Grant Hardie

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Grant Hardie
Curler
Born (1992-03-27) March 27, 1992 (age 29)
Dumfries, Scotland
Team
Curling club,
Edinburgh, SCO
SkipBruce Mouat
ThirdGrant Hardie
SecondBobby Lammie
LeadHammy McMillan Jr.
AlternateRoss Whyte
Career
Member Association Scotland
World Championship
appearances		3 (2018, 2019, 2021)
European Championship
appearances		2 (2018, 2021)
Grand Slam victories4 (2017 National, 2021 Champions Cup, 2021 Players', 2021 Masters)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  Scotland
World Men's Curling Championship
Silver medal – second place 2021 Calgary
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Las Vegas
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tallinn
Gold medal – first place 2021 Lillehammer
World Mixed Curling Championship
Gold medal – first place 2017 Champéry
Winter Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Granada

Grant Hardie (born March 27, 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow.[1] He currently plays third for the Bruce Mouat rink. He is the nephew of 1999 world champion Hammy McMillan.[2]

Career[]

University[]

While attending the University of Strathclyde (where he took civil engineering),[3] Hardie played third for the British team at the 2015 Winter Universiade, which was skipped by Kyle Smith. The team would go on to win the bronze medal.

Mixed[]

Hardie skipped the Scottish team at the 2017 World Mixed Curling Championship. He led his team of Rhiann Macleod, and Barbara McFarlane to a 6-1 record after the group stage. The team then went on to win four straight playoff games en route to winning the gold medal, defeating Canada in the final.

Men's[]

Before joining the Mouat rink, Hardie found success in his own right as a skip. He and teammates , Dave Reid and Duncan Menzies won the 2017 Aberdeen International Curling Championship, Hardie's first World Curling Tour win. This win qualified the rink for the season ending Champions Cup, his first Grand Slam event. There, the team went winless, going 0-4. After the season, Hardie joined forces with the 2016 World Junior champion skip, Bruce Mouat.

The new Mouat rink found immediate success on the World Curling Tour, winning the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard and Oakville OCT Fall Classic tour events to begin the season. In their very first slam as a team, the 2017 Boost National, the team would win the whole thing, becoming the first Scottish team to win a Grand Slam title. Also on the tour that season, the team would win the Dumfries Challenger Series and the Aberdeen International Curling Championship. The team had less success at the second slam they played in the, 2018 Meridian Canadian Open, failing to make it to the playoffs. Later in the season, the team won the Scottish Men's Curling Championship, and defeated the British Olympic team (skipped by Kyle Smith) in a playoff to earn the right to represent Scotland at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship.

References[]

  1. ^ British Curling profile
  2. ^ "Grant keeps up the family tradition by becoming a world curling champion". The Galloway Gazette. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  3. ^ "Grant Hardie - Biography - British Universities & Colleges Sport". bucs.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

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