Charles Hay,
MBE (23 April 1930 – 4 August 2017) was a Scottish
curler and World Champion. He
skipped the Scottish team that won the 1967
World Curling Championships
The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's ...
, known then as the Scotch Cup.
The other members of the Scottish team were
John Bryden,
Alan Glen and Dave Howie. They defeated Sweden in the final. Scotland did not win another men's world title until
1991
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when
David Smith's rink (including Chuck's eldest son
David
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) beat Canada in Winnipeg.
Hay was made an
MBE in 1977 for his promotion of curling. In 2011, he received the
Elmer Freytag Award
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for services to curling and was inducted into the
World Curling Federation Hall of Fame in 2012.
Hay worked as a farmer in
Perthshire
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.
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1930 births
2017 deaths
Scottish male curlers
World curling champions
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Scottish curling champions
Scottish farmers
People from Perthshire
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