David Murdoch

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David Murdoch
Born	(1978-04-17) 17 April 1978 Dumfries, Scotland
Team
Curling club	Curl Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Skip	David Murdoch
Third	Greg Drummond
Second	Scott Andrews
Lead	Michael Goodfellow
Alternate	Tom Brewster
Career
World Championship appearances	6 (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013)
European Championship appearances	11 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Olympic appearances	3 (2006, 2010, 2014)
Medal record Curling Olympic Games Silver 2014 Sochi World Championships Gold 2006 Lowell Gold 2009 Moncton Silver 2005 Victoria Silver 2008 Grand Forks Bronze 2010 Cortina d'Ampezzo Bronze 2013 Victoria World Junior Championships Gold 1995 Perth Gold 1996 Red Deer Silver 1998 Thunder Bay European Championships Gold 2003 Courmayeur Gold 2007 Füssen Gold 2008 Örnsköldsvik Silver 2006 Basel Bronze 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bronze 2013 Stavanger

David Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) is a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. 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.

Background

David Murdoch is from a talented curling family being the brother of Olympic coach Nancy Murdoch and former European Champion Neil Murdoch.

As a ten-year-old boy, Murdoch was an eyewitness to the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, the town where he grew up.

Murdoch's father, Matthew Murdoch, 70, died 12 days after watching his son win silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Sporting career

Junior

Murdoch is a two time World Junior Curling Champion – in 1995, as an alternate for Tom Brewster, Jr., and in 1996 as a lead for James Dryburgh. In 1998 he won a silver medal at the World Juniors as a third for Garry MacKay. By 1999, Murdoch had moved up to the position of skip, and led Scotland to a 6–3 record and fifth place at that year's world juniors. Four years later, he led Scotland to the European Championship title, beating Peja Lindholm's formidable Sweden team in the final.

Men's

In 2005, Murdoch went to his first ever World Championships. At the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship his Scotland rink won the silver medal after losing to Canada's Randy Ferbey in the final. The team's fine run of form ensured all four members a place in the Great Britain men's squad for the 2006 Winter Olympics, with Murdoch in the position of skip. At the Olympics, Murdoch and his team lost in the bronze medal match to Pete Fenson of the United States. Two months later, Murdoch would avenge his defeat in 2005 by winning the gold medal at the 2006 World Men's Curling Championship. Murdoch defeated Canada (skipped by Jean-Michel Ménard) in the final. In December 2006 he won the silver medal in the European Championships in Basel, Switzerland, and followed that up with gold in 2007. He successfully defended his title at the European Curling Championships 2008 against Norway's Thomas Ulsrud.

Murdoch and his team represented Scotland again at the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship, where he lost to Canada in the final.

In 2009, Murdoch once again won a gold medal for Scotland at the World Men's Curling Championship, which was held in Moncton, NB.

On 17 January 2010, Murdoch's rink became the first non-Canadian team to win the TSN Skins Game. His team won $70,500 (₤43,000) for the win.

After the 2009–10 season, Murdoch's Olympic team broke up.

In 2012, Murdoch teamed up with Tom Brewster's rink. The 2012–13 season saw them win the Edinburgh Invitational in late 2012 and the German Masters in Hamburg in January 2013. With Murdoch as skip, they won bronze at the 2013 World Championships. The team took bronze at the 2013 European Championships. In October 2013, he was selected to skip the Great Britain squad at the 2014 Winter Olympics. where he won a silver medal, losing to Canada in the final.

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
2006–07	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Warwick Smith	Euan Byers	David Hay / Craig Wilson / Pete Smith
2007–08	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Peter Smith	Euan Byers	Peter Loudon
2008–09	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Peter Smith	Euan Byers	Peter Loudon
2009–10	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Peter Smith	Euan Byers	Graeme Connal
2010–11	David Murdoch	Warwick Smith	Glen Muirhead	Ross Hepburn
2011–12	David Murdoch	Glen Muirhead	Ross Paterson	Richard Woods
2012–13	David Murdoch	Tom Brewster	Scott Andrews	Michael Goodfellow	Greg Drummond

Awards

• WJCC All-star lead: 1996
• WJCC All-star third: 1998

Grand Slam record

Key
C	Champion
F	Lost in Final
SF	Lost in Semifinal
QF	Lost in Quarterfinals
R16	Lost in the round of 16
Q	Did not advance to playoffs
DNP	Did not participate in event
N/A	Not a Grand Slam event that season

Event	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14
Masters/World Cup	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q	Q	DNP	DNP	QF
Canadian Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The National	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	QF	DNP	DNP	DNP
Players' Championships	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP