Ewan MacDonald

Ewan MacDonald
birthday	17th November 1975
place of birth	Inverness
Career
nation	Scotland
job	Businessman
society	Citadel Curbing Club
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 3 × 5 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 1 × M-EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World Curling Championship gold 1999 Saint John bronze 2002 Bismarck silver 2005 Victoria gold 2006 Lowell gold 2009 Moncton European Curling Championship gold 1999 Chamonix bronze 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen silver 2006 Basel gold 2008 Örnsköldsvik Mixed European Curling Championship gold 2012 Erzurum silver 2013 Edinburgh
last change: November 29, 2017

Ewan MacDonald (born November 17, 1975 in Inverness ) is a Scottish curler . He plays in the third position .

MacDonald took part internationally with the Scottish team for the first time in the Junior World Championship in 1997 in Karuizawa , Japan , where they only achieved seventh place out of ten participants. Still, he made his debut as a runner-up on Hammy McMillan's team at the 1999 Men's Curling World Championship . There the Scottish team beat the Canadian in the final and became world champions. In the same year he succeeded, again as second , European championship title , for which Denmark was beaten in the final. Two years later , the Scottish team failed to defend the title and only finished fifth. At the 2002 Olympic curling competitions in Salt Lake City , where MacDonald started for Great Britain, his team only achieved seventh place.

From 2002 onwards, MacDonald took part in the Curling World Championships for Scotland every year, first taking bronze in 2002 and silver in 2005 . In 2004 , the Scot was even the skipper of his crew, a year later he was used as an alternate. After MacDonald had won the bronze medal at the 2005 European Championships , this time again in second , the British team narrowly missed a medal in fourth at the Winter Olympics , here MacDonald played third for the first time in his current position . In the year of the Olympic Games, Scotland became world champion again in 2006 after a seven-year break, and also vice-European champion. At the 2007 World Cup, he failed to defend his title in ninth place, but Scotland won the 2008 European Championship again for the first time since 1999 .

As Third MacDonald played at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in Team UK with Skip David Murdoch , Second Peter Smith , Lead Euan Byers and alternate Graeme Connal . The team took fifth place.

In 2012 he won the gold medal at the Mixed European Championships in 2012 as the skip of the Scottish team with Eve Muirhead , Euan Byers and Karen Barthelemy . At the Mixed European Championships in 2013 he was unable to defend the title because the final was lost 4-5 to Skip Andy Kapp's German team .

Web links

• Ewan MacDonald on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Ewan MacDonald in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )