Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead 
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| birthday | 22nd April 1990 (age 30) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Perth, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Scotland
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| society | Dunkeld CC, Perth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Skip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eve Muirhead (born April 22, 1990 in Perth ) is a Scottish curler . The 2013 world champion plays in the position of skip .
Career
At the age of 16, Muirhead won her first gold medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Eveleth , USA, alongside Skip Sarah Reid . In 2008 she led her own team as a skip and again won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Östersund, Sweden. In the final she defeated the Swedish team with Skip Cecilia Östlund with 12: 8 stones.
Also in 2009 she won the Junior World Championships and won the third gold medal in a row. Since she had beaten Kelly Wood's team in the finals at the national championships , she also represented Scotland at the world championships . She had her last appearance at the Junior World Championships in 2011 , where she won gold again.
In February 2010, Muirhead took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (Canada) as a member of the British team . The team took seventh place.
Muirhead won the silver medal at the 2010 World Cup with the Scottish team . In the Canadian Swift Current , the team lost in the final against Team Germany around Skip Andrea Schöpp with 6: 8 stones after the additional end. At the 2010 European Curling Championships in Champéry , Switzerland , Muirhead won the silver medal. In the final she lost to the Swedish team around Skip Stina Viktorsson .
At the European Championships in 2011 she won the gold medal by winning the final against the Swedish team around Margaretha Sigfridsson . At the European Championships in 2012 and 2013 , she won the silver medal after losing the finals against Anna Sidorova's Russian team (2012) and Margaretha Sigfridsson's Swedish team (2013).
On March 24, 2013, she won the 2013 women's curling world championship in Riga, Latvia , making her the youngest ever title holder to hold the skip position.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won the bronze medal as the skip of Team Great Britain with a 6: 5 against Switzerland.
At the European Championships in 2014 , she was able to achieve a podium again with the bronze medal. In 2015 she made it back to the final of this competition, but lost to Anna Sidorowa as in 2012. At the European Championships in 2016 , she was among the last four, but after a defeat had to be satisfied with the game for third place, which she won against the Czech team around Anna Kubešková .
After failing to win a medal at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships (2015: fourth; 2016: fifth), she was able to win the bronze medal in 2017 by beating the Swedish team of Skip Anna Hasselborg in the game for third place.
At the 2017 European Championships in St. Gallen , she and her team were able to repeat the success of 2013 and win her second gold medal. After finishing third in the Round Robin, she beat Switzerland with Skip Silvana Tirinzoni in the semifinals and Sweden with Skip Anna Hasselborg in the final .
Muirhead and her team (third: Anna Sloan , second: Vicki Adams , lead: Lauren Gray ) represented Great Britain at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . With a third place after the Round Robin she moved into the final round, but suffered two defeats there against Sweden (Skip: Anna Hasselborg) in the semi-finals and against Japan (Skip: Satsuki Fujisawa ) in the game for third place and finally finished fourth .
She plays very successfully on the World Curling Tour and has won numerous competitions there.
Private
Eve Muirhead is the daughter of British curler Gordon Muirhead , who finished fifth with his team at the Albertville Winter Olympics. Her older brother Glen has already played for the Scottish team and her younger brother Thomas took part in the first Winter Youth Olympic Games for Great Britain in Innsbruck in 2012 .
Web links
- Eve Muirhead on Instagram
- Eve Muirhead on Worldcurling.org (English)
- British curling profile Eve Muirhead (English)
- Eve Muirhead in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scotland women are Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Champions for 2017, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 26, 2017
- ↑ Meet the Team GB curlers for PyeongChang 2018, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 17, 2017
- ↑ Eve Muirhead, worldcurl.com . Retrieved November 17, 2017
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| SURNAME | Muirhead, Eve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perth (Scotland) |