Question: In what part of the world is the country of origin making up foreign inhabitants of the country winning the women's gold medal curling?

born in moose jaw, saskatchewan, she was part of team schmirler, the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 1998 winter olympics. this team is the only 3-time winner of the world curling championship (1993, 1994, 1997). after sandra died, she remained in the team, now skipped by jan betker for whom she currently plays. she curls out of the caledonia curling club in regina, saskatchewan and works as a systems analyst for the co-operators. <SEP> Games Gold Silver Bronze 1998 Nagano details Canada (CAN) Sandra Schmirler Jan Betker Joan McCusker Marcia Gudereit Atina Ford Denmark (DEN) Helena Blach Lavrsen Margit Pörtner Dorthe Holm Trine Qvist Jane Bidstrup Sweden (SWE) Elisabet Gustafson Katarina Nyberg Louise Marmont Elisabeth Persson Margaretha Lindahl 2002 Salt Lake City details Great Britain (GBR) Rhona Martin Deborah Knox Fiona MacDonald Janice Rankin Margaret Morton Switzerland (SUI) Luzia Ebnöther Mirjam Ott Tanya Frei Laurence Bidaud Nadia Röthlisberger Canada (CAN) Kelley Law Julie Skinner Georgina Wheatcroft Diane Nelson Cheryl Noble 2006 Turin details Sweden (SWE) Anette Norberg Eva Lund Cathrine Lindahl Anna Svärd Ulrika Bergman Switzerland (SUI) Mirjam Ott Binia Beeli Valeria Spälty Michèle Moser Manuela Kormann Canada (CAN) Shannon Kleibrink Amy Nixon Glenys Bakker Christine Keshen Sandra Jenkins 2010 Vancouver details Sweden (SWE) Anette Norberg Eva Lund Cathrine Lindahl Anna Le Moine Kajsa Bergström Canada (CAN) Cheryl Bernard Susan O'Connor Carolyn Darbyshire Cori Bartel Kristie Moore China (CHN) Wang Bingyu Liu Yin Yue Qingshuang Zhou Yan Liu Jinli 2014 Sochi details Canada (CAN) Jennifer Jones Kaitlyn Lawes Jill Officer Dawn McEwen Kirsten Wall Sweden (SWE) Margaretha Sigfridsson Maria Prytz Christina Bertrup Maria Wennerström Agnes Knochenhauer Great Britain (GBR) Eve Muirhead Anna Sloan Vicki Adams Claire Hamilton Lauren Gray 2018 Pyeongchang details Sweden (SWE) Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs Jennie Wåhlin South Korea (KOR) Kim Eun - jung Kim Kyeong - ae Kim Seon - yeong Kim Yeong - mi Kim Cho - hi Japan (JPN) Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi <SEP> Between 1820 and 1930, approximately 1.3 million Swedes, a third of the country's population at the time, emigrated to North America, and most of them to the United States. There are more than 4.4 million Swedish Americans according to a 2006 US Census Bureau estimate. In Canada, the community of Swedish ancestry is 330,000 strong.There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, around 3,193,089 (31.5%) inhabitants of Sweden were of a foreign background in 2017, defined as being born abroad or born in Sweden with at least one parent born abroad. The most common countries of origin were Syria (1.70%), Finland (1.49%), Iraq (1.39%), Poland (0.90%), Iran (0.73%) and Somalia (0.66%). Sweden subsequently has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 41.1 years. <SEP> Syria's capital and largest city is Damascus. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians, Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Isma'ilis, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, Yazidis, and Jews. Syria (Arabic: سوريا ‎ Sūriyā), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية ‎ al - Jumhūrīyah al - ʻArabīyah as - Sūrīyah) is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Sunni make up the largest religious group in Syria. <SEP> following the united states - led boycott of the moscow olympics, the soviet union and some of its allies responded by boycotting the 1984 los angeles olympics, citing security concerns. the united states won its first medals in volleyball at the los angeles games: a gold in the men's competition, and a silver in the women's. the people's republic of china won the gold medal in the women's competition in los angeles, their first time participating in an olympic volleyball competition. the united states successfully defended their men's gold medal at the 1988 summer olympics in seoul, and peru won their only medal in volleyball, a silver in the women's competition. the soviet union won a silver medal in the men's competition and a gold in the women's at what would be their final olympics. following the 1990 -- 91 breakup of the soviet union, 12 of the 15 newly independent countries competed together as the unified team in barcelona. in the women's competition, the unified team won the silver medal, and cuba won their first of three consecutive gold medals. in the men's competition, brazil won its first gold medal, and the netherlands its first overall medal in the sport.