Eve Muirhead is a four-time World Junior Champion.
32 Facts About Eve Muirhead
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At the 2008 Scottish junior women's championship Eve Muirhead skipped her own team, winning all games and thus qualifying for the next junior world championship.
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Eve Muirhead returned to the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships in Vancouver to play at the Vancouver Olympic Centre, the future site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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In December 2009, Muirhead was awarded the BBC Scotland Young Sports Personality of the year for her achievements in curling.
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In 2010, Eve Muirhead was too preoccupied with the Olympics to play at the World Juniors, but she was back at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships in her native Scotland.
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Eve Muirhead won the gold medal at the World Juniors for an unprecedented fourth time in her career.
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Eve Muirhead was selected as skip for the Great Britain Women's curling team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
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Eve Muirhead broke her broom on the ice, a major curling faux pas.
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Eve Muirhead continued as skip for the Great Britain Women's curling team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Eve Muirhead was skip for the British team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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Eve Muirhead lost to the Swedes in the semifinal, putting Team GB in the bronze medal game against Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa team.
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Eve Muirhead lost this game as well, settling for fourth place.
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Eve Muirhead was selected as skip for the Women's curling team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
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Eve Muirhead's teammates were third Kelly Wood, second Lorna Vevers, lead Anne Laird and alternate Sarah Reid.
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Eve Muirhead's rink did not win the Scottish championship in 2011, but she was invited to play as Scotland's alternate at the 2011 Capital One World Women's Curling Championship, where the team finished 9th.
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Eve Muirhead won the Scottish championship for a fourth time in 2013.
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Eve Muirhead next made it to the Worlds in 2015 and finished in 4th place.
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At the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship, the team missed the playoffs and finished in 5th place, while at the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship, Eve Muirhead would take home the bronze medal.
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Eve Muirhead grew up in Blair Atholl, Scotland, and plays golf off scratch handicap at Pitlochry Golf Course.
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Eve Muirhead is an accomplished bagpiper, piping at four World Championships.
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On 5 April 2010, Eve Muirhead modelled at the eighth annual fashion show Dressed to Kilt.
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On 14 June 2010, it was reported that Eve Muirhead had turned down the chance to become a professional golfer after receiving two scholarships from American universities.
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Eve Muirhead opened The National Curling Academy in Stirling in 2017.
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Eve Muirhead was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to curling and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours, for services to curling.
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Eve Muirhead competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics, where curling was a demonstration sport, and was alternate for Scotland's 1999 gold medal winning World Championship team.
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Eve Muirhead won world silver medals in 1992,1993 and 1995.
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Eve Muirhead has two brothers, Glen and Thomas Muirhead, who are both accomplished curlers.
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Eve Muirhead faced the Swedish Margaretha Sigfridsson in the final, in a re-match of the 2013 World Championships.
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Eve Muirhead won a second straight Grand Slam at the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, becoming the first non-Canadian skip to win two Grand Slam titles in their career.
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Eve Muirhead won a third slam at the 2014 Colonial Square Ladies Classic and followed it up with a fourth slam at the inaugural Women's 2014 Canadian Open of Curling.
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Eve Muirhead won her fifth Grand Slam and third in a row by winning the 2015 Players' Championship.
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Eve Muirhead won a sixth Grand Slam title by winning the 2016 Players' Championship.