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Greg Drummond

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Greg Drummond
Born (1989-02-03) 3 February 1989 (age 35)
Forfar, Angus. Scotland
Curling career
World Championship
appearances
4 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017)
European Championship
appearances
2 (2012, 2013)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi
Representing  Scotland
World Curling Championships
Silver medal – second place 2011 Regina
Silver medal – second place 2012 Basel
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Victoria
European Curling Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Stavanger

Greg Drummond (born 3 February 1989 in Forfar) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently coaches the Ross Whyte rink.[1]

Career

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Drummond first appeared on the world stage as the alternate for the Scottish team at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships. The team, skipped by Logan Gray, finished sixth. Drummond made an appearance at the European Junior Curling Challenge in 2009, and represented Great Britain in the Winter University Games in Erzurum with skip Glen Muirhead, finishing fourth after a loss in the bronze medal game.

Drummond joined Tom Brewster in the 2010–11 curling season as his third, and won the Scottish Men's Curling Championship with Brewster in 2011. They represented Scotland at the 2011 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, and finished in second place with a loss in the final to Jeff Stoughton.[2] They won the Scottish championship again in 2012, and repeated a second-place finish in the 2012 World Men's Curling Championship with a loss in the final to Glenn Howard.[3]

On the World Curling Tour, Drummond won two Edinburgh International titles with Brewster in 2011 and 2012 and won the German Masters title with Murdoch in 2013.

February 2014 sees Greg make his Team GB Winter Olympic debut at the Sochi 2014 games alongside David Murdoch, Michael Goodfellow, Scott Andrews and Tom Brewster. The team took bronze at the 2013 European Championships.[4] They progressed into the Olympic finals against Canada and took the silver medal.[5]

Personal life

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He is married to fellow curler Vicky Wright.[6] His brother is fellow curler Kerr Drummond.[7]

Key
C Champion
F Lost in Final
SF Lost in Semifinal
QF Lost in Quarterfinals
R16 Lost in the round of 16
Q Did not advance to playoffs
T2 Played in Tier 2 event
DNP Did not participate in event
N/A Not a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Masters DNP DNP DNP Q Q QF DNP
Tour Challenge N/A N/A N/A N/A Q Q DNP
The National DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP Q Q
Canadian Open Q DNP DNP Q QF DNP DNP
Players' Championships DNP DNP Q DNP SF DNP
Champions Cup N/A N/A N/A N/A Q DNP

References

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  1. ^ "Men's Team Line-Ups". p. 13. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Scotland lose out to Canada in curling final". BBC Sport. BBC. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Curling: Canada beat Scotland in men's world final". BBC Sport. BBC. 8 April 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  4. ^ "David Murdoch and Scots curlers secure Bronze at European Championships". Hamilton Management. 1 December 2013. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Greg Drummond". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Forth Valley nurse Vicky Drummond receives MBE to go with curling gold medal". The Falkirk Herald. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  7. ^ "2024 Montana's Brier Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
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