Richard P. "Rick" Lang (born December 12, 1953) is a Canadian curler from

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. He is a two-time World champion and three-time Brier champion representing

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. He currently serves as a performance consultant for

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Playing career

Lang was runner up at the 1971

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as the lead on Doug Smith's team. He later played third with

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champions

Bill Tetley William Ross Tetley (July 11, 1933 – June 9, 2003) was a Canadian curler. He was the skip of the 1975 Brier Champion team, representing Northern Ontario. The team later went on to finish third at the World Championships of that year. He is the f ...

(1975), and

Al Hackner Allan A. Hackner (born July 18, 1954), nicknamed "the Iceman", is a retired Canadian Hall of Fame curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born in Nipigon, Ontario. He is a two-time Brier and World Champion skip. He is of Ojibwa descent and is ...

(1982, 1985), winning two World championships with Hackner and a bronze medal at the Worlds with Tetley. He also skipped Northern Ontario to a gold medal at the 1981

Canadian Mixed Curling Championship The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship is the national curling championship for mixed curling in Canada. The winners of the tournament will represent Canada at the World Mixed Curling Championship. In mixed curling, the positions on a team must a ...

. Lang later skipped Northern Ontario at the 1991 and 1993 Briers. He also played third on

's Canadian Senior Men's championship team in 2006, and won a silver medal on the team at the 2007

World Senior Curling Championships The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Matches at the World Senior Championships are played in 8 ends played instead of the 10 played in most in ...

. He later became a Head Coach for the Northern Ontario curling team on both the men's and women's side, appearing in both the 2020 Brier and

Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...

Personal life

He is married to

Lorraine Lang Lorraine Lang (born October 8, 1956, Port Arthur, Ontario as Lorraine Edwards) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lang is a two-time Tournament of Hearts champion and World Champion. Curling career In 1981, Lang won ...

and has two children, Adam and

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.2018 Continental Cup Media Guide In February 2020, Lang survived a plane crash while returning home from the Scotties invitation with the team he had been coaching.

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* 1953 births World curling champions Living people Brier champions Canadian mixed curling champions Canadian curling coaches Curlers from Thunder Bay {{Canada-curling-bio-stub