Andrea Schöpp (born 27 February 1965) is a German curler from

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. She lectures part-time in statistics at the

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Career

Schöpp is a two-time World champion ( and ), seven-time European champion (, , , , , , ) and

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champion (demonstration). Schöpp has skipped every team she has played for in international events - except when she plays at the European Mixed Curling Championships, where she usually plays third for her brother, Rainer. Schöpp made her international debut in 1980, at the age of 15. She skipped the German team to a bronze medal at the European championships that year. She also won silver medals at the Worlds in 1986 and 1987 and a bronze in 1989. She continues to curl, although she has had less success in the last decade. Her fourth-place finish at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship was her highest placement since 1996 at the Worlds. She won the in

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with an extra-end victory over Scotland's Eve Muirhead. Schöpp won a gold medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship as a part of the team skipped by her brother Rainer.

Personal life

Schöpp studied statistics at the

and earned her diploma in 1991. She completed her doctorate in 1996, and has been employed by the University of Munich from 1991.Andrea Schopp's research works , University of Hamburg, Hamburg (UHH) and other places
/ref> Schöpp's brother, Rainer Schöpp, is also a curler. She was born hours before her longtime teammate,

Monika Wagner Monika Wagner (born 28 February 1965 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany) is a German curler. She currently plays third for Andrea Schöpp, who was born eight hours before her in the same hospital. Wagner has played with Schöpp for most ...

, in the same hospital.

Teammates

Works

*''Alternative Parametrisierungen Bei Korrelierten Bivariaten Binären Responsevariablen''. Vol. 1, Anwendungsorientierte Statistik. 1997.

References

External links

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Andrea Schöpp - Player Profile - Curling - Eurosport UK
Living people 1965 births Sportspeople from Garmisch-Partenkirchen German female curlers Olympic gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Germany World curling champions European curling champions German curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants 20th-century German sportswomen 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-curling-bio-stub