Bob Woods (curler)

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Bob Woods
 
Born (1933-09-02) September 2, 1933 (age 89)
Team
Curling clubFjällgårdens CK, Stockholm
Royals, [1] Toronto
Humber Highland, Toronto [2]
Career
Member AssociationFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Flag of Ontario.svg  Ontario
World Championship
appearances
1 (1967)

Robert "Bob" Woods (born September 2, 1933 in Canada) is a Canadian-Swedish curler. [3]

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He is a 1967 World Men's silver medallist and a 1967 Swedish men's curling champion.

He introduced the long slide in Swedish curling in the 1960s. [4]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
1966–67Bob Woods Totte Åkerlund Bengt af Kleen Ove Söderström SMCC 1967 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 1967 Silver medal icon.svg [5]
1969–70Bob Woods ? ? ? Ont. 1970
1971–72Bob Woods Neil Harrison Peter KrivelJim Hedrich Ont. 1972 [6] Silver medal icon.svg

Mixed

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadEvents
1976–77Bob WoodsCarol ThompsonBill SchultzEileen Appleton CMxCC 1977

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References

  1. "Talk of the Rock - Royal Canadian Curling Club".
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0tYyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GO0FAAAAIBAJ&dq=eldon%20coombe&pg=674%2C791822 [ bare URL ]
  3. "Landslagsspelare genom tiderna – Herrar - Svenska Curlingförbundet (Swedish male national curlers)" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2019. (look for "Woods, Robert “Bob”")
  4. Swedish : "Kanadensare som införde den långa slajden i svensk curling på 60-talet."transl."Canadian who introduced the long sled in Swedish curling in the 60s."
  5. http://soudogcurling.tripod.com/WCC/1967sc.txt [ bare URL plain text file ]
  6. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wDE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VPUIAAAAIBAJ&dq=eldon%20coombe&pg=1190%2C1698617 [ bare URL ]