David Murdoch MBE | |
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Born | 17 April 1978 Dumfries, Scotland |
Team | |
Curling club | Curl Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland |
Curling career | |
World Championship appearances | 8 (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017) |
European Championship appearances | 11 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) |
Olympic appearances | 3 (2006, 2010, 2014) |
Medal record |
David Matthew Murdoch[1] MBE (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling.[2] 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 Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal.[3] He served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling since September 2018, before being named Curling Canada's high-performance director in early 2023.[4]