Linn Githmark

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Linn Githmark (born September 22, 1982 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian curler who has skipped her country to a world junior title, and also played in the Norway team that won a silver medal at the main world championships.

A stalwart of the team representing Norway in world junior championships since 1997, Linn was skip on all but two occasions. She had to endure indifferent placings in the competition until 2004, when she suddenly struck a rich vein of form that drove her team to the gold medal.

The timing of Linn's blossoming talent could not have been better for the main Norway women's team, which had lost the services of Hanne Woods, and desperately needed a replacement of similar calibre. Linn made her world championship debut in 2004, slotting straight into Hanne Woods' third place in the playing order. She proved an excellent foil for veteran skip Dordi Nordby in a campaign that saw Norway pick up the silver medal. Bronzes followed at the European Championships later in the year, and at the 2005 worlds.

Linn has also turned heads for considerably more than her ability on the ice, leading some to wonder if she might eventually do a little for women's curling of what Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova have done in the tennis world.

Githmark posed nude for Ana Arce's "Fire on Ice" 2007 Team Sponsorship Calendar to promote women's curling.