Eve Muirhead

Eve Muirhead ( born April 22, 1990 in Perth ) is a Scottish curler. The reigning world champion in 2013 playing on the position of the skip.

Career

As a 16 -year-old Muirhead won her first gold medal at the Junior World Championships 2007 in Eveleth, United States on the side of Skip Sarah Reid. In 2008 she ran her own team as Skip and again won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Östersund, Sweden. In the final, she defeated the Swedish team with skip Cecilia Östlund with 12:8 stones.

In 2009 she won the World Junior Championship for himself and thus won the third gold medal in a row. Since she could beat the team of Kelly Wood in the final at the national championships, she took on Scotland also at the World Championships.

In February 2010, Muirhead took part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver (Canada) as a member of the British team. The team finished in seventh place.

Muirhead won on 28 March 2010 with the Scottish team the silver medal at the Curling World Championships. In the Canadian Swift Current, the team lost in the final against Team Germany by Andrea Schoepp Skip to 6:8 after extra end stones.

In the European Curling Championships 2010 Champéry Switzerland Muirhead won the silver medal. In the final, she defeated the Swedish team to Skip Stina Viktorsson.

On 24 March 2013, it won in Riga, Latvia, the Curling World Championship for Women in 2013 and thus became the youngest title holder of all time on the position of the skip.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 she won as a skip of the Great Britain team with a 6-5 against Switzerland the bronze medal.

Private

Eve Muirhead is the daughter of British Curlers Gordon Muirhead, who with his team finished fifth at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville. Her older brother Glen has already played for the Scottish team and her younger brother Thomas took 2012 for Great Britain at the first taking place in Innsbruck Winter Youth Olympic Games in part.

Achievements

  • 3rd place 2014 Winter Olympics
  • 1st place World Cup 2013
  • 2nd place World Cup 2010
  • Junior World Champion 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Winter Olympic Games Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics 2013 World Women's Curling Championship 2010 European Curling Championships World Junior Curling Championships 2007 World Junior Curling Championships 2008 World Junior Curling Championships 2009 World Junior Curling Championships 2011 World Junior Curling Championships Perth, Scotland Eveleth, Minnesota Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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