John Bryden (19272012) was a Scottish curler. He competed in four World Championships, winning the gold medal in

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Curling career

He played

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Chuck Hay Charles Hay, MBE (23 April 1930 – 4 August 2017) was a Scottish curler and World Champion. He skipped the Scottish team that won the 1967 World Curling Championships, known then as the Scotch Cup. The other members of the Scottish team were ...

's team out of the Kilgraston & Moncrieffe Curling Club in

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during a very successful run in the 1960s. In the span of six years the team won the Scottish Men's Championship five times, earning them the right to represent Scotland at the

World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's an ...

in those years. At World's in

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, and

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the Hay rink took home the silver medal, with Canada winning the Championship each of those years. At the 1967 World Men's Championship they defeated Team Sweden, skipped by Bob Woods, in the final to win Scotland's first World Men's Championship. In the 1980s Bryden returned to competitive curling on Bill Muirhead's senior men's team, winning the

Scottish Senior Curling Championships The Scottish Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best senior-level men's and women's curling teams in Scotland. Senior level curlers must be over the age of 50 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tou ...

five years in a row.

Personal life

Bryden worked as a farmer in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryden, John 1927 births 2012 deaths Scottish male curlers World curling champions Scottish curling champions 20th-century Scottish farmers People from Perthshire 21st-century British farmers