Edinburgh International

The Edinburgh International is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place in late November at the Murrayfield Curling Club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The tournament is held in a round robin format.

History edit

The tournament was started in 1922 as the Worlds Curling Championship, an open competition between Scottish curlers held at the Haymarket Ice Rink. The tournament was renamed the Edinburgh International Curling Championship in 1975 in order for the International Curling Federation to reserve the name "World Curling Championship" for the Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship at the time. It became an invitational tournament, inviting the semifinalists of the same year's World Championships, and moved venues to the Murrayfield Curling Rink. A period of decreased interest in the tournament led to the event's relegation from a highly respected international tournament to a domestic circuit tournament. In 2007, the tournament became part of the World Curling Tour and the Curling Champions Tour, the European portion of the World Curling Tour, and was slotted to be held in late November.^[1] The event was dropped from the tour after 2016, and currently only consists of a senior men's and senior women's tournament.^[2]

Past champions edit

Only skip's name is displayed before 1952. Team line-up order: skip, third, second, lead.^[3]

Year	Winning team	Runner up team	Purse (GBP)
Worlds Curling Championship
1922	W K Jackson
1923	W C Johnstone
1924	Robin Welsh
1925	H McCall
1926	W K Jackson
1927	Thomas Murray
1928	E Cowper
1929	W K Jackson
1930	E Cowper
1931	L Jackson
1932	W K Jackson
1933	J Hay
1934	W K Jackson
1935	A W Keanie
1936	H Wakelin
1937	H Wakelin
1938	M Mather
Not held 1939–1946
1947	J Robertson
1948	W Scobie
1949	J Walker
1950	Willie Young
1951	J McWhirter
1952	Willie Young, Robert Young (?), John B. Pearson, J Scott^[4]
1953	Willie Young, John B. Pearson, J Scott, Robert Young
1954	James Sanderson, J Cooper, A Allison, R Moffat
1955	J Hamilton, W Archibald, G Baxter, J Leadbetter
1956	J Neilson, J Lamb, W Sommerville, W Macgregor
1957	Willie Young, John B. Pearson, J Scott, Robert Young
1958	R T Grierson, J Agnew, J McColm, S McColm
1959	William Henderson, L Tod, H Hay, N Tod
1960	Willie Young, John B. Pearson, Robert Young, J Young
1961	R B Dick, R B Dick Jnr,T L Morrison,A D Blair
1962	J Sellar,A M Sellar,J Young Jnr,A G Harvey
1963	J Neilson, J Lamb, W Sommerville, J Gilchrist
1964	J Aitken, W Sanderson, W Carsewell, A Graham
1965	Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1966	Gerry McLaughlin, Joe Klein, Ron Taylor, Don McLeod
1967	Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1968	Alex F. Torrance, Alex A. Torrance, Robert Kirkland, James Waddell
1969	William Muirhead, George Haggart, Derek Scott, Alex Young
1970	Willie Young, H Colville, W Kerr, J Young
1971	J Hutchinson, E Johnston, M Brown, J Prentice
1972	James C. Sanderson, Willie Sanderson, Iain Baxter, Colin Baxter
1973	James C. Sanderson, Willie Sanderson, Iain Baxter, Colin Baxter
1974	J Whiteford, R Whiteford, P Aitken, D Adam
Edinburgh International Curling Championships
1975	J C Bryson, J Caldwell, G Connell, J Brown
1976	William Muirhead, Derek Scott, Len Dudman, Roy Sinclair
1977	Peter Attinger, Bernhard Attinger, Mattias Neuenschwander, Ruedi Attinger
1978	Ken J. Horton, Willie Jamieson, Keith Douglas, S Cullen
1979	Willie Jamieson, R W Kelly, Keith Douglas, S Cullen
1980	Colin Hamilton, W M Dick, David Ramsay, L Pretsel
1981	Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Robert A Cowan, Robin G Copland
1982	Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Andrew McQuistin, Robert A Cowan
1983	Colin Hamilton, James C. Sanderson, W M Dick, S Cobb
1984	Graeme P Adam, Ken J. Horton, Grant McPherson, Robert Wilson
1985	Gordon Muirhead, R W Kelly, K Graham, R G Copland
1986	Peter Wilson, Norman R Brown, Hugh Aitken, Roger McIntyre
1987	Grant McPherson, R Gray, David Howie, Robert Wilson
1988	Eigil Ramsfjell, Sjur Loen, Dagfinn Loen, Morten Skaug
1989	Grant McPherson, Gordon Muirhead, R W Kelly, Robert Wilson
1990	K Prentice, J Muir, R Aitken, B Stewart
1991	Colin Hamilton, R W Kelly, V Moran, T Dodds
1992	Colin Hamilton, Ms V Gumley, T Dodds, Ms E Butler
1993	Mike Hay, Ms K Hay, Grant McPherson, Ms S Harvey
1994	D Howden, T Manuel, W Clark, L Summers
1995	Warwick Smith, David Smith, Peter Smith, David Hay
1996	Eigil Ramsfjell, Jan Thoresen, Anthon Grimsmo, Tore Torvbråten
1997	Moray Combe, A Hannah, R Dickson, S Stewart
1998	Warwick Smith, Hammy C McMillan, Ewan MacDonald, Ross Hepburn
1999	Ulrik Schmidt, Lasse Lavrsen, B Hansen, C Svengaard
2000	David Murdoch, N Murdoch, G McKay, S Reid
2001	Colin Hamilton, Brian Binnie, David Ramsay, G Craik
2002	Warwick Smith, Ewan MacDonald, A Smith, Peter Loudon
2003	David Murdoch, Craig Wilson, Neil Murdoch, Euan Byers
2004	Colin Hamilton, G Patrick, S Murphy, J Boyd
2005	David Edwards, P Westwood, Ross Paterson, S Gilmour
2006	Peter Loudon, Graeme Connal, David Hay, M Fraser
2007	A Smith, N McArthur, D Reid, M Fraser
2008	Andy Kapp, Andreas Lang, Holger Höhne, Andreas Kempf	Göran Carlsson	12,500
2009	David Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald, Peter Smith (curler), Euan Byers	Peter Loudon	10,000
2010	Graham Shaw, Brian Binnie, Richard Goldie, Robin Niven	Hammy McMillan	10,000
2011	Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow	Sandy Reid	10,000
2012	Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow	John Jahr	10,000
2013^[5]	David Edwards, John Penny, Scott Macleod, Colin Campbell	Ross McCleary	10,000
2014^[6]	Aku Kauste, Pauli Jäämies, Leo Mäkelä, Janne Pitko	David Šik	10,000
2015	Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cammy Smith	Jaap van Dorp	10,000
2016	Karel Kubeska, Jiri Candra, Martin Jurík, Lukáš Klíma	Bruce Mouat	10,300