Bob Martin (curler)
Appearance
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Team | |
Curling club | Province of London CC, London)[1][2] |
Curling career ![]() | |
Member Association | ![]() |
World Championship appearances | 2 (1985, 1987) |
European Championship appearances | 4 (1981, 1984, 1985, 1986) |
Bob Martin (born c. 1953)[3] is a Scottish-English male curler.[4]
At the national level, he is a four-time English men's champion curler (1982, 1984, 1985, 1986).[5]
Teams
[edit]Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
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1981–82 | Bob Martin | Ronald D. Thornton | John D. Kerr | Michael Thompson | ECC 1981 (9th) |
Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | John Brown | Duncan Stewart | EngMCC 1982 ![]() | |
1983–84 | Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | Ian Coutts | Duncan Stewart | EngMCC 1984 ![]() |
1984–85 | Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | Ian Coutts | John Brown | ECC 1984 (5th) EngMCC 1985 ![]() WCC 1985 (10th) |
1985–86 | Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | Ian Coutts | John Brown | ECC 1985 (7th) |
Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | Robin Gemmell | John Brown | EngMCC 1986 ![]() | |
1986–87 | Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | Robin Gemmell | John Brown | ECC 1986 (10th) |
Bob Martin | Ronnie Brock | John Brown | Robin Gemmell | WCC 1987 (10th) |
Personal life
[edit]Martin is originally from Edinburgh. At the time of the 1985 World Championship, he was working in Abidjan, Ivory Coast as an accountant for an oil company.[3] At the time of the 1987 Worlds, he was living in Fulham,[6] and was married.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Province of London Curling Club - SportFocus". Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ London Curling Club (web archive)
- ^ a b "Wanderlust leads to epoch-making challenge". The Observer. 24 March 1985. p. 46. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ Bob Martin on the World Curling database
- ^ Men’s Championship – English Curling Association
- ^ "Scotland qualify for Calgary". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 1987. p. 25. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ "World curling facts". The Province. 29 March 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
External links
[edit]- Bob Martin at World Curling
- "Curling History: The Curling Image Project (Week 10)". 9 November 2018. (look at "CIP-64")
- "Curling - Edinburgh University Sports Union". (look at "1973-74")
Categories:
- Living people
- English male curlers
- English curling champions
- 1950s births
- Curlers from Edinburgh
- British accountants
- British expatriates in Ivory Coast
- People from Fulham
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- Anglo-Scots
- Scottish male curlers
- British curling biography stubs
- English sportspeople stubs