David Murdoch

Curling
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2014 Sochi
Representing Scotland
World Championships
	2006 Lowell
	2009 Moncton
	2005 Victoria
	2008 Grand Forks
	2010 Cortina d'Ampezzo
	2013 Victoria
World Junior Championships
	1995 Perth
	1996 Red Deer
	1998 Thunder Bay
European Championships
	2003 Courmayeur
	2007 Füssen
	2008 Örnsköldsvik
	2006 Basel
	2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
	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.

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,^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] In October 2013, he was selected to skip the Great Britain squad at the 2014 Winter Olympics.^[3] where he won a silver medal, losing to Canada's Brad Jacobs in the final. His 12 sensational curling matches as skip of the Team GB men at the Sochi Olympics saw his last stones win crucial games to famously include a vital play off against Norway in which his shot was dubbed by national press as ‘shot of the century’ to make the semi-finals and then an equally brilliant last shot against Sweden to secure a silver medal and Olympic final place. The silver medal win was the first for Team GB men’s curling since the 1924 games. Curling coverage at Sochi was seen for 30 hours and was the most talked about sport on social media.

David has commentated and taken part in studio analysis on curling for Eurosport for many years and Channel 4 for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. He has appeared recently on many TV & Radio shows including: Sport Relief 2014, Daybreak, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Sky Sports, Sky 1’s Game Changers, BT Sport’s Panel with Tim Lovejoy and Matt Dawson, BBC Radio 2 with Anneka Rice, BBC 5live with Danny Baker and Shelagh Fogarty, Talksport and recently being a winning panellist on A Question of Sport.^[4] As a lottery funded athlete, he has also had the pleasure to officially release the National Lottery draw live on BBC alongside Kate Garraway to over 10 million viewers. Upcoming TV already recorded includes the entire team on Eggheads for BBC2 to be seen in February 2015. The team won the Daily Record ‘Team of the year’ award at the recent Our Heroes ceremony. David is a keen supporter of many charities and good causes, his charity work includes giving out Duke of Edinburgh awards regularly, most recently at Holyrood in the presence of HRH Prince Phillip. He and his King Charles spaniel also recently supported the PDSA at a charity campaign photo shoot. He has also taken part in a charity curling calendar featuring as one of the world’s elite curlers. Recently David and the team supported Sport Relief at a special night televised by the BBC in London with Lord Coe and many summer Olympic legends at the Olympic park and later flew up to Glasgow to launch the Sport Relief mile.

Personal

David Murdoch is from a talented curling family being the brother of Olympic coach Nancy Murdoch and former European Champion Neil Murdoch.^[5]

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.^[6]

Murdoch's father, Matthew Murdoch, 70, died 12 days after watching his son win silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics.^[7]

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
T2	Played in Tier 2 event
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	2014–15	2015–16
Tour Challenge	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Q
Masters/World Cup	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q	Q	DNP	DNP	QF	Q	Q
Canadian Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q	QF
The National	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	QF	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Players' Championships	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q	DNP	SF
Champions Cup	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Q

References

↑ Curling Scoops. 2008 World Men's Curling Championship Archived 22 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Curling Scoops: Scots on Top Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
1 2 "David Murdoch and Scots curlers secure Bronze at European Championships". Hamilton Management. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
↑ David Murdoch Agent
↑ "institute of sport – sportscotland". Sisport.com. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
↑ Hodgetts, Rob. "Sochi 2014: David Murdoch relives Lockerbie plane crash". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
↑ http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/curling-star-david-murdoch-s-father-dies-1-3331673. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

David Murdoch on the World Curling Tour database

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