Ewan MacDonald

Ewan MacDonald ( born November 17, 1975 in Inverness ) is a Scottish curler. He plays at the position of the third.

MacDonald took internationally with the Scottish team for the first time at the Junior World Championship 1997 in Japan Karuizawa, where she, however, only reached the seventh place with ten participants. Nevertheless, he made his debut as second in Hammy McMillan's team at the Curling World Championships 1999., Where the Scottish team defeated in the final, the Canadian and became world champion. In the same year he succeeded, was beaten again as second, European Champion title for Denmark in the final. Two years later the Scottish team did not defend the title and was only fifth. Also at the Olympic curling competitions in 2002 in Salt Lake City, where MacDonald competed for Great Britain, his team only reached seventh place.

As of 2002, MacDonald took each year for Scotland participated in the Curling World Championships, where he first 2002 bronze and 2005 silver medal fetched. in 2004, the Scot was even the skipper of his team, a year later he was employed as Alternate. After MacDonald, had once again won the Second, the bronze medal at the 2005 European Championship, a medal missed the British team in fourth at the Olympic Winter Games just barely, MacDonald played here for the first time to its present position third. In the year of the Olympic Games Scotland was established in 2006 after a seven year hiatus world champion, also Vice-European Champion. At the 2007 World Championships failed in ninth title defense again clearly won for Scotland, also for the first time since 1999, again the European Championship 2008.

As Third MacDonald played at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in Team Great Britain with skip David Murdoch, Second Peter Smith, Euan Byers Lead and Alternate Graeme Connal. The team finished fifth.