Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish
curler. He is an Olympic silver medallist, having
skip
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ped Great Britain to a second place finish in the
men's team event at the
2022 Winter Olympics
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.
Career
Mouat had a very successful junior career, winning two Scottish junior championships in 2015 and 2016. He skipped the Scottish team at the
2015 World Junior Curling Championships
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, where he led his team of
Duncan Menzies,
Derrick Sloan
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and
Angus Dowell to a bronze medal. The team had a 6-3 round robin record, which was good enough for third place. They lost to Sweden in the 3 vs. 4 playoff game, but won in a re-match against the Swedes in the bronze medal game. Mouat would again skip Scotland at the
2016 World Junior Curling Championships, this time with teammates
Bobby Lammie
Bobby Lammie (born 10 February 1997) is a Scottish curler, originally from Stranraer. He currently plays second on Team Bruce Mouat.
Career Juniors
Lammie has been a part of the Mouat rink since 2015 when they were in juniors. Lammie was the ...
,
Gregor Cannon
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along with Dowell again. The team posted a 7-2 record after the round robin, in second place. In the playoffs, they would beat the United States in the 1 vs. 2 game, and beat them again in the final to claim the gold medal.
Mouat would skip the British team at the
2017 Winter Universiade
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. He led the team of Lammie, Cannon and Sloan to an undefeated record en route to claiming the gold medal.
Mouat has represented Scotland at five
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments featuring the world's best teams of mixed doubles curlers.
History
The tournament began in 2008 with the 2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Switzerland's m ...
s with partner
Gina Aitken
Gina Aitken (born November 17, 1993) is a Scottish curler from Edinburgh. She won a silver medal as skip of the Scottish women's team at the 2015 World Junior Curling Championships and has competed in the World Mixed Doubles Curling Champions ...
. At the
2013 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship they finished 7th, in
2014
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they finished 9th, in
2016
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they finished fourth (their best finish to date),and in
2017
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they finished in 11th place.
On the World Curling Tour, Mouat won his first tournament at the 2015
Dumfries Challenger Series along with teammates Menzies, Lammie and Cannon. He played in his first
Grand Slam
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event at the
2016 Humpty's Champions Cup
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due to his winning the 2016 World Junior title. There, his rink managed a 2-2 record, before losing to
Steve Laycock
Stephen "Steve" Laycock (born October 29, 1982 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He currently skips his own team out of Saskatoon.
Career
In 2003, Laycock skipped Team Saskatchewan to a Canadian Junior Curling Ch ...
's team in a tiebreaker.
Mouat won his second WCT event at the 2017
Stu Sells Oakville Tankard
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with teammates
Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow.British Curling profile He currently plays third for the Bruce Mouat rink. He is the nephew of 1999 world champion Hammy McMillan.
Career University
While attending the Univer ...
, Bobby Lammie and
Hammy McMillan Jr.
Hamilton "Hammy" McMillan Jr. (born 29 May 1992) is a Scottish curler from Stranraer. He currently plays lead for Bruce Mouat and was part of Tom Brewster's Scotland team at 2016 European Curling Championships. He is a 2013 world junior and 20 ...
It was the beginning of a very successful
2017–18 curling season. The team stayed in Oakville and won the
Biosteel Oakville Fall Classic the following week, defeating the same team,
Kim Chang-min
Kim Chang-min (born September 4, 1985 in Uiseong County) is a South Korean curler. Kim was the skip of the South Korean men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Career Juniors
Kim's curling career began quickly, with a trip to the 1998 Pacific ...
of Korea in the final. Later on in the season, the Mouat rink would once again beat Kim in another final, this time at the
2017 Boost National
The 2017 BOOST National was held from November 14 to 19 at the Essar Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This was the third Grand Slam of Curling event of the 2017–18 curling season.
Many of the top European teams on the World Curling Tour ...
. Team Mouat won the event, capturing his first career Grand Slam title, and became the youngest skip and only the second ever non-Canadian skip to ever win a men's Grand Slam event. Later in the season, he won the
Dumfries Challenger Series and
Aberdeen International Curling Championship
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back home in Scotland. He also won his first
Scottish Men's Curling Championship
The Scottish Men's Curling Championship is the national men's curling championship for Scotland. The championship usually decides which team of curlers is sent to the World Curling Championships, World Men's Curling Championship, but in Olympic y ...
in 2018. This qualified his team to represent Scotland at the
2018 World Men's Curling Championship
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I ...
. His team finished the round robin with an 11–1 in a tie for first, but lost in the semifinal to Canada but went on to beat Kim Chang-min's South Korean team in the bronze medal game. Mouat played in three other slams that season, failing to qualify at the
Canadian Open, making it to the quarterfinals of the
Players' Championship
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From 2016 to 2019, it was the penultimate slam of the curling season, and the last of the four "majors". The even ...
and the semifinals at the
Champions Cup.
Mouat's first major bonspiel of the
2018–19 curling season came in September at the
first leg of the
Curling World Cup
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Histor ...
, where he led his team to a third place finish. Two weeks later, he played in the
Elite 10 Grand Slam event, where his team won just one game. A month later, he was more successful at the
Masters Grand Slam, making it to the semifinals. A month later, Mouat made his debut at the
2018 European Curling Championships. After finishing the round robin there with a 7–2 record, Mouat then beat Italy and Sweden in the playoffs to claim the gold medal. Mouat wrapped up the calendar year with another third place finish at the
second leg of the Curling World Cup, and losing in the finals of the
2018 National
The 2018 BOOST National was held from December 11 to 16 at the Conception Bay South Arena in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador. This will be the fourth Grand Slam and second major of the 2018–19 curling season.
The first all-S ...
in the first all-Scotland Grand Slam final against
Ross Paterson
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. The team began 2019 by winning the
Mercure Perth Masters
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, followed by a quarterfinal finish at the
2019 Canadian Open. The team then went back to Scotland to defend their Scottish championship, which they won, sending them on a trip to the
2019 World Men's Curling Championship
The 2019 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 30 to April 7 at the ENMAX Centre in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Qualification
The foll ...
. There, Mouat led the team to an 8–4 round robin record, and then lost to Canada in the playoffs. To wrap the season up, Mouat lost in a tiebreaker at the
2019 Players' Championship, and made it to the semifinals at the
2019 Champions Cup (curling)
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.
Team Mouat played in four slams during the
2019–20 curling season
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, making it to the semifinals at the
2019 Masters and
2019 National, losing in a tiebreaker at the
2019 Tour Challenge
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In the men's tier 1 final, Brad Jacobs of ...
, and making it to the quarterfinals of the
2020 Canadian Open. The team won just one event on Tour, defending their championship at the Mercure Perth Masters. In February, Team Mouat won the Scottish Men's Championship again, and Mouat himself won the
Scottish Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
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with
Jennifer Dodds
Jennifer Carmichael "Jenn" Dodds (born 1 October 1991) is a Scottish curler. She currently plays mixed doubles with Bruce Mouat, representing Scotland and Great Britain. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in women's curling and the 2022 World ch ...
a few weeks later. By March, the season came to abrupt end due to the outbreak of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
For much of the
2020–21 curling season, there was not much of a Tour due to the pandemic, but Mouat and his team won a series of domestic Challenges put on by the
British Curling Association, including a series of mixed doubles wins with Dodds. A "curling bubble" was set up in
Calgary
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, Canada in the Spring, which hosted a number of events, including the
2021 World Men's Curling Championship
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and two slams. Mouat represented Scotland at the 2021 Worlds, where he led his team to a 9–4 round robin record. In the playoffs, they beat Canada, RCF (Russia), making it to the final, where lost to Sweden, skipped by
Niklas Edin
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. A week later, Team Mouat played in the
2021 Champions Cup in the same bubble, winning the event, defeating Team
Brendan Bottcher
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(who had been Team Canada at the Worlds) to claim their second career Slam title. The team continued their impressive run in the bubble during the next event, the
2021 Players' Championship
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, it was announced that both the Players' Championship a ...
. They would go through pool play as the only undefeated team on both the men's and women's sides with a 5-0 record, earning the team a bye to the semifinals. In the playoffs, they continued their undefeated streak, winning the semis and the finals, against
Brad Gushue
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to win their second straight Slam title in just six days.
At the
2021 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Mouat and Dodds finished first in their round-robin group, only losing one game. In the playoffs, they defeated Team Canada in the semifinals and then Team Norway in the final to win the gold medal. Their finish also qualified Great Britain for the mixed doubles discipline at the
2022 Winter Olympics
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.
In October 2021, Mouat was announced by British Curling to be the first British curler to represent the country in both the mixed doubles and men’s team disciplines. He and Dodds would compete in the mixed doubles event, along with his regular team and fifth
Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998) is a Scottish curler. He is a two-time European champion and an Olympic silver medallist. He lives in Stirling, Scotland.
Personal life
Whyte is currently studying Sports Studies at the University of Stirling. ...
in the men’s tournament. Mouat had another stellar season in
2021–22. His team started the year by winning the 2021
Stu Sells Oakville Tankard
The Stu Sells Oakville Tankard (also known as the OCT Championships) is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour. Except for in 2020, the event has been held at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario. The event wa ...
, and then followed that up with winning the
2021 Masters, the
2021 National, and the
2021 European Curling Championships
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before heading into the Olympics. At the Olympics, he led Great Britain to an 8–1 round robin record, in first place overall. In the playoffs, he beat the defending champion
John Shuster
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rink from the United States before losing the gold medal to Sweden, skipped by
Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF ...
. He had less success in the mixed doubles discipline, going 6–3 in the round robin. In the mixed doubles playoffs, he and Dodds lost to Norway in the semifinal and Sweden in the bronze medal game. Team Mouat continued their success after the Olympics, winning their third slam of the season at the
2022 Players' Championship
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. Following their win, the team was awarded the Pinty's Cup as the season's best Grand Slam team. In their final event of the season, Team Mouat finally faltered, failing to qualify for the playoffs at the
2022 Champions Cup.
Personal life
Until 2017, Mouat was a student at
Edinburgh Napier University
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and is a member of the
Gogar Park Curling Club. He lives in
Stirling, Scotland
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. Mouat is openly gay.
Grand Slam record
References
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1994 births
Scottish male curlers
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Alumni of Edinburgh Napier University
Universiade medalists in curling
European curling champions
Continental Cup of Curling participants
Universiade gold medalists for Great Britain
Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
World mixed doubles curling champions
LGBT sportspeople from Scotland
Gay sportsmen
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Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in curling
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