Graeme Connal (born 12 September 1969)
at Vancouver 2010 Olympics is a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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curler and world champion. He won a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...
at the 1991
World Curling Championships
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in
Winnipeg
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.
["Curling – Men: World Championships"]
Retrieved 21 March 2008 He received a gold medal at the
2007 European Curling Championships in
Füssen
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. He was skip for the Scottish team that received a silver medal at the
1990 World Junior Curling Championships in
Portage la Prairie
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Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Highway (exactly ...
.
Connal was educated at
Craigclowan Preparatory School
Craigclowan School & Nursery is a private day preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13 in Perth, Scotland.
History
Craigclowan School and Nursery is located south of Perth.
Craigclowan was established in 1952 by Richard W Noad. Noad ...
in
Perth, Scotland
Perth (; ) is a centrally located Cities of Scotland, Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and is the historic county town of Perthshire. It had a population of about ...
.
Teammates
2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
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David Murdoch
David Matthew Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions ...
, ''Skip''
*
Ewan MacDonald, ''Third''
*
Peter Smith, ''Second''
*
Euan Byers, ''Lead''
References
External links
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* Video:
1969 births
Living people
Scottish male curlers
British male curlers
World curling champions
European curling champions
Olympic curlers for Great Britain
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
People educated at Craigclowan Preparatory School
Sportspeople from Glasgow
Scottish Olympic competitors
20th-century Scottish sportsmen
21st-century Scottish sportsmen
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