World Curling Hall of Fame

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

The inductees are listed as follows:[2]

Year[a]InducteeCountryCategory[b]Notes
1978Ken Watson Canada
1979Chuck Hay Scotland
1980Bob Grierson Scotland
1981Doug Maxwell Canada
1982Sven Eklund Sweden
1983Mabel DeWare Canada
1984Robin Welsh Scotland
1985Don McLeod Canada
1986Art Cobb United States
1987Bob Picken Canada
1988Kay Sugahara United States
1989Don McKay United States
1990Colin Campbell Canadaawarded posthumously
1994Keith Wendorf Germany
1996Elizabeth Paterson-Brown Scotland
1997Erwin Sautter Switzerland
2000Bob Hardy United StatesBuilder
Ernie Richardson CanadaCurler
2001Shirley Morash CanadaBuilder
Raymond Somerville United StatesCurler
2002Franz Tanner SwitzerlandBuilder
2003Bob Whitehead United StatesBuilderawarded posthumously
2006Kunio Nando JapanBuilder
2007Roy Sinclair ScotlandBuilder
2008Leslie Ingram-Brown ScotlandBuilder
2009Sandra Schmirler CanadaCurlerawarded posthumously
2010Malcolm Richardson ScotlandBuilder
2011Ray Kingsmith CanadaBuilderawarded posthumously
2012[1]Jean-Paul Bidaud SwitzerlandBuilder
Elisabet Gustafson SwedenCurler
Günther Hummelt AustriaBuilderawarded posthumously
2013[3]Don Duguid CanadaCurler
Ron Northcott CanadaCurler
2014[4][5]Randy Ferbey CanadaCurler
Patrick Hürlimann SwitzerlandCurler
Eigil Ramsfjell NorwayCurler
2015[6]Russ Howard CanadaCurler
Hiroyuki Saito JapanBuilder
Ray Turnbull CanadaBuilder
2016[7]Warren Hansen CanadaBuilder
Elisabeth Högström SwedenCurler
Franco Zumofen ItalyBuilder
2017Arnold Richardson
Ernie Richardson
Garnet Richardson
Wes Richardson		 CanadaCurlers
2018Kevin Martin CanadaCurler
Young C. Kim South KoreaBuilder
Elmer Freytag United StatesBuilderawarded posthumously
Shorty Jenkins CanadaBuilderawarded posthumously
2019Dordi Nordby NorwayCurler
Michael Burns Sr. CanadaBuilderawarded posthumously
Ian Michael Thomson ScotlandBuilder
2020[8]Elisabet Gustafson
Katarina Nyberg
Louise Marmont
Elisabeth Persson		 SwedenCurlersGustafson also individually
inducted in 2012
Gordon Craig CanadaBuilder
Leif Öhman SwedenBuilder
2021[9]Anette Norberg
Eva Lund
Cathrine Lindahl
Anna Le Moine		 SwedenCurlers
Bernie Sparkes CanadaCurlers
Johannes Jensen DenmarkBuilder
2022[10] Jan Betker
Joan McCusker
Marcia Gudereit		 CanadaCurlers
Ian Tetley CanadaCurler
Peter Becker New ZealandBuilder
2023[11] Ewan MacDonald ScotlandCurler
Peter Smith ScotlandCurler
Bill Strum United StatesCurler
Kate Caithness ScotlandBuilder
Jack Lynch CanadaBuilderawarded posthumously
2024[12][13] Thomas Ulsrud NorwayCurlerawarded posthumously
Sonja Gaudet CanadaCurler
Les Harrison CanadaBuilder
Jalle Jungnell SwedenCurler/Builder
Pål Trulsen NorwayCurler/Builder
Olli Rissanen FinlandBuilder
2025[14] Peja Lindholm
Tomas Nordin
Magnus Swartling
Peter Narup		 SwedenCurlers
Wayne Middaugh CanadaCurler

Notes

  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

  1. 1 2 "World Curling Federation Annual General Assembly April 2012". World Curling Federation. 6 April 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation.
  3. ↑ "Duguid and Northcott inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. 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. ↑ "Ferbey, Huerlimann and Ramsfjell inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 1 April 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Russ Howard, Ray Turnbull and Hiroyuki Saito inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Warren Hansen inducted into WCF Hall of Fame". World Curling Federation. 8 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 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. Archived from the original on 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. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  13. ↑ "Finland's Olli Rissanen inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling. 2024-11-18. Archived from the original on 2024-11-16.
  14. ↑ "Three new inductees join the World Curling Hall of Fame". World Curling. 2025-09-04. Archived from the original on 2025-09-05. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
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