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Scottish Junior Curling Championships
The Scottish Junior Curling Championships takes place every year with eight men's and women's teams playing off to try to win the title and represent Scotland at the World Junior Curling Championships. The host city is Aberdeen, where the curling takes place at Curl Aberdeen. The Scottish Junior Curling Championships dates back to 1975. However, the Annual of the RCCC for 1971-72 includes a photograph of Winners of the Scottish Junior Championship at Aberdeen: J. Miller (lead), D. Halkerston (2nd), P. Drysdale (3rd), John McLaren (skip), being presented with trophy.The Royal Caledonian Curling Club, ''The Annual of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club for 1971-72'' (Edinburgh: Royal Caledonian Curling Club), page unnumbered. , the reigning men's champion is James Craik and the reigning women's champion is Amy Bryce. Past champions References * *{{cite web, url=https://www.scottishcurling.org/past-national-champions/scottish-junior-champions-women/, title=Scottish Junior Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Junior Curling Championships
The World Junior Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competitions for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1975 and the women's since 1988. Since curling became an Olympic sport in 1998, the World Junior Curling Championship of the year preceding the Olympic Games have been held at the site of the curling tournament for the upcoming Games. The event has its origins in the International Junior Masters Bonspiel which began in 1968 and was held annually at the East York Curling Club. By 1973, the tournament began being called the International Junior Curling Championship and the World Junior Curling Championship in 1974, before being officially sanctioned in 1975. Qualification Teams qualify to participate in the World Junior Curling Championships through final rankings at the previous year's championships or through the World Junior B Curling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Brown (curler)
Norman Brown (born 10 September 1961 in Bankfoot, Perth and Kinross, Scotland) is a Scottish male curler. He is a four-time , silver and bronze medallist, played for the Great Britain team in two Winter Olympics: 1992 (where curling was a demonstration sport; 5th place) and 2002 (7th place). Brown started curling at the age of nine, when the Stranraer Stranraer ( , in Scotland also ; gd, An t-Sròn Reamhar ), also known as The Toon, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located in the historical parish of Inch in the historic county of Wigtownshire. It lies on the shores of L ... rink first opened in 1970. Teams References External links *History - British Curling 1961 births Living people People from Bankfoot Sportspeople from Perth and Kinross Scottish male curlers British male curlers European curling champions Scottish curling champions Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Brown (curler)
Tara Brown is a Scotland, Scottish curling, curler. She is a . Teams References External links * Living people Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhona Howie
Rhona Howie, MBE (born 12 October 1966, Ayrshire), 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. Career Early career Martin was long known in Scottish curling circles for her uncanny knack of repeatedly failing to win the national championships at the final hurdle, but finally won the right to appear in a major international championship in 1998, where she was skip of the Scotland team that won a silver medal at the European Curling Championships. With some significant changes in personnel, she returned to the championships in Chamonix the following year, where the team was narrowly edged out of the medal placings. In 2000, Martin's quartet won the Scottish Women's Curling Championship, defeating the team led by former Olympic skip Kirsty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Hutchinson
Carolyn Hutchinson (born c. 1968) is a Scottish curler. She is a and 1989 WJCC Bronze medallist. Teams References External links * * Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Living people 1960s births {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Dryburgh
Douglas Dryburgh (born 30 January 1966 in Inverness or Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a Scottish-Irish curler, originally from Kirkcaldy. He is a former World Junior champion skip and represented Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Career Juniors In 1986, in his fifth Scottish Junior Curling Championship championship, and his first as a skip, Dryburgh lost in the final to David Aitken, who went on to win that year's World Junior Championship. Dryburgh missed his last shot in the 10th, 11th and 12th ends of that game, gaining him a "somewhat unwarranted reputation as a 'choker'". That season, he also made it to the final of the Scottish Men's Curling Championship. losing to David Smith in the final. The next season he was finally victorious at the Scottish Junior Championship, defeating Alistair Scott in the Scottish final. He and his rink of Philip Wilson, Lindsay Clark and Billy Andrew went on to represent Scotland at the 1987 World Junior Curling Championships. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Harvey
Sheila Harvey is a Scottish curler. She is a two-time World women's silver medallist (, ). Teams References External links * Living people Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Steele
Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart (née Steele, born 22 March 1965) 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 The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ... commentary team for the Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi 2014, 2018 Winter Olympics, Pyeongchang 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022. Biography Early performances Having made her international debut at the 1983 European Curling Championships, European Championships, she went on to claim a silver medal in her first crack at the World Curling Championships, World Championships in 1985, in which she played second in the Scotland team ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Craig (curler)
Margaret Richardson (born Margaret Craig) is a Scottish curler and curling coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co .... She is a and a . Personal life Richardson began curling at age 17. She is a certified accountant and runs an insurance broking business with her husband. She has two daughters. Teams References External links * * Living people Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Torrance Jr
Isobel Hannen (born 17 December 1962 as Isobel Torrance Jr.) is a Scottish curler and curling coach. She is a . She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport. Personal life Her mother Isobel Torrance Isobel Torrance is a Scotland, Scottish curling, curler. She is a . Teams Women's Mixed References External links * Living people Scottish female curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotlan ... is a former competitive curler, and two-time Scottish women's champion. Hannen's daughter Rachel is also a competitive curler.British Curling profile of Rachel Hannen Teams Record as a coach of national teams References External links * * 1962 births Living people Scottish female curlers British female curlers Olympic curlers of Great Britain Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Scottish curling champions Scottish curling coaches {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Keiller
Russell Keiller is a Scottish curler and curling coach. He is a and a . He participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ... as a coach of Great Britain women team. Russell Keiller was appointed by the Board of Directors of British Curling in August 2014. Teams Men's Mixed Record as a coach of national teams References External links * Living people Scottish male curlers European curling champions Scottish curling champions Scottish curling coaches Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parker (curler)
John Parker may refer to: Politicians Canada *John Mason Parker (Saskatchewan politician) (1882–1960), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada * John Havelock Parker (1929–2020), commissioner of the Canadian Northwest Territories *John Parker (Canadian politician) (born 1954), former Ontario MPP and Toronto City Councillor United Kingdom *John Parker (died 1617) (1548–1617), MP for Truro, Hastings, Launceston and East Looe *John Parker (died 1619) (1548–1619), MP for Queenborough * John Parker (MP for Rochester) (fl. 1631–1680), recorder in Kent, MP for Rochester, a judge and a Baron of the Exchequer *John Parker (MP for Clitheroe) (1754–1797), MP for Clitheroe *John Parker (Whig politician) (1799–1881), British politician of the Victorian era, Privy Counsellor, 1853 *John Parker (Labour politician) (1906–1987), British politician, Labour MP for Dagenham, 1945–1983 * John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon (1735–1788), British peer and Member of Parliament *John Parker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |