Tahli Gill
Australian curler (born 1999)
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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. Gill and Hewitt are also the first Australian team to ever win a World Curling Championship title, winning the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.[3]
| Tahli Gill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 September 1999 Sydney, Australia[1] |
| Team | |
| Skip | Tahli Gill |
| Third | Kirby Gill |
| Second | Oh Sun-yun |
| Lead | Lucy Militano |
| Alternate | Ivy Militano |
| Mixed doubles partner | Dean Hewitt |
Curling career  | |
| Member Association |  Australia |
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 7 (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026) |
| Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2018) |
| Olympic appearances | 1 (2022) |
Medal record | |
Career
Women's
Gill started curling at age 11.[2] Her mother Lynette is also a curler,[4] 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.[5] They then represented Australia at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Championship, where they finished in sixth place out of the seven teams.[6]
Mixed doubles
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.[7] Their fourth-place finish is the best finish ever for an Australian team at any world curling championship.[4]
Gill decided to focus solely 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.[8] 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.[9] At the Olympics, they finished with a 2–7 record, finishing in 10th place.
Gill and Hewitt would continue to focus on mixed doubles for the next Olympic quadrennial from 2022–26, and would continue to perform well on the mixed doubles curling tour, consistently being ranked as one of the top 5 teams in the world.[10] They would also notably win a bronze medal at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. This success would allow them to compete in the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event in the hopes of representing Australia at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Gill and Hewitt would finish round robin play with a 6–1 record, qualifying for the playoffs, but would lose to South Korea's Kim Seon-yeong and Jeong Yeong-seok 10–5 in the final qualification game, failing to reach the Olympics. However, Gill and Hewitt would bounce back at the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they would finish 8–1 after the round robin and after beating Italy in the semifinals, would go on to defeat Sweden's Therese Westman and Robin Ahlberg 8–4 in the gold medal game to win their first world championship, as well as the first world championship title in curling ever for Australia.[3]
Personal life
Outside of curling, Gill worked in a gelateria and attended the Queensland University of Technology.[11][12]
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  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 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 2024 WMDCC (15th) |
| 2024–25 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | Perry Marshall | 2025 WMDCC  |
| 2025–26 | Tahli Gill | Dean Hewitt | Perry Marshall | OQE 2025 2026 WMDCC |
