Mike Farbelow

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Mike Farbelow
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St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
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Team
SkipMike Farbelow
ThirdRich Ruohonen
SecondBill Stopera
LeadDarren Lehto
Other appearancesWorld Senior Curling Championships: 3 (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Mike Farbelow (born March 30, 1963, in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American curler. He lives in Minneapolis.

Career

Farbelow began curling in 1977. Farbelow made appearances at the United States Men's Curling Championship in 1985, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. He served as alternate on Team Jacobson at the 2011 national championships. Farbelow is also the 2007 National club champion, 1985 Minnesota state champion,[1] and the 1981 and 1983 Minnesota junior champion.[2]

Farbelow led his rink to a fifth-place finish in 2009, when he was the winner of the Ann Brown Sportsmanship Award; he won the award again in 2013. He then skipped his team to a silver medal at the 2010 U.S. Men's Championships, where they lost the gold medal match to Pete Fenson's rink. It was Farbelow's fourth trip to the U.S. championships and his first medal finish.[3] Farbelow played in the 2009 United States Olympic Curling Trials.

Farbelow led his senior curling team to US titles in 2017, 2024, and 2025. In 2024 his team placed 2nd in the World Championships held in Ostersund, Sweden.

Farbelow was the former President of Medistim USA Inc.

Personal life

Farbelow is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and was formerly employed with Medistim where he served as President of the US team.[citation needed]

Farbelow's father Bill served as national technical director of the U.S. Curling Association in the 1990s.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Minnesota Curling Association: Men's Champions Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  2. ^ Minnesota Curling Association: Junior Men's Champions Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fenson team wins Nationals; headed back to Italy".
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brothers, Bruce (23 October 1994). "Curling sweeps him away". Saint Paul Pioneer Press.

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