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Bob Martin (curler)

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Bob Martin
 
Team
Curling clubProvince of London CC, London)[1][2]
Curling career
Member Association England
World Championship
appearances
2 (1985, 1987)
European Championship
appearances
4 (1981, 1984, 1985, 1986)

Bob Martin (born c. 1953)[3] is a Scottish-English male curler.[4]

At the national level, he is a four-time English men's champion curler (1982, 1984, 1985, 1986).[5]

Teams

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Season Skip Third Second Lead Events
1981–82 Bob Martin Ronald D. Thornton John D. Kerr Michael Thompson ECC 1981 (9th)
Bob Martin Ronnie Brock John Brown Duncan Stewart EngMCC 1982 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1983–84 Bob Martin Ronnie Brock Ian Coutts Duncan Stewart EngMCC 1984 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1984–85 Bob Martin Ronnie Brock Ian Coutts John Brown ECC 1984 (5th)
EngMCC 1985 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WCC 1985 (10th)
1985–86 Bob Martin Ronnie Brock Ian Coutts John Brown ECC 1985 (7th)
Bob Martin Ronnie Brock Robin Gemmell John Brown EngMCC 1986 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1986–87 Bob Martin Ronnie Brock Robin Gemmell John Brown ECC 1986 (10th)
Bob Martin Ronnie Brock John Brown Robin Gemmell WCC 1987 (10th)

Personal life

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Martin is originally from Edinburgh. At the time of the 1985 World Championship, he was working in Abidjan, Ivory Coast as an accountant for an oil company.[3] At the time of the 1987 Worlds, he was living in Fulham,[6] and was married.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Province of London Curling Club - SportFocus". Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. ^ London Curling Club (web archive)
  3. ^ a b "Wanderlust leads to epoch-making challenge". The Observer. 24 March 1985. p. 46. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  4. ^ Bob Martin on the World Curling database Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Men’s Championship – English Curling Association
  6. ^ "Scotland qualify for Calgary". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 1987. p. 25. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  7. ^ "World curling facts". The Province. 29 March 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
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