Ina
Forrest

Ina Forrest has reached the podium in all four of her Paralympic Winter Games appearances so far. She was a member of Canada’s gold medal winning team in 2010 and 2014 then added a bronze in 2018 in PyeongChang and 2022 in Beijing.

She has competed at 14 wheelchair curling world championships (starting in 2007) and one mixed doubles worlds, which includes three world titles and two silver medals.

Forrest, one of the world’s most decorated wheelchair curlers, was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame at a banquet during Brier week in Ottawa in February 2016. In 2025, she was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame.

She began curling in 2004 after an avid local wheelchair curler approached her while shopping and suggested she give it a try. Two weeks later she was hooked. As a member of the British Columbia wheelchair curling team, she won silver at the 2004 and 2005 Canadian National Wheelchair Curling Championships.

In 2006, she was named to the national team. Canada finished fourth at both the 2007 and 2008 World Wheelchair Curling Championships before taking the gold in 2009. A year later, Forrest made her Paralympic debut for Canada in her home province at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Champion at the 2010 and 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and bronze medallist at the 2018 and 2022 Paralympic Winter Games… Gold medallist at the 2009, 2011, and 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championships…

PERSONAL
Forrest and her husband Curtis are small business owners and have three children: Evany, Marlon and Connor. Forrest has been a member of Foster Parents International for 24 years … At age 21, she was hit by a drunk driver and was paralyzed. For the next 21 years, Forrest didn’t even consider sports focusing on her studies and family… She is also a certified scuba diver.

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

2025 Mixed doubles world championships – 6th

2023 World Championships – 2nd

2022 Paralympic Winter Games – 3rd

2021 World Championships – 5th

2020 World Championships – 2nd

2019 World Championships – 10th

2018 Paralympic Games – 3rd

2017 World Championships – 5th

2016 World Championships – 7th

2014 Paralympic Winter Games – 1st

2013 World Championships – 1st

2011 World Championships – 1st

2010 Paralympic Winter Games – 1st

2009 World Championships – 1st