World Curling Hall of Fame

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The World Curling Hall of Fame is an international curling Hall of Fame that was established by World Curling (former the World Curling Federation) in 2012.[1] The induction is given as an honor that recognizes outstanding contributions to the sport of curling, and is awarded annually. Inductees are also awarded the World Curling Freytag Award, an award which predated the Hall of Fame as the highest honor given by World Curling. Previous Freytag Award winners have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.[2]

Inductees in the World Curling Hall of Fame are curlers or builders of the sport of curling; curlers are inducted based on their performance results, ability, sportsmanship, and character, while builders are inducted based on their distinguished service and major contributions to the development of the sport of curling.[2]

Inductees

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The inductees are listed as follows:[2]

Year[a] Inductee Country Category[b] Notes
1978 Ken Watson   Canada
1979 Chuck Hay   Scotland
1980 Bob Grierson   Scotland
1981 Doug Maxwell   Canada
1982 Sven Eklund   Sweden
1983 Mabel DeWare   Canada
1984 Robin Welsh   Scotland
1985 Don McLeod   Canada
1986 Art Cobb   United States
1987 Bob Picken   Canada
1988 Kay Sugahara   United States
1989 Don McKay   United States
1990 Colin Campbell   Canada awarded posthumously
1994 Keith Wendorf   Germany
1996 Elizabeth Paterson-Brown   Scotland
1997 Erwin Sautter   Switzerland
2000 Bob Hardy   United States Builder
2000 Ernie Richardson   Canada Curler
2001 Shirley Morash   Canada Builder
2001 Raymond Somerville   United States Curler
2002 Franz Tanner   Switzerland Builder
2003 Bob Whitehead   United States Builder awarded posthumously
2006 Kunio Nando   Japan Builder
2007 Roy Sinclair   Scotland Builder
2008 Leslie Ingram-Brown   Scotland Builder
2009 Sandra Schmirler   Canada Curler awarded posthumously
2010 Malcolm Richardson   Scotland Builder
2011 Ray Kingsmith   Canada Builder awarded posthumously
2012 Jean-Paul Bidaud[1]   Switzerland Builder
2012 Elisabet Gustafson[1]   Sweden Curler
2012 Günther Hummelt[1]   Austria Builder awarded posthumously
2013 Don Duguid[3]   Canada Curler
2013 Ron Northcott[3]   Canada Curler
2014 Randy Ferbey[4]   Canada Curler
2014 Patrick Hürlimann[5]   Switzerland Curler
2014 Eigil Ramsfjell[5]   Norway Curler
2015 Russ Howard[6]   Canada Curler
2015 Hiroyuki Saito[6]   Japan Builder
2015 Ray Turnbull[6]   Canada Builder
2016 Warren Hansen[7]   Canada Builder
2016 Elisabeth Högström[7]   Sweden Curler
2016 Franco Zumofen[7]   Italy Builder
2017 Arnold Richardson,
Ernie Richardson,
Garnet Richardson,
Wes Richardson
  Canada Curlers
2018 Kevin Martin   Canada Curler
2018 Young C. Kim   South Korea Builder
2018 Elmer Freytag   United States Builder awarded posthumously
2018 Shorty Jenkins   Canada Builder awarded posthumously
2019 Dordi Nordby   Norway Curler
2019 Michael Burns Sr.   Canada Builder awarded posthumously
2019 Ian Michael Thomson   Scotland Builder
2020[8] Elisabet Gustafson,
Katarina Nyberg,
Louise Marmont,
Elisabeth Persson
  Sweden Curlers Gustafson also individually
inducted in 2012
2020 Gordon Craig   Canada Builder
2020 Leif Öhman   Sweden Builder
2021[9] Anette Norberg,
Eva Lund,
Cathrine Lindahl,
Anna Le Moine
  Sweden Curlers
2021 Bernie Sparkes   Canada Curlers
2021 Johannes Jensen   Denmark Builder
2022[10] Jan Betker,
Joan McCusker,
Marcia Gudereit
  Canada Curlers
Ian Tetley   Canada Curler
Peter Becker   New Zealand Builder
2023[11] Ewan MacDonald   Scotland Curler
Peter Smith   Scotland Curler
Bill Strum   United States Curler
Kate Caithness   Scotland Builder
Jack Lynch   Canada Builder awarded posthumously
2024[12] Thomas Ulsrud   Norway Curler awarded posthumously
Sonja Gaudet   Canada Curler
Les Harrison   Canada Builder
Jalle Jungnell   Sweden Curler/Builder
Pål Trulsen   Norway Curler/Builder

Notes

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  1. ^ "Year" denotes year that Freytag Award was awarded to the inductee for dates before 2012, and denotes year of induction from 2012 on.
  2. ^ The builder/curler categorization of awardees was not introduced until 2000.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "World Curling Federation Annual General Assembly April 2012". World Curling Federation. 6 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation.
  3. ^ a b "Duguid and Northcott inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  4. ^ "Ferbey to be inducted into Word Curling Hall of Fame". Canadian Curling Association. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Ferbey, Huerlimann and Ramsfjell inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. ^ a b c "Russ Howard, Ray Turnbull and Hiroyuki Saito inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  7. ^ a b c "Warren Hansen inducted into WCF Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Canadian and Swedes to be inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  9. ^ "World Curling inducts 2021 Hall of Fame recipients". World Curling Federation. 2021-06-01. Archived from the original on 2022-03-27. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  10. ^ "World Curling inducts 2022 Hall of Fame recipients". World Curling Federation. 2022-06-23. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23.
  11. ^ "World Curling inducts 2023 Hall of Fame recipients". World Curling Federation. 2023-03-03. Archived from the original on 2023-03-07.
  12. ^ "World Curling inducts 2024 Hall of Fame recipients". World Curling. 2024-03-31. Archived from the original on 2024-04-02.
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