Just two more World Women’s Championship appearance after this year and the grand old lady of German curling, Andrea Schopp will be tied atop the leaderboard for appearances at the World Women’s Curling Championship.
First appearing at the worlds in 1985 in Jonkoping, Sweden, where she finished fifth after losing a tiebreaker to Scotland’s Isobel Torrance (Canada’s Linda Moore won the crown), Schopp has made 15 subsequent appearances bringing her total to 16. The person on top of the list? Why, none other than Dordi Nordby with 18.
Schopp has one world title on her resume — the 1988 crown when she defeated Thunder Bay’s Heather Houston in the final.
Since then she’s won a bronze medal (1989) and that’s it for hardware. Most of her subsequent world appearances have ended with finishes in the middle of the table.
This year, will probably be no different , as she sits 4-5 at the end of the fifth day in South Korea.
Interestingly, in all of those 16 appearances, Schopp has always skipped the German entry.
The skip from Garmisch-Partenkirchen also has three Olympic appearances on her resume — a fourth (1988) and a gold (1992) when curling was a demonstration sport and an eighth place finish in 1998.
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