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Graeme Connal (born 12 September 1969)
at Vancouver 2010 Olympics
is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a
gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
at the 1991
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."Curling – Men: World Championships"
Retrieved 21 March 2008
He received a gold medal at the
2007 European Curling Championships The 2007 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held in Füssen, Germany December 1-8, 2007. Scotland, skipped by David Murdoch, won the gold medal by beating Norway's Thomas Ulsrud 5-3 in the final. Norway had not lost a single game enteri ...
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. He was skip for the Scottish team that received a silver medal at the
1990 World Junior Curling Championships The 1990 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 18 to 24 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. It was the first World Junior Championships to include teams from Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officiall ...
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. Connal was educated at
Craigclowan Preparatory School Craigclowan School & Nursery is a private day preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13 in Perth, Scotland. History Craigclowan School and Nursery is located south of Perth. Craigclowan was established in 1952 by Richard W Noad. Noad ...
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Perth, Scotland Perth (Scottish English, locally: ; gd, Peairt ) is a city in central Scotland, on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire. It had a population o ...
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Teammates

2010 Vancouver Olympic Games *
David Murdoch David Matthew Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) 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 Champion ...
, ''Skip'' *
Ewan MacDonald Ewan MacDonald (born 17 November 1975 in Inverness, Scotland) 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 ...
, ''Third'' * Peter Smith, ''Second'' *
Euan Byers Euan Byers (born 30 July 1974) is a Scottish curler. Byers started playing curling in 1983. He plays in first position and is right-handed. Byers is a double world champion and triple European champion. Teammates 2010 Vancouver Olympic Ga ...
, ''Lead''


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* * Video: 1969 births Living people Scottish male curlers British male curlers World curling champions European curling champions Olympic curlers for Great Britain Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics People educated at Craigclowan Preparatory School {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub