Bob Martin (curler)

Bob Martin
Curler  ♂
Team
Curling club	Province of London CC, London) [1] [2]
Curling career
Member Association	England
World Championship appearances	2 (1985, 1987)
European Championship appearances	4 (1981, 1984, 1985, 1986)

Bob Martin (born c. 1953) ^[3] is a Scottish-English male curler. ^[4]

At the national level, he is a four-time English men's champion curler (1982, 1984, 1985, 1986). ^[5]

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Events
1981–82	Bob Martin	Ronald D. Thornton	John D. Kerr	Michael Thompson	ECC 1981 (9th)
	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	John Brown	Duncan Stewart	EngMCC 1982
1983–84	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	Ian Coutts	Duncan Stewart	EngMCC 1984
1984–85	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	Ian Coutts	John Brown	ECC 1984 (5th) EngMCC 1985 WCC 1985 (10th)
1985–86	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	Ian Coutts	John Brown	ECC 1985 (7th)
	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	Robin Gemmell	John Brown	EngMCC 1986
1986–87	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	Robin Gemmell	John Brown	ECC 1986 (10th)
	Bob Martin	Ronnie Brock	John Brown	Robin Gemmell	WCC 1987 (10th)

Personal life

Martin is originally from Edinburgh. At the time of the 1985 World Championship, he was working in Abidjan, Ivory Coast as an accountant for an oil company. ^[3] At the time of the 1987 Worlds, he was living in Fulham, ^[6] and was married. ^[7]

References

1. "Province of London Curling Club - SportFocus". Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
2. London Curling Club (web archive)
3. "Wanderlust leads to epoch-making challenge". The Observer. 24 March 1985. p. 46. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
4. Bob Martin at World Curling
5. Men’s Championship – English Curling Association
6. "Scotland qualify for Calgary". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 1987. p. 25. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
7. "World curling facts". The Province. 29 March 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 13 April 2022.

External links

• Bob Martin at World Curling
• "Curling History: The Curling Image Project (Week 10)". 9 November 2018. (look at "CIP-64")
• "Curling - Edinburgh University Sports Union". (look at "1973-74")