Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Chalmers (née Adams) (born 16 November 1989) is a Scottish former curler who was the long time second for

Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bron ...

. Representing Scotland, they won the 2013 World Championships and the European Championships in 2011 and

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. Representing Great Britain, they are the 2014 Olympic bronze medallists and finished fourth at the

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Career

Chalmers was born in

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, Scotland and lives in

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and

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. 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

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, winning in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Chalmers, whilst at the

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also won a gold medal at the

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, playing second for

Anna Sloan Anna Sloan (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish curler. She was the longtime third for the Eve Muirhead rink. Representing Scotland, they won the 2011 European Championships, the 2013 World Championships, and the 2017 European Championships ...

. 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

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, where they won the bronze medal.

Personal life

Chalmers is married to Andrew Chalmers and is the younger sister of curler, Kay Adams. Like her longtime team-mate

, she has

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