Hugh Millikin
Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin (born 4 July 1957 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Australian curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario.
Career
[edit]In 1986, while still residing in the Canadian province of Ontario, Millikin played second position for Dave Van Dine's Canadian Mixed Curling Championship team.
Millikin would later move to Australia and has skipped the Australian team to nine Pacific Curling Championships titles. Millikin has also participated in 11 World Curling Championships. The team's top placements have been sixth place in 1992, 1993 and 2008. Millikin also went to the 1992 Winter Olympics, skipping the Australian team to a seventh-place finish in the demonstration event.
Millikin and his team used travel back to his hometown Ottawa to practice and to participate in local curling tournaments. Their team coach was Earle Morris, father of John Morris.
At the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship, he skipped Australia to a 5–6 record, the most wins ever for Australia. The team came an end short from forcing a tie-breaker.
The Australian team missed qualification for the 2010 Winter Olympics by 0.5 points, finishing ranked 11th in the world, with only the top ten qualifying for the games.[1]
Awards
[edit]- Colin Campbell Award - 1993
- Australian Sports Medal - 2000
References
[edit]- ^ Baum, Greg (26 February 2010). "Australian curlers ponder what might have been". The Age. Melbourne.
External links
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Australian male curlers
- Curlers from British Columbia
- Canadian male curlers
- Canadian mixed curling champions
- Sportspeople from North Vancouver
- Curlers from Ottawa
- Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Pacific-Asian curling champions
- Canadian emigrants to Australia
- Olympic curlers for Australia
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen
- Australian curling biography stubs
- Canadian curling biography stubs