Rob Gordon (curler)
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| Born | Robbie Gordon November 28, 1995 | ||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | Granite CC, Winnipeg, MB[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Skip | Braden Calvert | ||||||||||||||
| Third | Kyle Kurz | ||||||||||||||
| Second | Ian McMillan | ||||||||||||||
| Lead | Rob Gordon | ||||||||||||||
| Alternate | Justin Richter | ||||||||||||||
Curling career  | |||||||||||||||
| Member Association |  Manitoba | ||||||||||||||
| Other appearances | CJCC: 1 (2016) WJCC: 1 (2016) | ||||||||||||||
| Top CTRS ranking | 10th (2017–18) | ||||||||||||||
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Robbie "Rob" Gordon (born November 28, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently plays lead on Team Braden Calvert.
Career
Gordon joined the 2013 Canadian Junior Curling Championships winning rink of Matt Dunstone for the 2013–14 season. The team lost in the finals of the Manitoba Canola Juniors to Braden Calvert in both 2014 and 2015. The team would win the Manitoba juniors the following year in 2016. This earned the Dunstone rink a spot in the 2016 Canadian Juniors where Gordon would win his first championship after defeating Northern Ontario 11–4 in the final, and represented Canada at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, winning a bronze medal.[2] At the 2016 Manitoba championship, he played with Dunstone, losing in the final to Mike McEwen. Had they won the event, they would've declined their berth into the Brier as it conflicted with the 2016 World Juniors.
Gordon would stay with teammates Colton Lott and Kyle Doering but would bring on Jason Gunnlaugson to skip the team. The team won the Performance Spider Midweek Special and finished fourth at the 2017 Viterra Championship, Manitoba's provincial championship. Gunnlaugson would stay for just one season with the team before forming a new team. Lott, Doering and Gordon added veteran skip Pat Simmons to their team. The team competed at the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials where they missed the playoffs with a 2–4 record.[3] The team played in three Grand Slam events that season, making it to the quarterfinals of the 2017 Tour Challenge. At the 2018 Manitoba provincials, the team failed to make the playoffs. Gordon left longtime teammates Lott and Doering after the season and joined the Calvert rink with Kyle Kurz at third and Ian McMillan at second.
The new Calvert rink played in three Grand Slam's but failed to qualify in any of them. They lost in the championship round of the 2019 Viterra Championship and were eliminated. Team Calvert started the 2019–20 season with semifinal finishes at both the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker and the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic. They also won the Atkins Curling Supplies Classic. At the 2020 Viterra Championship, they lost the B Qualifier to 2020 World Junior champion Jacques Gauthier.
Personal life
Gordon currently lives in Winnipeg and currently works as a event/development assistant for Curl Manitoba.[4] He is in a relationship with fellow curler Kristin MacCuish.
Teams
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate |
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| 2013–14[5] | Matt Dunstone (Fourth) | Colton Lott (Skip) | Kyle Doering | Rob Gordon | |
| 2014–15 | Matt Dunstone (Fourth) | Colton Lott (Skip) | Kyle Doering | Rob Gordon | |
| 2015–16 | Matt Dunstone | Colton Lott | Kyle Doering | Rob Gordon | Wade Ford (WJCC) |
| 2016–17 | Jason Gunnlaugson | Colton Lott | Kyle Doering | Rob Gordon | |
| 2017–18 | Pat Simmons | Colton Lott | Kyle Doering | Rob Gordon | |
| 2018–19 | Braden Calvert | Kyle Kurz | Ian McMillan | Rob Gordon | |
| 2019–20 | Braden Calvert | Kyle Kurz | Ian McMillan | Rob Gordon | Justin Richter |
References
- ^ "Rob Gordon Profile". Curl Manitoba. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ "VoIP Defender World Junior Curling Championships 2016". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ "2017 Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials - Men". Curling Canada. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ "Curl Manitoba Staff". Curl Manitoba. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
- ^ "Rob Gordon Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
