Tahli Gill

Tahli Gill
Curler
Born (1999-09-08) 8 September 1999
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		7 (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		1 (2018)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  Australia
World Mixed Doubles Championship
Gold medal – first place2026 Geneva
Bronze medal – third place2025 Fredericton

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]

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 was the best finish ever for an Australian team at any World Curling Championship to that point.[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 WilsonMarlene Corgat-TaylorShontelle WalkerTahli GillLynette Gill2012 PAJCC (5th)
2012–13 Victoria WilsonMarlene Corgat-TaylorKelsey HamseyTahli GillSamantha JeffsLynette Gill2013 PAJCC (5th)
2013–14 Victoria WilsonSamantha JeffsTahli GillKirby GillIvy MilitanoLynette Gill2014 PAJCC (5th)
2014–15 Victoria WilsonSamantha JeffsTahli GillKirby GillIvy MilitanoLynette Gill2015 PAJCC (5th)
2015–16 Samantha JeffsTahli GillIvy MilitanoKirby GillJayna GillLynette Gill2016 WJBCC (18th)
2016–17 Samantha JeffsTahli GillIvy MilitanoKirby GillJayna GillLynette Gill2017 WJBCC (21st)
2017–18 Tahli Gill (fourth)Samantha Jeffs (skip)Ivy MilitanoKirby GillJayna GillLynette Gill2018 WJBCC (20th)
2018–19 Tahli GillLaurie WeedenLynette GillKirby GillJayna GillKen Macdonald
(PACC)		AWCC 2018 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2018 (6th)
Tahli GillIvy MilitanoJayna GillKirby GillLynette Gill2019 (Jan) WJBCC (16th)
2019–20 Tahli GillKirby GillOh Sun-yunVeronica JohnsLucy MilitanoLynette Gill2019 (Dec) WJBCC (16th)
2022–23 Tahli GillKirby GillOh Sun-yunLucy MilitanoIvy Militano

Mixed doubles

Season Female Male Coach Events
2018–19 Tahli GillDean HewittPete Manasantivongs2019 WMDCC (4th)
2019–20 Tahli GillDean Hewitt
2020–21 Tahli GillDean HewittPete Manasantivongs2021 WMDCC (13th)
2021–22 Tahli GillDean HewittJohn Morris (OQE),
Pete Manasantivongs		OQE 2021 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WOG 2022 (10th)
2022 WMDCC (11th)
2022–23 Tahli GillDean HewittLaura Walker2023 WMDCC (8th)
2023–24 Tahli GillDean HewittPerry MarshallAMDCC 2023 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 WMDCC (15th)
2024–25 Tahli GillDean HewittPerry Marshall2025 WMDCC 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2025–26 Tahli GillDean HewittPerry MarshallOQE 2025 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2026 WMDCC 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Tahli GILL". Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tahli Gill". Olympic winter institute of Australia. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Australia are ACE & Company World Mixed Doubles 2026 champions". World Curling. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Australia's Tahli Gill indebted to her mum for discovering curling". World Curling Federation. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Gill wins 2019 Australian Womens National Championship". CurlingZone. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2019". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  8. ↑ "Gill wins 2019 WCT Pacific Ocean Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Australia make history and qualify for Beijing 2022 Mixed Doubles Event". World Curling Federation. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "2024–25 World Curling Federation Rankings". CurlingZone. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "Tahli GILL". Lake Placid 2023 Winter World University Games. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  12. ↑ 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.
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