Andrea Schöpp • Mar 23 2025 Andrea Schöpp could focus on the game and nothing else. Her skills developed from curling outdoors with her family in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. At the age of 15, Andrea skipped her team—which included her mother Elinore at third and Monika Wagner at lead,—to a bronze medal at the European Championships. Andrea and Monika would go on to reach the world championship final four times, winning in 1988 and 2010. Andrea explains her ambiguous feelings on the Olympics, despite winning a gold medal when curling was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Games in France. She also shares stories from her many world championships and Olympic appearances, including a bicycle mishap near the Korean border and warming up to curl on the ski slopes. She recalls the challenges of building a team in Germany and the disappointment of failing to qualify for the world championship when it was held in her hometown in 1992. Watch as well as listen—via the media player above—as a multitude of videos and images have been embedded in the file to enhance your podcast experience.
