Gordon Muirhead is a

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curler and world champion. He was ''alternate'' for the gold medal-winning Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in

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, and also won silver medals in 1992, 1993 and 1995. He received a gold medal at the 1994

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, a silver medal in 1998 and a bronze medal in 1992. Gordon's daughter,

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, won the women's 2022 Olympic gold for Great Britain in Beijing, the 2013 World Championship, four

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(2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011), and was

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for Great Britain at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, where she won a bronze medal. His son

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won a World Junior Men's Championship in 2013 at Sochi, curling for Kyle Smith's Scottish rink. His eldest son,

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, is also a curler, who has competed at the Olympic level.

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