Tahli Gill

Tahli Gill
Curler
Born (1999-09-08) 8 September 1999 (age 25)
Sydney, Australia[1]
Team
SkipTahli Gill
ThirdKirby Gill
SecondOh Sun-yun
LeadLucy Militano
AlternateIvy Militano
Mixed doubles
partner		Dean Hewitt
Curling career
Member Association Australia
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		5 (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		1 (2018)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)

Tahli Gill (born 8 September 1999) is an Australian curler who resides in Brisbane.[2] She currently skips her own team and plays mixed doubles with partner Dean Hewitt.

Career

Gill started curling at age 11.[2] Her mother Lynette is also a curler,[3] as well as Tahli's sisters Kirby and Jayna. The four Gills sometimes play together, such as when they, along with Laurie Weeden, won the 2018 Australian Women's Championship.[4] They then represented Australia at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Championship, where they finished in sixth place out of the seven teams.[5]

At the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt made it to the semifinals before being eliminated by Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson. In the bronze medal match, they again lost to John Shuster and Cory Christensen from the United States.[6] Their fourth-place finish is the best finish ever for an Australian team at any world curling championship.[3]

Gill focused on mixed doubles for the 2019–20 season, placing second at the New Zealand Winter Games and winning the WCT Pacific Ocean Cup, a World Curling Tour (WCT) event.[7] Gill and Hewitt were qualified for the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

At the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event in December 2021, Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt made history when they won qualification to the mixed doubles tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics.[8]

Personal life

Outside of curling, Gill worked in a gelateria and is currently[when?] a student.[9] She attended the Queensland University of Technology.[10]

Teams

Women's

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2011–12 Victoria Wilson Marlene Corgat-Taylor Shontelle Walker Tahli Gill Lynette Gill 2012 PAJCC (5th)
2012–13 Victoria Wilson Marlene Corgat-Taylor Kelsey Hamsey Tahli Gill Samantha Jeffs Lynette Gill 2013 PAJCC (5th)
2013–14 Victoria Wilson Samantha Jeffs Tahli Gill Kirby Gill Ivy Militano Lynette Gill 2014 PAJCC (5th)
2014–15 Victoria Wilson Samantha Jeffs Tahli Gill Kirby Gill Ivy Militano Lynette Gill 2015 PAJCC (5th)
2015–16 Samantha Jeffs Tahli Gill Ivy Militano Kirby Gill Jayna Gill Lynette Gill 2016 WJBCC (18th)
2016–17 Samantha Jeffs Tahli Gill Ivy Militano Kirby Gill Jayna Gill Lynette Gill 2017 WJBCC (21st)
2017–18 Tahli Gill (fourth) Samantha Jeffs (skip) Ivy Militano Kirby Gill Jayna Gill Lynette Gill 2018 WJBCC (20th)
2018–19 Tahli Gill Laurie Weeden Lynette Gill Kirby Gill Jayna Gill Ken Macdonald
(PACC)		 AWCC 2018 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2018 (6th)
Tahli Gill Ivy Militano Jayna Gill Kirby Gill Lynette Gill 2019 (Jan) WJBCC (16th)
2019–20 Tahli Gill Kirby Gill Oh Sun-yun Veronica Johns Lucy Militano Lynette Gill 2019 (Dec) WJBCC (16th)
2022–23 Tahli Gill Kirby Gill Oh Sun-yun Lucy Militano Ivy Militano

Mixed doubles

Season Female Male Coach Events
2018–19 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs 2019 WMDCC (4th)
2019–20 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt
2020–21 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs 2021 WMDCC (13th)
2021–22 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt John Morris (OQE),
Pete Manasantivongs		 OQE 2021 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WOG 2022 (10th)
2022 WMDCC (11th)
2022–23 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Laura Walker 2023 WMDCC (8th)
2023–24 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall AMDCC 2023 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 WMDCC (15th)
2024–25 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt

References

  1. ^ "Tahli GILL". Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Tahli Gill". Olympic winter institute of Australia. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Australia's Tahli Gill indebted to her mum for discovering curling". World Curling Federation. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Gill wins 2019 Australian Womens National Championship". CurlingZone. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  6. ^ "World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2019". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Gill wins 2019 WCT Pacific Ocean Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Australia make history and qualify for Beijing 2022 Mixed Doubles Event". World Curling Federation. 9 December 2021.
  9. ^ Bakalla, Ilias (20 December 2021). "Beach to Beijing: The young duo representing Australia for the first time in curling at the Winter Olympics". The Feed. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Tahli GILL". Lake Placid 2023 Winter World University Games. Retrieved 17 January 2023.