Edinburgh International

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The Edinburgh International is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place in late November at the Murrayfield Curling Club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The tournament is held in a round robin format.

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History

The tournament was started in 1922 as the Worlds Curling Championship, an open competition between Scottish curlers held at the Haymarket Ice Rink. The tournament was renamed the Edinburgh International Curling Championship in 1975 in order for the International Curling Federation to reserve the name "World Curling Championship" for the Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship at the time. It became an invitational tournament, inviting the semifinalists of the same year's World Championships, and moved venues to the Murrayfield Curling Rink. A period of decreased interest in the tournament led to the event's relegation from a highly respected international tournament to a domestic circuit tournament. In 2007, the tournament became part of the World Curling Tour and the Curling Champions Tour, the European portion of the World Curling Tour, and was slotted to be held in late November. [1] The event was dropped from the tour after 2016, and currently only consists of a senior men's and senior women's tournament. [2]

Past champions

Only skip's name is displayed before 1952. Team line-up order: skip, third, second, lead. [3]

YearWinning teamRunner up teamPurse (GBP)
Worlds Curling Championship
1922W K Jackson
1923W C Johnstone
1924 Flag of Scotland.svg Robin Welsh
1925H McCall
1926W K Jackson
1927 Flag of Scotland.svg Thomas Murray
1928E Cowper
1929W K Jackson
1930E Cowper
1931L Jackson
1932W K Jackson
1933J Hay
1934W K Jackson
1935A W Keanie
1936H Wakelin
1937H Wakelin
1938M Mather
Not held 1939–1946
1947J Robertson
1948W Scobie
1949J Walker
1950 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young
1951J McWhirter
1952 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young, Robert Young (?), John B. Pearson, J Scott [4]
1953 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young, John B. Pearson, J Scott, Robert Young
1954 Flag of Scotland.svg James Sanderson, J Cooper, A Allison, R Moffat
1955J Hamilton, W Archibald, G Baxter, J Leadbetter
1956J Neilson, J Lamb, W Sommerville, W Macgregor
1957 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young, John B. Pearson, J Scott, Robert Young
1958R T Grierson, J Agnew, J McColm, S McColm
1959 Flag of Scotland.svg William Henderson, L Tod, H Hay, N Tod
1960 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young, John B. Pearson, Robert Young, J Young
1961R B Dick, R B Dick Jnr,T L Morrison,A D Blair
1962J Sellar,A M Sellar,J Young Jnr,A G Harvey
1963J Neilson, J Lamb, W Sommerville, J Gilchrist
1964J Aitken, W Sanderson, W Carsewell, A Graham
1965 Flag of Scotland.svg Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1966 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Gerry McLaughlin, Joe Klein, Ron Taylor, Don McLeod
1967 Flag of Scotland.svg Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1968 Flag of Scotland.svg Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1969 Flag of Scotland.svg William Muirhead, George Haggart, Derek Scott, Alex Young
1970 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Young, H Colville, W Kerr, J Young
1971J Hutchinson, E Johnston, M Brown, J Prentice
1972 James C. Sanderson, Willie Sanderson, Iain Baxter, Colin Baxter
1973 James C. Sanderson, Willie Sanderson, Iain Baxter, Colin Baxter
1974J Whiteford, R Whiteford, P Aitken, D Adam
Edinburgh International Curling Championships
1975J C Bryson, J Caldwell, G Connell, J Brown
1976 Flag of Scotland.svg William Muirhead, Derek Scott, Len Dudman, Roy Sinclair
1977 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Peter Attinger, Bernhard Attinger, Mattias Neuenschwander, Ruedi Attinger
1978 Ken J. Horton, Willie Jamieson, Keith Douglas, S Cullen
1979 Flag of Scotland.svg Willie Jamieson, R W Kelly, Keith Douglas, S Cullen
1980 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, W M Dick, David Ramsay, L Pretsel
1981 Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Robert A Cowan, Robin G Copland
1982 Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Andrew McQuistin, Robert A Cowan
1983 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, James C. Sanderson, W M Dick, S Cobb
1984 Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Grant McPherson, Robert Wilson
1985 Flag of Scotland.svg Gordon Muirhead, R W Kelly, K Graham, R G Copland
1986 Peter Wilson, Norman R Brown, Hugh Aitken, Roger McIntyre
1987 Grant McPherson, R Gray, David Howie, Robert Wilson
1988 Flag of Norway.svg Eigil Ramsfjell, Sjur Loen, Dagfinn Loen, Morten Skaug
1989 Grant McPherson, Gordon Muirhead, R W Kelly, Robert Wilson
1990K Prentice, J Muir, R Aitken, B Stewart
1991 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, R W Kelly, V Moran, T Dodds
1992 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, Ms V Gumley, T Dodds, Ms E Butler
1993 Flag of Scotland.svg Mike Hay, Ms K Hay, Grant McPherson, Ms S Harvey
1994D Howden, T Manuel, W Clark, L Summers
1995 Flag of Scotland.svg Warwick Smith, David Smith, Peter Smith, David Hay
1996 Flag of Norway.svg Eigil Ramsfjell, Jan Thoresen, Anthon Grimsmo, Tore Torvbråten
1997 Flag of Scotland.svg Moray Combe, A Hannah, R Dickson, S Stewart
1998 Flag of Scotland.svg Warwick Smith, Hammy C McMillan, Ewan MacDonald, Ross Hepburn
1999 Flag of Denmark.svg Ulrik Schmidt, Lasse Lavrsen, B Hansen, C Svengaard
2000 Flag of Scotland.svg David Murdoch, N Murdoch, G McKay, S Reid
2001 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, Brian Binnie, David Ramsay, G Craik
2002 Flag of Scotland.svg Warwick Smith, Ewan MacDonald, A Smith, Peter Loudon
2003 Flag of Scotland.svg David Murdoch, Craig Wilson, Neil Murdoch, Euan Byers
2004 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Hamilton, G Patrick, S Murphy, J Boyd
2005 Flag of Scotland.svg David Edwards, P Westwood, Ross Paterson, S Gilmour
2006 Flag of Scotland.svg Peter Loudon, Graeme Connal, David Hay, M Fraser
2007A Smith, N McArthur, D Reid, M FraserFlag placeholder.svg
2008 Flag of Germany.svg Andy Kapp, Andreas Lang, Holger Höhne, Andreas Kempf Flag of Sweden.svg Göran Carlsson 12,500
2009 Flag of Scotland.svg David Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald, Peter Smith (curler), Euan Byers Flag of Scotland.svg Peter Loudon 10,000
2010 Flag of Scotland.svg Graham Shaw, Brian Binnie, Richard Goldie, Robin Niven Flag of Scotland.svg Hammy McMillan 10,000
2011 Flag of Scotland.svg Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow Flag of Scotland.svg Sandy Reid 10,000
2012 Flag of Scotland.svg Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow Flag of Germany.svg John Jahr 10,000
2013 [5] Flag of Scotland.svg David Edwards, John Penny, Scott Macleod, Colin Campbell Flag of Scotland.svg Ross McCleary 10,000
2014 [6] Flag of Finland.svg Aku Kauste, Pauli Jäämies, Leo Mäkelä, Janne Pitko Flag of the Czech Republic.svg David Šik 10,000
2015 Flag of Scotland.svg Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cammy Smith Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jaap van Dorp 10,000
2016 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Karel Kubeska, Jiri Candra, Martin Jurík, Lukáš Klíma Flag of Scotland.svg Bruce Mouat 10,300

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