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Scottish Mixed Curling Championship
The Scottish Mixed Curling Championship is the national mixed curling championship for Scotland. Team are composed of two men and two women, playing in alternating positions up the team, meaning the lead and third must be of the same gender, and likewise the second and fourth players. The championship has been held annually since 1976. From 2005 to 2014 the winners progressed to represent Scotland at the European Mixed Curling Championship. Since 2015 the winners have represented Scotland at the World Mixed Curling Championship. The current champions are Luke Carson, Kirsten Bousie, Mark Taylor and Katie McMillan, who went on to win their round robin group in the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship, 2019 World Mixed Championship before losing to Germany in the quarterfinals. Team Carson beat out six other teams to claim the 2019 Championship, which was contested between 24 and 26 May at The Peak in Stirling. The 2020 edition of the tournament will take place between 22 and 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirling
Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its merchants and tradesmen, the Old Bridge and the port. Located on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town of Stirlingshire. Proverbially it is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands". It has been said that "Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together". Similarly "he who holds Stirling, holds Scotland" is often quoted. Stirling's key position as the lowest bridging point of the River Forth before it broadens towards the Firth of Forth made it a focal point for travel north or south. When Stirling was temporarily under Anglo-Saxon sway, according to a 9th-century legend, it was attacked by Danish invaders. The sound of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Muirhead
Gordon Muirhead is a Scottish curler and world champion. He was ''alternate'' for the gold medal-winning Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick, and also won silver medals in 1992, 1993 and 1995. He received a gold medal at the 1994 European Curling Championships, a silver medal in 1998 and a bronze medal in 1992. Gordon's daughter, Eve, won the women's 2022 Olympic gold for Great Britain in Beijing, the 2013 World Championship, four World Junior Curling Championships (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011), and was skip for Great Britain at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, where she won a bronze medal. His son Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ... won a World Junior Men's Championship in 2013 at Sochi, curli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hamilton (curler)
Colin Hamilton is a Scotland, Scottish curling, curler. At the national level, he is a three-time Scottish Men's Curling Championship, Scottish men's champion curler (1981, 1982, 1994) and a two-time Scottish Mixed Curling Championship, Scottish mixed champion curler (1994, 1995). Also he is a 1978 Scottish Junior Curling Championships, Scottish junior champion curler. Awards * WJCC Sportsmanship Award: Teams Men's Mixed References External links * Living people Scottish male curlers Scottish curling champions Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Loudon
Katie Loudon (born 6 July 1968 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish curler. She played for Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Teams Women's Mixed Private life Loudon is from a family of curlers: her brother Peter is a World and European champion, her sister Edith Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and vari ... was Katie's teammate, playing together at the 1998 Winter Olympics. References External links * 1968 births Living people Scottish female curlers British female curlers Olympic curlers of Great Britain Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Scottish curling champions Sportspeople from Perth, Scotland {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Torrance Jr
Alec or Aleck is a Scottish form of the given name Alex. It may be a diminutive of the name Alexander or a given name in its own right. Notable people with the name include: People * Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat *Alec Acton (1938–1994), English footballer *Alec Albiston (1917–1998), Australian rules footballer *Alec Alston (1937–2009), English footballer * Alec and Peter Graham (1881–1957), New Zealand mountaineers, guides, and hotel operators *Alec Anderson (1894–1953), American NFL player *Alec Asher (born 1991), American MLB player * Alec Ashworth (1939–1995), English professional footballer * Alec Astle (born 1949), New Zealand former cricketer * Alec Atkinson (1919–2015), British Royal Air Force officer and civil servant * Alec B. Francis (1867–1934), English silent-film actor * Alec Bagot (1893–1968), South Australian adventurer, polemicist, and politician *Alec Baillie (died 2020), American bassist *Alec Baldwin (born 1958), American actor *Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Loudon
Edith Hazard (née Loudon; born 15 February 1964 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish curler, a . She played for Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She was a member of an expert group in the World Curling Federation, who explained what kind of curling could be added as a second medal discipline to the Winter Olympics, concluding that it should be mixed doubles curling. Teams Women's Mixed Private life Hazard is from a family of curlers: her brother Peter is a World and European champion, her sister Katie Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports *Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player *Katie Clark (born 1994), Briti ... was Edith's teammate, playing together at the 1998 Winter Olympics. References External links * * 1964 births Living people Scottish female curlers British female curlers Olympic curlers of Great Britain Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Loudon
Peter Loudon (born 17 November 1966 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish curler and world champion. He is the alternate player on the David Murdoch team. He won a gold medal (with skip Hammy McMillan) at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick."Curling – Men: World Championships" Retrieved 21 March 2008 He has received two gold medals at the . Loudon competed for . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Smith (curler)
Warwick B. Smith (born 11 June 1971 in Perth) is a Scottish curler from Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross. Career Smith made his international debut at the 1996 World Curling Championships as the skip for the Scotland team. His debut was fairly successful, as the team would win the silver medal, losing to Canada's Jeff Stoughton in the final. At the 1998 Championships, Warwick would play third for David Smith and the team finished in 4th place. The following year Warwick played third for Hammy McMillan and won gold, this time beating Jeff Stoughton's team in the final. Smith was a member of the Great Britain 2002 Winter Olympics curling team. He played third for McMillan, but the team finished a disappointing 7th place. At that year's World Championship, Warwick skipped the Scotland team to a bronze medal. The following year, he skipped a team to a 7th-place finish. In 2004, he played third for Ewan MacDonald and finished 5th. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Smith played s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhona Martin
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] |
Peter Smith (curler)
Peter Smith (born 18 November 1964) is a Scottish curler. He played second for David Murdoch from 2006 to 2010, including curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Smith started curling in 1979. He plays in second position and is right-handed. He has won many prizes in his career, but never featured on the Winter Olympics medal podium. Peter Smith was the tallest male curler at the 2010 Winter Olympics at 6"2. He is nicknamed "Pistol Pete" for his notable accuracy. He is the brother of curler David Smith and the uncle of curlers Kyle Smith and Cameron Smith Cameron Smith may refer to: * Cameron Smith (rugby league, born 1983), Australian rugby league footballer * Cameron Smith (rugby league, born 1998), English rugby league footballer * Cameron Smith (golfer) (born 1993), Australian golfer * Cammy Smi .... References External links * * Video: 1964 births Living people Scottish male curlers British male curlers Olympic curlers of Great Britain Curlers at the 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Smith (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. Career In his very first international competition, the 1982 European Curling Championships, Smith won a gold medal playing second for Mike Hay. Hay and Smith were still juniors at the time and they won three straight bronze medals at the World Junior Curling Championships in , and . In the meantime, they won a bronze medal at the . By 1986, Smith was skipping his own team. He won a silver medal at his second that year. His Scottish team lost to Canada, skipped by Ed Lukowich in the final 4-3. Two years later, he skipped the British team to an eighth-place finish at the 1988 Winter Olympics (curling was just a demonstration sport). That same year he won a bronze at the World Championships. Still in the same year, he won a second gold medal at the European Curling Championships. In 1990 he won another silver medal at the World Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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) {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
