Alan Glen (curler)

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Alan Glen
Team
Curling clubKilgraston & Moncrieffe
Skip Chuck Hay
Third John Bryden
Second Alan Glen
Lead Jimmy Hamilton
Career
Member AssociationFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
World Championship
appearances
5 (1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968)

Alan Glen is a Scottish curler.

He played second on Chuck Hay's team out of the Kilgraston & Moncrieffe Curling Club in Perth, Scotland during a very successful run in the 1960s. In the span of six years the team won the Scottish Men's Championship five times, [1] earning them the right to represent Scotland at the World Curling Championships in those years. At World's in 1963, [2] 1966, [3] and 1968 [4] Glen's team took home the silver medal, with Canada winning the Championship each of those years. At the 1967 World Men's Championship they defeated Team Sweden, skipped by Bob Woods, in the final to win Scotland's first World Men's Championship. [5] [6] [7]

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In 1983 Glen skipped his team of Murray Melville, Scott Symon, and Leonard Dudman to victory at the Perth Masters. [8]

Glen worked as a farmer in Perthshire. [9]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
1962–63 Chuck Hay John Bryden Alan Glen Jimmy Hamilton SMCC 1963 Gold medal icon.svg
WMCC 1963 Silver medal icon.svg
1964–65Chuck HayJohn BrydenAlan Glen David Howie SMCC 1965 Gold medal icon.svg
WMCC 1965 (4th)
1965–66Chuck HayJohn BrydenAlan GlenDavid HowieSMCC 1966 Gold medal icon.svg
WMCC 1966 Silver medal icon.svg
1966–67Chuck HayJohn BrydenAlan GlenDavid HowieSMCC 1967 Gold medal icon.svg
WMCC 1967 Gold medal icon.svg
1967–68Chuck HayJohn BrydenAlan GlenDavid HowieSMCC 1968 Gold medal icon.svg
WMCC 1968 Silver medal icon.svg
1982–83Alan Glen Murray Melville Scott Symon Leonard Dudman Perth Masters 1983 Gold medal icon.svg

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