Margaretha Sigfridsson

Margaretha Sigfridsson
Curler
Born	(1976-01-28) January 28, 1976 Sveg, Härjedalen, Sweden
Team
Curling club	Skellefteå CK, Skellefteå, SWE
Skip	Margaretha Sigfridsson
Fourth	Cissi Östlund
Third	Christina Bertrup
Second	Maria Wennerström
Career
World Championship appearances	7 (2002, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
European Championship appearances	4 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Olympic appearances	1 (2014)
Medal record Curling Representing  Sweden Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Team World Curling Championships 2002 Bismarck 2009 Gangneung 2012 Lethbridge 2013 Riga European Curling Championships 2010 Champéry 2013 Stavanger 2011 Moscow 2012 Karlstad World Junior Curling Championships 1997 Karuizawa

Margaretha Sigfridsson (born 28 January 1976) is a Swedish curler from Sundsvall. She currently skips the Swedish national team while throwing lead rocks.

Early career

Sigfridsson skipped the Swedish team at the 1997 World Junior Curling Championships, winning the silver medal. Sweden lost in the final game 11–3 to Scotland, skipped by Julia Ewart.

Sigfridsson was the Swedish skip at the 2002 Ford World Women's Curling Championship. Once again, she won a silver medal, and once again lost to Scotland (this time, skipped by Jackie Lockhart) in the final. The score was 6–5.

2006-2011

Sigfridsson would later join the Stina Viktorsson rink, at first playing second, and then becoming lead in 2007. Sigfridsson would return to the Worlds as a member of the Viktorsson rink at the World Championships in 2008, finishing in sixth place. The team would win their first World Curling Tour event the next season, winning the 2008 Stockholm Ladies Cup. Later in the season, Sigfridsson temporarily joined the Anette Norberg rink as lead, and the team won a silver medal at the 2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship, losing to China's Wang Bingyu in the final. Sigfridsson won a gold medal at the 2010 European Curling Championships with Viktorsson. In 2010-11, the Viktorsson rink would play in their first two Grand Slam events. They played in the 2010 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic, winning 4 games before being eliminated, and at the 2011 Players' Championship, winning just two games.

2011-present

In 2011, Viktorsson left the rink, and Sigfridsson took over as skip, but would still throw first stones. The team brought in Maria Prytz to throw last rocks. The team quickly became the top team in Sweden, and would represent the country at the 2011 European Curling Championships where they won a silver medal, losing to Scotland's Eve Muirhead rink. As Sweden's representative at the 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, the Sigfridsson rink won the silver medal, losing to Switzerland's Mirjam Ott in the final match. The team won one WCT event in the season, the 2011 Credit Suisse Women's Masters Basel. They played in on Grand Slam event, the 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic, winning four games.

The team would again represent Sweden at the 2012 European Curling Championships where they won the bronze medal. Despite losing the 2013 Swedish final to Anette Norberg, the Sigfridsson rink was selected to represent Sweden at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. The team would again win a silver medal at the Worlds, losing to Scotland's Muirhead in the final. Sigfridsson and Muirhead would meet once again at the end of the season in the 2013 Players' Championship final, where she again lost to Muirhead. It would be the first time Sigfridsson would make the playoffs at a Grand Slam event. The team played in one other Slam that season, the 2012 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic, winning four games. They won one Tour event, the 2012 Women's Masters Basel.

In November 2013, Sigfridsson led Sweden to another gold medal at the 2013 European Curling Championships. She continued this success towards the 2014 Winter Olympics, where she led Sweden to a silver medal, after losing to Canada's Jennifer Jones in the final. A month later, she represented Sweden at the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship where she fared a much worse record, placing 5th. The team played in three Slams in the season, winning just two games at the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic, losing in the quarterfinals of the 2013 Masters of Curling and losing in the semifinals of the 2014 Players' Championship.

The Sigfridsson rink started the 2014-15 season by winning the 2014 Stockholm Ladies Cup.

Grand Slam record

Former events

External links

• Margaretha Sigfridsson on the World Curling Federation database

• Margaretha Sigfridsson on the World Curling Tour database