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Collie Campbell Memorial Award
The Collie Campbell Memorial Award was created in honour of Canadian Collie Campbell, who served as president of the International Curling Federation The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation (ICF), when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made. ..., now known as the World Curling Federation, from 1969 until his death in 1978. It is presented to the male curler "who best displays the ideals of sportsmanship and skill" during the World Curling Championships. The winner is selected by his fellow curlers in the tournament. Winners References External linksWorld Curling Federation: Colin Campbell Award* {{official website Curling trophies and awards Sportsmanship trophies and awards Awards established in 1979 World Curling Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Campbell (Ontario Politician)
Colin Alexander "Collie" Campbell (17 January 1901 – 25 December 1978) was a Canadian mining engineer, politician and curling administrator. Campbell was the president of the International Curling Federation from 1968 to 1978 and served as a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Shedden, Ontario. Biography Campbell attended school at Lawrence Station and high school in Dutton before further studies at Queen's University. His father was active in local politics for more than three decades. He was elected to Parliament at the Frontenac—Addington riding in a by-election on 24 September 1934 and re-elected in the 1935 federal election. Campbell resigned on 11 August 1937 before the end of the 18th Canadian Parliament to enter provincial politics at the 1937 Ontario election. He was defeated on election day in the provincial district of Addington, but subsequently contested a by-election in Sault Ste. Marie after newly elected member Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Mariani (curler)
Marco Mariani (born 14 June 1968, in Venice) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, Italy. Mariani competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics inTurin, Italy, where he finished in 7th place. He is currently the coach of the Chinese women's curling team and took them to 7th place at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Personal life Mariani is married and has one daughter. Awards *Collie Campbell Memorial Award The Collie Campbell Memorial Award was created in honour of Canadian Collie Campbell, who served as president of the International Curling Federation The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with ..., 2005 References 1968 births Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Italian male curlers Living people Olympic curlers for Italy Italian curling coaches Sportspeople from Cortina d'Ampezzo {{Italy-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Roxin
Nils Göran Roxin (born December 17, 1951) is a Swedish curler. (look for "Roxin, Göran") He is a two-time (1981, 1986), a 1986 Swedish men's champion and five-time Swedish mixed champion (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985). Awards *Collie Campbell Memorial Award: 1987 *In 1988 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Teams Men's Mixed Personal life His three brothers – Claes (twin brother), Björn Bjorn (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less oft ... and Lars-Eric – are also curlers. References External links * Living people 1951 births Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions Swedish twins 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Bakke
Bo Sven Sune Bakke (born 3 May 1955 in Asker) is a Norwegian curler and world champion. He participated on the winning team in the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics. International championships Bakke is two times world champion, and has obtained one silver medal at the European Curling Championships The European Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments held in Europe between various European nations. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December. The tournament also acts as a qualifier for the World ...."European Championships" – European Curling Federation (Retrieved on March 17, 2008) References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Stjerne
Tommy Stjerne (born 20 July 1957 in Copenhagen) is a Danish curler. Stjerne curls out of Hvidovre Curling Club outside Copenhagen. He has represented Denmark in the 1977, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1998 World Curling Championships. His best finish was a bronze in 1990. He skipped his team to win the 2010 Danish Curling Championship. His son (Rasmus Stjerne) skipped the Danish team to a silver medal in the 2010 European Curling Championships. He will represent Denmark in the 2011 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Regina, Saskatchewan. His rink consists of him as skip, Per Berg as vice, Peter Andersen as second, Anders Søderblom as lead, and Jan Nebelong Jan Elgaard Nebelong (born 18 January 1955) is a Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture o ... as alternate. External links * 1957 births Danish male curl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Eggler
Markus Eggler (born 22 January 1969 in Thun) is a retired Swiss curler from Münchenstein. Eggler was the skip of the Swiss team at the , and World Junior Curling Championships. At the event, he won a bronze medal. He then skipped the Swiss team at the World Curling Championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994. He was the world champion in 1992 when his Swiss team defeated Hammy McMillan's Scottish team in the final 6-3. Eggler won a bronze at the 1994 World Championships and a bronze at the 1993 European Curling Championships. After 1994, Eggler would not return to international curling until 2000 when he played third for Andreas Schwaller at the European Championships. At the 2001 World Curling Championships, he played lead for Christof Schwaller and won the silver medal. At the 2001 European Championships, he won a silver playing second for Andreas Schwaller. Still playing second for Schwaller, Eggler won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Eggler continues to play seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Millikin
Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin (born 4 July 1957 in North Vancouver (district municipality), North Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Australian curling, curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario. Career In 1986, while still residing in the Canadian province of Ontario, Millikin played second position for Dave Van Dine's Canadian Mixed Curling Championship team. Millikin would later move to Australia and has skipped the Australian team to nine Pacific Curling Championships titles. Millikin has also participated in 11 World Curling Championships. The team's top placements have been sixth place in 1992, 1993 and 2008. Millikin also went to the 1992 Winter Olympics, skipping the Australian team to a seventh-place finish in the demonstration event. Millikin and his team used travel back to his hometown Ottawa to practice and to participate in local curling tournaments. Their team coach was Earle Morris (Canadian curler), Earle Morris, father of John Morris (curler), John Morris. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Larsen
Gert Munch Larsen (born 9 February 1960 in Hvidovre) is a Danish curler and curling coach. At the international level, he is a . At the national level, he is a ten-time Danish men's champion curler (1979, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001) and a two-time Danish mixed champion curler (2001, 2002). He participated at the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics, where Danish men's team finished sixth. As a coach of Danish women's curling team he participated at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where Danish women's team finished sixth. Awards *Collie Campbell Memorial Award: 1994. Teams Men's Mixed Record as a coach of national teams Private life He is married to fellow Danish curler Malene Krause. They are the parents of former world junior champion Mikkel Krause, skip of Denmark's team at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Larsen was coach of his son's 2009 World Junior Curling Championships The 2009 World Junior Curling Championships were held from 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peja Lindholm
Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm (born 2 June 1970 in Östersund, Sweden) is a retired Swedish curler. Lindholm is currently a coach of the Chinese Curling Association.https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/curling/athlete-profile-ncurmteam4-chn01-null-null.htm Before Niklas Edin, many regarded him as the best European skip ever. Over his two-decade curling playing career, Lindholm won three world championships as a skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004, and also being runner up in both 1998 and 2000. He is also a two-time European champion (1998 and 2001) and is a former world junior champion (). He had constant disappointment in his career though at the Olympics, where despite being one of the gold medal favorites in each of 1998, 2002, 2006 his team ended up medalless, coming closest in 2002 with a 4th-place finish. One thing he was known for was amazing success against and being the career nemesis of Kevin Martin, even running up a streak of 10 consecuti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Hasselborg
Kurt Mikael "Micke" Hasselborg (born 7 April 1954) is a Swedish curler and curling coach. (look for "Hasselborg, Mikael ”Micke”") He is a and . Awards *Collie Campbell Memorial Award: 1996. *In 1990 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Teams Record as a coach of national teams Personal life He is from a well-known Swedish curling family; his older brother and longtime teammate Stefan, niece (Stefan's daughter) Maria, and his own children: daughter Anna Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ... (2018 Winter Olympics champion) and son Marcus. References External links * * * Living people 1954 births Swedish male curlers European curling champions Swedish curling champions Swedish curling coaches {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jussi Uusipaavalniemi
Jussi Uusipaavalniemi (; born 19 June 1965 in Hyvinkää, Finland) is a Finnish male curler. He started curling in 1979 at the age of 14. He is the brother of Finnish male curler Markku Uusipaavalniemi. Awards *Collie Campbell Memorial Award The Collie Campbell Memorial Award was created in honour of Canadian Collie Campbell, who served as president of the International Curling Federation The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with ...: 1992, 1997. Teams Men's Mixed Mixed doubles References External links * * * * Video: Living people 1965 births People from Hyvinkää Finnish male curlers Finnish curling champions Sportspeople from Uusimaa {{Finland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg McAulay
Gregory McAulay (born January 2, 1960) is a Canadian World champion curler from Richmond, British Columbia. Career McAulay has been to only two Briers in his career. At the 1998 Labatt Brier, he skipped his British Columbia team to a 7-4 finish before losing to Saskatchewan (skipped by Rod Montgomery) in a tie-breaker. Two years later, McAulay was back at the Brier. In the 2000 Labatt Brier, his team of himself, Brent Pierce, Bryan Miki and Jody Sveistrup finished with an impressive 9-2 record to finish in first place after the round robin. In the playoffs, he defeated Russ Howard's New Brunswick rink twice to capture his first and only Brier title. This qualified McAulay for the 2000 Ford World Curling Championships, where he would skip the Canadian team. At the Worlds, he finished with an 8-1 record. He defeated Craig Brown's American rink in the semi-final then Peja Lindholm's Swedish rink in the final. After his World Championship victory in 2000, he has not been able ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |