Eve Muirhead

Eve Muirhead is an Olympic, World, and European Champion curler, celebrated for her pivotal role in Great Britain’s curling success. After clinching her first World Junior Curling Championship title in 2007 as a third, Eve Muirhead went on to secure three additional World Junior Curling Championship golds as a skip in 2008, 2009, and 2011. This unprecedented achievement earned her the BBC Scotland Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2009. Transitioning to senior international competition, Muirhead quickly established her dominance, securing a silver medal at the 2010 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship and a gold at the 2011 European Championships.

Her success continued with a World Championship title in Riga in 2013, followed by a series of Grand Slam victories including the Players’ Championship and the Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic in 2013, and the Colonial Square Ladies Classic and Canadian Open of Curling in 2014. Muirhead’s Olympic career began with her debut at Vancouver 2010, and she continued to lead the British women’s curling team to significant milestones. She earned a bronze medal at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, becoming the youngest skip to achieve an Olympic medal, and later led her team to a fourth-place finish at PyeongChang 2018. During this period, she added to her extensive Grand Slam record with wins at the Players’ Championship in both 2015 and 2016.

She will extend this prestigious role to the senior team for the 2026 Winter Olympics, continuing to inspire the next generation of athletes. Muirhead has also been honored with multiple Perth & Kinross Sports Personality of the Year titles.