Glen Muirhead

Glen Muirhead
birthday	10th April 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Perth , UK
Career
nation	Scotland
society	Dunkeld CC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European Curling Championships silver 2017 St. Gallen
last change: July 28, 2018

Glen Muirhead (born April 10, 1989 in Perth ) is a Scottish curler . He has been playing as Skip since the 2018/19 season.

Career

Muirhead began his international career at the 2007 Junior World Championships as a second in the Scottish team around Logan Gray ; the team came in sixth place. In the same year he played second in his father's team, Gordon Muirhead, at the Mixed European Championships; the Scots came in sixth here too. This is followed by two ninth places at the Junior World Championships in 2008 (as a skip) and 2009 (as a substitute for Graeme Black's team).

At his first European Adult Championship in 2011, he was third under Skip David Murdoch and fifth. The first World Cup participation followed in 2014 as a substitute in Ewan MacDonald's team .

Since 2014 he has been playing third in Tom Brewster's team and as a substitute for Kyle Smith's team at major international events . With this team he won the silver medal at the 2017 European Championships in St. Gallen ; in the final the Scottish team lost to the team from Sweden with Niklas Edin . A year earlier he was with Tom Brewster at the 2016 European Championships and finished sixth there. He also took part in the 2016 World Cup with Team Brewster ; the Scots came in seventh place.

Muirhead represented Great Britain as a substitute player with his teammates (Skip: Kyle Smith, Third: Thomas Muirhead , Second: Kyle Waddell , Lead: Cameron Smith ) at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . After five wins and four defeats in the Round Robin , his team was tied for fourth place with Switzerland and had to play a tie-breaker against Peter de Cruz's team to make it into the final round . The British lost 5: 9 to the Swiss and thus finished the Olympic tournament in fifth place.

Since the 2018/19 season he has played as Skip with Kyle Smith as third, Thomas Muirhead as second and Cameron Smith as lead.

Private life

Glen Muirhead is the son of British curler Gordon Muirhead, who finished fifth with his team in the demonstration competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . His younger brother Thomas plays in Kyle Smith's team and his younger sister Eve is a very successful curler, including world champion and two-time European champion.

Web links

• Glen Muirhead on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Glen Muirhead, Biography. Team GB, accessed January 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ British Curling Announces Program Teams 2018-19. In: British Curling. July 11, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 .