Mike Hay

Last updated

Mike Hay is a Scottish curler and curling coach.

As a player, he had success from 1982 to 1996. [1] He went on to coach the women's team that won gold in Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics and, partly due to this, was appointed as an MBE in 2004. [2] He later served as Britain's Olympic performance manager at the 2010 Winter Olympics. [3] After this he became Chef de Mission for Team GB for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a role he also held at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He is brother to David Hay [4] and son of curler Chuck Hay. [5]

Contents

Awards

Related Research Articles

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games. She was part of the BBC's Winter Olympics commentary team for the Curling at the Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018 and Beijing 2022.

Rhona Howie, MBE, better known under her married name, Rhona Martin, is a British curler most famous for skipping the British women's team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team claimed the gold medal. She has also skipped for the Scotland curling team at both the World and European Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Murdoch</span> Scottish curler (born 1978)

David Matthew Murdoch is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal. He served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling since September 2018, before being named Curling Canada's high-performance director in early 2023.

Warwick B. Smith is a Scottish curler from Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Torger Nergård</span> Norwegian curler

Torger Nergård, also spelled Nergaard is a Norwegian curler from Oslo.

Peter Smith is a Scottish curler. He played second for David Murdoch from 2006 to 2010, including curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

David Hay is a Scottish curler.

David Smith is a Scottish curler. He is the brother of curler Peter Smith and the father of curlers Mili Smith, Kyle Smith and Cameron Smith.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eve Muirhead</span> Scottish curler (born 1990)

Eve Muirhead is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Håvard Vad Petersson</span> Norwegian curler and Olympic medalist

Håvard Vad Petersson is a Norwegian curler from Arendal who was the long time lead for Team Thomas Ulsrud. He is currently the coach of the Yannick Schwaller rink.

Tyler George is an American curler from Duluth, Minnesota. He is a three-time U.S. Champion, 2016 World bronze medalist, and 2018 Olympic gold medalist. Since the 2018 Olympics, he has taken a break from playing competitive curling, instead spending time as an ambassador and coach for the sport.

Thomas Brewster Jr. is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently the coach of the Ross Paterson men's team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Sloan</span> Scottish curler

Anna Sloan is a Scottish curler. She was the longtime third for the Eve Muirhead rink. Representing Scotland, they won the 2011 European Championships, the 2013 World Championships, and the 2017 European Championships. Representing Great Britain, they won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Games and finished fourth at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Michael Goodfellow is a retired Scottish curler. He currently is employed as a coach for Scottish Curling.

Cameron "Cammy" Smith is a retired Scottish curler from Perthshire. He was the longtime lead for his brother Kyle. During his career, he competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, placing fifth. He also played for Scotland at two European Curling Championships, two World Junior Curling Championships and the 2013 Winter Universiade, winning the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships.

Thomas Brandon Muirhead is a retired Scottish curler from Blair Atholl. He was the longtime third for the Kyle Smith rink. During his career, he competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, placing fifth. He also played for Scotland at two European Curling Championships, two Winter Universiade and three World Junior Curling Championships, winning the event in 2013. Muirhead's brother Glen and sister Eve are also British curlers, and their father Gordon is also a former professional curler.

James Douglas Lind is a Canadian curler and coach. He led three different Japanese curling club teams at Olympic Games in 2014 Sochi and in 2018 PyeongChang as the national coach, and brought five bronze medals to Japanese women's team in 2018.

Kirsty Hay is a Scottish curler, a two-time European silver medallist and a three-time Scottish women's champion.

Gert Munch Larsen is a Danish curler and curling coach.

Hailey Caitlin Rose Duff is a Scottish curler from Forfar. She is the 2022 Olympic Champion in women's curling.

References

  1. World Curling Federation profile of Mike Hay Archived 2012-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. BBC Sport
  3. "Hi-tech team leaves no stone unturned for Vancouver Games by Andrew Longmore in The Australian
  4. Perthshire Advertiser for April 16 2013
  5. Ottawa Citizen - March 7, 1984
  6. "World Curling Federation on the Award". Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2013.