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David Murdoch

1978 - Today

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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. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal. He served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling since September 2018, before being named Curling Canada's high-performance director in early 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). David Murdoch is the 7,734th most popular athlete (down from 7,065th in 2024), the 8,608th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 8,341st in 2019) and the 273rd most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, David Murdoch ranks 7,734 out of 6,025. Before him are Francesca Dallapè, Karen Aslanyan, Lázaro Martínez, Isaac Kimeli, Jimmy Gressier, and Leydi Solís. After him are Hicham Bouchicha, Markéta Sluková, Chiara Rosa, Lisa Roman, Simon Gougnard, and Hassan Taftian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, David Murdoch ranks 1,476. Before him are Byron Donalds, Ruth Davidson, Matt Schnobrich, Anjana Sukhani, Neil Alexander, and Andy Dawson. After him are Natalia Cigliuti, Péter Sidi, Joy Giovanni, Chris Phillips, Heather Petri, and Ashmit Patel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Murdoch ranks 8,610 out of 8,785. Before him are Miles Chamley-Watson (1989), Jack Stephens (1994), Paul Burchill (1979), Dwight Gayle (1989), Omar Richards (1998), and Scott Dann (1987). After him are Zesh Rehman (1983), Lina Khan (1989), Nadiya Hussain (1984), Dean Whitehead (1982), Ronan Parke (1998), and Charlie Daniels (1986).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, David Murdoch ranks 273. Before him are Ed McKeever (1983), Emily Maguire (1987), Iwan Thomas (1974), Kieran West (1977), Leon Taylor (1977), and Joseph Ryan (null). After him are Katherine Grainger (1975), Greg Searle (1972), Jocelyn Rae (1991), Hannah Mills (1988), Matt Gotrel (1989), and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (1993).

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