Eve Muirhead

Eve Muirhead OBE (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Eve Muirhead
OBE
Eve Muirhead at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
Born (1990-04-22) 22 April 1990
Perth, Scotland
Team
Curling clubDunkeld CC,
Pitlochry, SCO
Curling career
Member Association Scotland
 Great Britain
World Championship
appearances
9 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances
1 (2022)
European Championship
appearances
13 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Olympic
appearances
4 (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
Grand Slam victories6 (2013 Players', 2013 Autumn Gold, 2014 Colonial Square, 2014 Canadian Open, 2015 Players', 2016 Players')
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 1
World Championships 1 1 1
World Mixed Doubles Championships 1 0 0
European Championships 3 5 2
European Mixed Team Championships 1 0 0
World Junior.Championships 4 0 0
Total 11 6 4
Women's Curling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2022 BeijingTeam
2014 SochiTeam
Representing  Scotland
World Championships
2013 Riga
2010 Swift Current
2017 Beijing
European Curling Championships
2011 Moscow
2017 St Gallen
2021 Lillehammer
2010 Champéry
2012 Karlstad
2013 Stavanger
2015 Esbjerg
2019 Helsingborg
2014 Champéry
2016 Braehead
Scottish Women's Curling Championship
2009 Perth
2010 Perth
2012 Perth
2013 Perth
2015 Perth
2016 Perth
2017 Perth
2020 Perth
2019 Perth
World Junior Curling Championships
2007 Eveleth
2008 Ostersund
2009 Vancouver
2011 Perth
World Mixed Doubles Championship
2022 Geneva
Scottish Mixed Doubles Championships
2022 Perth
2020 Perth
European Mixed Championship
2012 Erzurum

As skip of the Scotland team, Muirhead won the 2011 European Championships in Moscow, the 2013 World Championships in Riga, the 2017 European Championships in St. Gallen and the 2021 European Championships in Lillehammer. She is also a four-time World Junior Champion (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011). A four-time Olympian, she represented Great Britain at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018 and Beijing 2022 in which she was chosen as one of Great Britain's flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony. In Sochi, she became the youngest-ever skip, male or female, to win an Olympic medal. She curls out of the Dunkeld Curling Club based in Pitlochry.

She announced her retirement on 11 August 2022.

She currently coaches the Fay Henderson rink.

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