Kyle Waddell
Kyle Waddell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 15th December 1993 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Bellshill , UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nation | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Dewars Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Third | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: July 26, 2018 |
Kyle Waddell (born December 15, 1993 in Bellshill ) is a Scottish curler . Since the 2018/19 season he has played third in the team around Skip Ross Paterson .
Career
Waddell began his international career at the 2012 Junior World Championships , where he was second in the Scottish team led by Kyle Smith to win the bronze medal. At the Junior World Championship in 2013 he was world champion with the team. When he last participated in 2014 , he again achieved a podium with a silver medal.
At the 2013 Winter Universiade , he won the silver medal as second on the team from the Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh.
At the European Championships 2017 in St. Gallen , Waddell was able to move into the final against the Swedish team of Niklas Edin after a semi-final victory against Switzerland (Skip: Peter de Cruz ) ; the Scots lost 10: 5 there, as the Swedes managed to steal four stones in the end.
Waddell and his teammates (Skip: Kyle Smith, Third: Thomas Muirhead , Lead: Cameron Smith , Alternate: Glen Muirhead ) represented Great Britain 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.
After the end of the 2017/18 season, Waddell moved to the newly formed team around Ross Paterson as third.
Private life
Waddell holds a bachelor's degree from the University of the West of Scotland and is studying for a master's degree at the University of Stirling . He is the grandson of Jimmy Waddell , winner of the 1979 European Championship .
Web links
- Kyle Waddell on Worldcurling.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Team GB: Kyle Waddell. In: teamgb.com. Team GB, accessed January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Sweden win at fourth consecutive Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships. In: worldcurling.com. World Curling Federation, November 25, 2017, accessed January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Andy McGilvray: Hamilton curler Kyle Waddell set to start Olympics cycle for 2022. In: Daily Record. July 21, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Olympic dreams a reality for Winning Students curlers. In: winningstudents-scotland.ac.uk. February 19, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Waddell, Kyle |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1993 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bellshill |