{"id":2547,"date":"2023-04-13T00:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:41:38","slug":"scotland-win-world-curling-championship-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/scotland-win-world-curling-championship-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Win World Curling Championship Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Men&#8217;s Curling Championship: Scotland topple hosts Canada for gold medal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Report From BBC Scotland:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/winter-sports\/65203590\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/winter-sports\/65203590<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Scotland clinched the World Men&#8217;s Curling Championship gold in a dominant victory over hosts Canada.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years on from their last title, the Scots led from the second end and were in control en route to a 9-3 win at Ottawa&#8217;s TD Place Arena.<\/p>\n<p>It took Canada until the fourth end before they got on the board, but Bruce Mouat&#8217;s rink soon extended their lead to 6-1 at the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p>And with the Scots claiming three in the eighth, the hosts conceded.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='https:\/\/www.eurosport.co.uk\/curling\/scotland-seal-gold-at-world-curling-championships_vid1895491\/embed-video.shtml' width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen frameborder=0><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video Source url via embed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.co.uk\/curling\/scotland-seal-gold-at-world-curling-championships_vid1895491\/video.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.eurosport.co.uk\/curling\/scotland-seal-gold-at-world-curling-championships_vid1895491\/video.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shot the lights out,&#8221; said an emotional Mouat, whose team were 4-0 up after the first three ends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect the final to go that way, but I&#8217;m so proud of everyone who has been part of our team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that [making the steal in the third to go 4-0 up] made me more nervous. You&#8217;re in a game like that and have to defend that lead. It made things more anxious for me, but I managed to keep cool, I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mouat&#8217;s team of Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, who needed a tense extra end to edge past Italy in the last four, now add world gold to their the current European title and Olympic silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The year after the Olympics, where we were gutted with the result, but knew we had created something special when we were there,&#8221; added Mouat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew that if we brought something similar we could definitely win a World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to keep going to try to get to the Olympics and hopefully recreate something like what we did today. That&#8217;s the goal for all of us and it&#8217;s exactly why we&#8217;re still together right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland took bronze after beating Italy 11-3.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOTTISH CURLING REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;GOLD FOR SCOTLAND AT WORLD MEN\u2019S CHAMPIONSHIP 2023<\/p>\n<p>The team of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan, and Kyle Waddell clinched Scotland\u2019s first world men\u2019s gold since 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. After a mixed start to the tournament, the Scots found incredibly form and finished second in the table standings. They went on to beat Italy in the semi-finals and overcame hosts Canada in the gold medal game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishcurling.org\/scotland-at-wmcc2023\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.scottishcurling.org\/scotland-at-wmcc2023\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Theres three, and the world title for team Scotland! &#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0073;&#xe0063;&#xe0074;&#xe007f;&#x1f947; <\/p>\n<p>Watch live on the Curling Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fy3vfdBx89\">https:\/\/t.co\/fy3vfdBx89<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WMCC2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WMCC2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/curling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#curling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/47dghiPpZi\">pic.twitter.com\/47dghiPpZi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Curling (@worldcurling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldcurling\/status\/1645189940190298112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Match Report On World Curling Website: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/worldcurling.org\/2023\/04\/gold-final\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/worldcurling.org\/2023\/04\/gold-final\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>USEFUL LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Curling Federation:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/worldcurling.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/worldcurling.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scottish Curling:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishcurling.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.scottishcurling.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Men&#8217;s Curling Championship: Scotland topple hosts Canada for gold medal Report From BBC Scotland: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/winter-sports\/65203590 [Scotland clinched the World Men&#8217;s Curling Championship gold in a dominant victory over hosts Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}