Brent Laing

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Brent Laing Curling
birthday 10th December 1978 (age 41)
place of birth Meaford,  Canada
Career
nation CanadaCanada Canada
society The Glencoe Club, Calgary
Playing position Second
Playing hand right
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2007 Edmonton
gold 2012 Basel
gold 2016 Basel
Junior World Curling ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 1998 Thunder Bay
gold 1999 Östersund
last change: December 12, 2017

Brent Laing (born December 10, 1978 in Meaford , Ontario ) is a Canadian curler . He is currently playing second in John Epping's team .

Career

Laing began his career as a lead in the John Morris team , with whom he won the 1998 and 1999 Junior World Championships . In 2002 he was with this team for the first time in the final of the Canadian men's championship The Brier and won the silver medal.

In 2004 Laing moved to Glenn Howard's team to play at the second position. With this team he became world champion twice : in 2007 with a final victory against the German team around Andreas Kapp and in 2012 with a victory over the Scottish team around Tom Brewster . In 2007 and 2012 he won the Canadian championship; In 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 he won the silver medal and in 2009 and 2013 the bronze medal.

For the 2014/2015 season, Laing moved to Kevin Koe's team . After winning the Canadian Championship in 2016 by beating Brad Gushue's team in the final , he took part in the 2016 World Championship in Basel with Team Koe for Canada . The team won ten of the eleven games of the Round Robin and beat the Danish team around Rasmus Stjerne in the page playoff game 1st against 2nd as well as in the final. At the Canadian Championship 2017 he was able to move into the final again, but lost to Brad Gushue.

In November 2017, he and Team Koe won the Canadian Roar of the Rings by beating Mike McEwen's team in the final and represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . The team was in second place after six wins and three defeats after the Round Robin . In the semifinals, the Canadians lost to Team USA led by John Shuster and the game for third place against Switzerland with Skip Peter de Cruz was also lost. It was the first time a Canadian men's team failed to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

In spring 2018 he announced his move to John Epping's team.

Private life

Laing is married to the equally successful curler Jennifer Jones . The two have two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jonathan Brazeau: Laing bids farewell to Team Howard. In: Sportsnet.ca. April 18, 2014, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Team Koe to chase Gold wearing the Maple Leaf. In: curling.ca. December 10, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Olympic skip Koe loses another teammate as Laing leaves to join Epping. In: National Post. March 19, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Betsy Helfand: Canadians Jennifer Jones, Brent Laing balance curling, family life. In: Las Vegas Review Journal. January 13, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Laing, Brent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian curler
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Meaford , Ontario