Jimmy Hamilton | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Curling club | Kilgraston & Moncrieffe | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skip | Chuck Hay | ||||||||||||||||||||
Third | John Bryden | ||||||||||||||||||||
Second | Alan Glen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lead | Jimmy Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||||
Curling career | |||||||||||||||||||||
World Championship appearances | 1 (1963) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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James Hamilton is a Scottish curler. Hamilton played lead on Chuck Hay's team from the Kilgraston & Moncrieffe Curling Club in Perth, Scotland during the 1963 World Curling Championships known as the Scotch Cup. [1] [2] The team finished second out of the four teams that participated that year. [3]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
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1962–63 | Chuck Hay | John Bryden | Alan Glen | Jimmy Hamilton | SMCC 1963 WMCC 1963 |
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