Sara McManus
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December 13, 1991 Gothenburg |
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| Curling club | Sundbybergs CK, Sundbyberg, SWE |
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| Skip | Anna Hasselborg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Third | Sara McManus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Second | Agnes Knochenhauer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lead | Sofia Mabergs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alternate | Jennie Wåhlin | ||||||||||||||||||
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World Championship appearances |
3 (2014, 2015, 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sara McManus (born 13 December 1991 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish curler from Gävle.
McManus was the alternate for the Swedish team at the 2009 and 2010 World Junior Curling Championships. The team, which was skipped by Anna Hasselborg finished in sixth place in 2009 and won the gold medal in 2010. While listed as an alternate, the team acted as a five-player team, and McManus would throw lead rocks in most of the team's games. The team would be taken over by McManus' sisterJonna as skip for the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships, which Sara throwing third stones. There, the team placed fourth. Sara took over the team as skip for the 2012 and 2013 World Junior Curling Championships respectively. In 2012, she led her team of Anna Huhta, Marina Stener and Sofia Mabergs to a 6-3 round robin finish, which put them in a four-way tie for 3rd place. The team would win their tiebreaker match against Japan, and their next playoff game against Russia. However, they lost in the semifinal to the Czech Republic and would lose in the bronze medal game in a re-match with the Russians, settling for fourth place. At the 2013 Juniors, McManus again skipped the Swedish junior team with Mabergs and a new front-end of Rosalie Egli and Malin Ekholm. She led the team to a 5-4 round robin record, again in a four-way tie for third place. The team would lose to the Russians in a tiebreaker, and were eliminated, settling for 5th place overall.
McManus would skip the University of Gävle team, representing Sweden at the 2015 Winter Universiade. There, she led her team of Cecilia Östlund, Huhta and Mabergs to a 7-2 round robin record, in a tie for second place with Russia. However, in the playoffs, they would lose to Russia in the semifinal and then Switzerland in the bronze medal game, settling for fourth place.
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