| Neil Murdoch | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 November 1972 |
| Career | |
| World Championship appearances | 1 (2005) |
| European Championship appearances | 2 (2003, 2004) |
Medal record | |
Neil Murdoch (born 22 November 1972 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from nearby Lockerbie. Murdoch is a former European curling champion. [1]
Neil Murdoch won the 2003 European Championships, as second for Scotland skip David Murdoch. Neil played third for Scotland skip Craig Wilson at the 1993 (gold medalist) and 1994 World Juniors. He was also a member of Team Europe at the 2004 Continental Cup in Medicine Hat. [1]
At the 2005 World Championships, Murdoch again played second for his brother David. Team Scotland earned the silver medal, losing to Team Canada in the final. [2]
Neil Murdoch is the brother of World Curling Champion David Murdoch and Olympic curling coach Nancy Murdoch. [3] Murdoch is a veterinary surgeon. [1]
Randy S. Ferbey is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion.
The 2005 World Men's Curling Championship was held from April 2–10, 2005 at the new Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. The tournament was the first since the 1988 event that was held separately from the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship. The winner was Randy Ferbey and his team from Canada. Ferbey won his fourth world championship, the rest of his team won their third. As a country, it was Canada's 29th World Championship. Scotland won silver, and Germany bronze.
Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in the town of Pinerolo, Italy from February 13 to February 24. It proved to be the sleeper hit in terms of television ratings in Italy. According to a CBC feature, curling at the 2006 Winter Games drew 5 million viewers, eclipsing ice hockey and figure skating. This, and the success of the Italian men's curling team created a surge of interest in curling within Italy, where there was no previous tradition of the sport and only a few hundred players.
Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Aylmer, Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone born skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.
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 currently serves as a coach, performance team manager and consultant for British Curling.
Andreas "Andy" Kapp is a German curler from Unterthingau. After a number of several tournaments at the Junior, Olympic and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship. The next year however, he finished only 7th, but at the 1994 World Championships he and his team won the bronze medal. The next year, Kapp would go on to win the bronze medal once again. Two years later, at the 1997 World Championships, Kapp achieved his best showing at a World Championship, as he led his team to a silver medal, losing to Sweden's Peja Lindholm in the final. Kapp would also win his second European championships in December that year, soon before the first ever official medal Olympics for curling in Nagano. He would have a disappointing 1998 Olympics though where as one of the top medal favorites he went 1-6, finishing in last place in the 8-team field.
Glenn William Howard is a Canadian curler. Howard is one of the most decorated curlers of all time; He has won four world championships, four Briers and 17 Ontario provincial championships, including a record eight straight, from 2006 to 2013. Through 2017, he has played in 218 games at the Brier, more than any other curler in history. He has also won the 2001 TSN Skins Game.
Peter Fenson is an American curler. He was the skip of the men's rink that represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal, the first Olympic medal for the United States in curling. He has won eight national championships, the most recent in Philadelphia in March 2014, and six as skip.
Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He is the skip of the 2014 World champion Norwegian national team, a two-time European champion and Olympic silver medalist. Ulsrud is also the current holder of the record for most wins by a skip at the World Men's Curling Championship.
Ewan MacDonald is a Scottish curler. Representing Scotland, he is a three-time World Champion, playing second for Hammy McMillan in 1999 and playing third for David Murdoch in 2006 and 2009. He has also represented Great Britain at three Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City 2002, Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010.
Johan Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He is a four-time World champion and, thus, the only curler in history since the World Men's Curling Championship expanded to six teams in 1964 to skip his teams to four gold medals. He has also won more international medals as skip than any other skip in history. In addition to his World Championship gold medals, he has won a silver medal (2017) and two bronze medals. He is also a seven-time European Curling Champion, additionally winning two silver medals in those championships. He has won two Olympic medals, winning a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal the 2014 Winter Olympics. He has also made the playoffs in thirty-two Grand Slam of Curling events and skipped his team to become the first non-Canadian men's team to win any Slam, as well as the first and only men's team to win more than one Slam and the Pinty's Cup. With the same lineup in 2019, Edin and his teammates also became the first men's curling team since 2003 to win back-to-back World Curling Championships. Edin has played exclusively in the position of skip since 2007. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. 1, including for most of the 2017–18 season. Under the current World Curling Federation rankings, Team Edin is ranked among the Top 10 teams in the world.
David Smith is a Scottish curler. He is the brother of curler Peter Smith and the father of curlers Kyle Smith and Cameron Smith.
Peter Loudon is a Scottish curler and world champion. He is the alternate player on the David Murdoch team.
Eve Muirhead is a Scottish curler residing in Stirling. She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as part of Team GB and is the 2013 World Champion.
Nancy Smith is a Scottish curling coach from Stewarton, Scotland. Murdoch is a former Scottish champion and former world championship semi finalist. Murdoch is now retired from competing herself and now coaches.
Thomas Brewster Jr. is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently the coach of the Sophie Jackson women's team.
Scott Andrews is a Scottish curler from Kilmarnock.
Greg Drummond is a Scottish curler from Stirling.
Michael Goodfellow is a Scottish curler who currently throws lead rocks for the Ross Paterson rink.
Marc Pfister is a Swiss curler from Schalunen.
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