Peter Wilson (born 9 December 1961 in

Stranraer Stranraer ( , in Scotland also ; ), also known as The Toon or The Cleyhole, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on Loch Ryan and the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer is Dumfries ...

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) is an Irish curler. In 1981, Wilson skipped his native Scotland to a gold medal at the 1981 World Junior Curling Championships over Denis Marchand of Canada. Three years later he skipped Scotland to a silver medal at the

European Curling Championships The European Curling Championships are annual curling tournaments held in Europe between various European nations. The European Curling Championships are usually held in early to mid December. The tournament also acts as a qualifier for the Worl ...

, losing to Peter Attinger, Jr. of Switzerland. Wilson would not return to a major international tournament until 1997. In 1997 he returned to the European Championship as

Douglas Dryburgh Douglas Dryburgh (born 30 January 1966 in Inverness or Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a Scottish-Irish curler, originally from Kirkcaldy. He is a former World Junior champion skip and represented Great Britain at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Career ...

, third for Scotland. The team won the bronze medal. The next year he travelled with Dryburgh to the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...

and the team finished in seventh. Wilson and Dryburgh would later move to Ireland. In 2004 Wilson skipped the Irish team at the European Championships finishing twelfth. The following year Dryburgh joined the team and skipped them and they finished in seventh qualifying them for the

2006 World Men's Curling Championship The 2006 World Men's Curling Championship was held April 1–9, 2006 at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Scotland, skipped by David Murdoch, won the tournament defeating Canada in the final. Teams ** ...

at the Worlds Ireland finished in last place.

Awards

*WJCC Sportsmanship Award – 1981

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* 1961 births Living people Irish male curlers Scottish male curlers British male curlers Olympic curlers for Great Britain Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Stranraer Scottish Olympic competitors 20th-century Scottish sportsmen 21st-century Irish sportsmen 20th-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-curling-bio-stub