Wade White (born c. 1962) is a Canadian curler. He currently skips (captains) his own team based in

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. White is a two-time winner of the world senior men's curling championship, in 2018 and 2022.

Early life

White was raised in

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with his brother George. He has lived in Hinton and currently resides in

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Curling career

White has won the now-discontinued Trans-Canada Telephone Employees curling championship for Alberta four times, including 2004 White and his team won the gold medal in the 2013 Alberta Senior Curling Championships; the gold in

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; the gold in the 2017 Alberta Senior Provincial Curling Championships; and the gold in the

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, where his team beat the defending champion

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by six points and earned Canada's first gold in that competition since 2014. He competed in the

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, where his team won a bronze. He won a second Canadian Seniors title at the 2021 Canadian Senior Curling Championships. In 2022 he repeated his world senior men's curling championship win, with a team curling out of the Lac la Biche Curling Club, in Alberta. White trains out of the

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* 1960s births Curlers from Alberta Canadian male curlers Living people People from Edmonton Metropolitan Region {{Canada-curling-bio-stub