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7 unusual facts about Rhona Martin


Jackie Lockhart

Lockhart missed out on selection for the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, and had to watch from afar as the team skipped by Rhona Martin won plaudits for becoming the winners of Great Britain's first gold medal in any sport at the Winter Olympics since ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1984.

Kelley Law

She had an 8-1 record going into the playoffs but lost the semi-final to Great Britain's Rhona Martin who would eventually claim gold.

Kelly Wood

Wood was shortlisted along with nine other female curlers to be considered for a place on the women's Olympic team and became successful to travel to Turin to defend Rhona Martin's Olympic gold that Team GB won in Salt Lake City in 2002.

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Rhona Martin (born 1966), Scottish curler and skip of the Great Britain team

Rhona Martin

However, Law earned her revenge against Scotland in the semi-finals, leading Canada to a 10-6 win, Martin's team was disappointed after missing out on a medal by losing 10-5 to Dordi Nordby's Norwegian outfit in the subsequent play-off.

Awaiting them there was Kelley Law's Canadian rink, who three members of Martin's team had lost to while playing for Scotland at the same stage of the 2000 World Championships.

They performed well at the worlds, with a particular highlight of defeating the Canadian side skipped by Kelley Law in the round-robin stage of the competition.



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Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.