Mark Nichols

For other people named Mark Nichols, see Mark Nichols (disambiguation).

Mark Nichols
Team
Curling club	Bally Haly G&CC, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Career
Brier appearances	8 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Top CCA ranking	4th (2008–09)
Grand Slam victories	1: The National (2010)

Medal record
Men's curling
Competitor for  Canada
Winter Olympics
Gold	2006 Turin
World Junior Curling Championships
Gold	2001 Ogden
Canadian Olympic Curling Trials
Gold	2005 Halifax
Tim Hortons Brier
Silver	2007 Hamilton
Bronze	2011 London

Mark Nichols, ONL (born on January 1, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Nichols played third for the Brad Gushue rink from 1999 to 2011, and represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. With Gushue, Nichols has been to three Canadian Junior Curling Championships (winning in 2001) and six Briers (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009). He won the World Junior Curling Championships in 2001 with Gushue as well. He also won Gold in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, at which he threw a spectacular shot - running back a guard onto another stone which picked another rock that was sitting in a dead zone - in the 6th end of the final against Finland, helping Canada to score 6. Certainly one thing to aid their victory was the fact that Nichols shot a blistering 97 percent in the gold medal final. “When he’s playing that way, we don’t lose very much,” said Gushue.^[1]

Nichols also skipped team Newfoundland and Labrador with Shelley Nichols, Brent Hamilton and Jennifer Guzzwell to a Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in 2005.

In the summer of 2011, Nichols married his longtime girlfriend and fellow curler Colette Lemon.

Awards

• WJCC All-Star Third - 2001

References

1. ^ Canadian Curling Association

External links

• Mark Nichols on Real Champions

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Name	Nichols, Mark
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Date of birth	January 1, 1980
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