Marc Kennedy
Marc Kennedy 
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| birthday | 5th February 1982 (age 38) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | St. Albert, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing position | Third | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | inactive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marc Kennedy (born February 5, 1982 in St. Albert , Alberta ) is a Canadian curler . Most recently he played third on Kevin Koe's team .
Kennedy began his international career at the 2003 Winter Universiade , where he participated as a substitute for Mike McEwen's Canadian team and won the gold medal. From 2003 to 2006 he played second in John Morris' team . He then moved to Kevin Martin's new team together with Morris . With this team he won the Canadian championship The Brier in 2008 and subsequently as a representative of Canada at the 2008 World Cup in Grand Forks by a final victory against the Scots around David Murdoch the gold medal. In 2009 Kennedy was Canadian champion with Team Martin. At the 2009 World Cup , there was a new edition of the final meeting of the previous year; this time the Scots could prevail with David Murdoch with 7: 6.
Kennedy won the Canadian Olympic Curling Trails on December 13, 2009 with the team of Skip Kevin Martin, Third John Morris, Lead Ben Hebert , Alternate Adam Enright and represented Canada at the XXI with this team . Winter Olympics in curling. With eleven wins in eleven games they finally won the gold medal superiorly; in the final they defeated Norway with Skip Thomas Ulsrud .
In 2014, Kennedy joined Kevin Koe's team with Ben Hebert to play third . After winning the Canadian Championship in 2016 by beating Brad Gushue's team in the final , he took part in the 2016 World Championship for Canada in Basel . 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's team.
In November 2017 he and Team Koe won the Canadian elimination competition ( Roar of the Rings ) by beating Mike McEwen's team in the final and, together with his teammates Kevin Koe ( Skip ), Brent Laing ( Second ) and Ben Hebert ( Lead ) 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 March 2018, Kennedy announced his preliminary resignation from curling at the end of the 2017/18 season. For the 2018/19 season, BJ Neufeld takes his place as third in Team Koe.
Web links
- Team Koe (English)
- Marc Kennedy on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Marc Kennedy in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Team Koe to chase Gold wearing the Maple Leaf. In: curling.ca. December 10, 2017, accessed December 13, 2017 .
- ^ Kennedy to take step back from curling. In: tsn.ca. March 3, 2018, accessed March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Koe recruits Neufeld, Flasch to team. In: tsn.ca. March 20, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Kennedy, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Albert, Alberta |