Kirsten Wall
{{short description|Canadian curler}}
{{For|the rower|Kristen Wall}}
{{Infobox curler
| name = Kirsten Wall
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Kirsten Harmark
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|11|27}}
| birth_place = Milton, Ontario, Canada
| Curling club = Milton CC,{{Cite web| url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-kirsten-wall| title=Curling Women - Gold Medal Game - Canada - Gold Medallist| date=2016-06-24| access-date=2014-01-27| archive-date=2014-02-25| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225061230/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-kirsten-wall| url-status=dead}}
Milton, ON
| Skip =
| Third =
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| Member Association = {{ON}}
|Hearts appearances = 4 (2001, 2002, 2004, 2008)
|Top CCA ranking = 4th (2003–04)
|Grand Slam victories = 1 (Sobeys Slam: 2007)
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport | Curling}}
{{MedalCountry| {{CAN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Winter Olympics}}
{{MedalGold | 2014 Sochi | }}
{{MedalCountry | {{ON}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Scotties Tournament of Hearts}}
{{MedalBronze | 2004 Red Deer | }}
{{MedalBronze | 2008 Regina | }}
{{MedalCountry | {{MB}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Canadian Olympic Curling Trials}}
{{MedalGold | 2013 Winnipeg | }}
}}
Kirsten Wall (born November 27, 1975, as Kirsten Harmark) is a Canadian curler from Milton, Ontario. She was the alternate player on the Jennifer Jones rink which represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, receiving a gold medal.{{Cite web |last=LeBlanc |first=Steve |date=2014-11-06 |title=Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 6 Nov 2014, p. 52 |url=https://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/3080503/page/news.milton.halinet.on.ca/page/ID=3080503&po=52&q=kirsten+wall&docid=OOI.3080503 |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=news.milton.halinet.on.ca |language=en}}
Curling career
In 1995 she, alongside teammates Nicole Pelligrin, Catherine Kemp and younger sister Audra Harmark, won the Ontario provincial junior curling championship as a skip,{{Cite web |title=Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 17 Jan 2006, p. 22 |url=https://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/2508111/page/news.milton.halinet.on.ca/page/ID=2508111&po=22&q=kirsten+wall&docid=OOI.2508111 |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=news.milton.halinet.on.ca |language=en}} earning her team the right to represent Ontario at the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She lost in the final that year to Kelly MacKenzie (Scott).
A number of years later, Wall joined the Sherry Middaugh team, first as her alternate, and then in 2002 as her third. In 2003, Wall won the Canada Cup of Curling as third for Middaugh. Wall played in her first Tournament of Hearts in 2004 after not having played in two previous trip as Middaugh's alternate. The team lost in the semi-final to Quebec's Marie-France Larouche. In 2008, the team went to the Hearts again, losing in the semi-final to Manitoba's Jennifer Jones.
Wall left the Middaugh team in 2010 to form her own rink with Hollie Nicol, Danielle Inglis and Jill Mouzar. The team lasted for two seasons.
Wall joined the Jennifer Jones team for the first half of the 2012/13 season playing third, as Jones was expecting her first child and sat out until January.{{cite news|title=Curling queen Jones expecting|author=Paul Wiecek| url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/curling/Curling-queen-Jones-expecting-162017435.html| publisher=Winnipeg Sun| date= July 11, 2012}}
Personal life
Wall studied Biology and Genetics at McMaster University and the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences. She is a senior genetic technologist at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga.{{Cite web |last=Garbutt |first=Herb |date=2014-01-23 |title=Olympics put Wall's curling retirement on hold |url=https://www.insidehalton.com/community-story/4330265-olympics-put-wall-s-curling-retirement-on-hold/ |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=InsideHalton.com |language=en-CA}} She is married to Trevor Wall,{{Cite web |title=Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 30 Aug 2002, p. 29 |url=https://news.milton.halinet.on.ca/2506939/page/news.milton.halinet.on.ca/page/ID=2506939&po=29&n= |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=news.milton.halinet.on.ca |language=en}} who had competed at the 2004 Nokia Brier.{{Cite web |last=Hearty |first=Adam |date=2014-01-31 |title=Canada's athletes in Sochi: Meet curler Kirsten Wall - Toronto {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1121701/canadas-athletes-in-sochi-meet-curler-kirsten-wall/ |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}
Grand Slam record
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| class="wikitable" |
| Event
! 2007–08 ! 2008–09 ! 2009–10 ! 2010–11 ! 2011–12 ! 2012–13 |
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| Autumn Gold
|style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:yellow;"| SF |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |
| Manitoba Lotteries
|style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |
| Colonial Square Ladies Classic
|style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#afeeee;"| R16 |
| The Masters Grand Slam of Curling
|style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |
| Players' Championships
|style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |style="background:#ffebcd;"| QF |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | DNP | DNP |
=Former events=
| class="wikitable" |
| Event
! 2007–08 ! 2008–09 ! 2009–10 ! 2010–11 |
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| Wayden Transportation
|style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |
| Sobeys Slam
| style="background:#0f0;"| C |style="background:yellow;"| SF |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | N/A |style="background:#afeeee;"| Q |
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References
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External links
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Category:Canadian women curlers
Category:People from Milton, Ontario
Category:Sportspeople from Oakville, Ontario
Category:Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic curlers for Canada
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Category:Olympic medalists in curling
Category:Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Category:Continental Cup of Curling participants
Category:Canada Cup (curling) participants
Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen
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