David Murdoch

Nick Name

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Born

:17 Apr,1978

Age

:41 years, 4 months

Location

:Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

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About David Murdoch

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.

Sporting career:

2005- 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. Murdoch would avenge his defeat in 2005 by winning

the gold medal at the 2006 World Men's Curling Championship.

2006,2007-In December 2006 he won the silver medal in the European Championships in Basel, Switzerland, and followed that up with gold in 2007.

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

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

2013-In January 2013. With Murdoch as skip, they won bronze at the 2013 World Championships. The team took bronze at the 2013 European Championships

2014-n 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.