chalmers and Claire Hamilton, were selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal.[5]
Chalmers is married to Andrew Chalmers[6] and is the younger sister of curler, Kay Adams.[7]
Like her longtime team-mate Eve Muirhead, she has coeliac disease[8]