Four-time world championship gold medalist Glenn Howard of Midland, Ontario, has retired from the sport of curling at the age of 61 according to the Canadian Press on Tuesday. The primary reason for the retirement was because of a left knee injury.
Howard has won four gold medals for Canada at the World Men’s Curling Championships. The first two came as a third (1987 in Vancouver, British Columbia and in 1993 in Geneva, Switzerland). The next two came as a skip (2007 in Edmonton, Alberta and 2012 in Basel, Switzerland). While as a third, Glenn Howard curled for his brother Russ Howard.
It is also interesting that in all four of Howard’s World Men’s Curling Championship appearances, he won the gold medal in men’s curling. Howard’s four Brier titles came in Edmonton (1987), Ottawa, Ontario (1993), Hamilton, Ontario (2007), and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2012). You could argue that it is the Brier that Howard is best known for, as he competed at 20 Canadian National Men’s Curling Championships.
Howard also won 14 World Curling Tour events. He won The National four times (2002, 2004, 2012 and 2014), six Masters (2006, two in 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2013), two Canadian Opens (2009 and 2012), and two Players’ Championships (2008 and 2013).
In other curling news, Brendan Bottcher of Spruce Grove, Alberta also made curling headlines on Tuesday, as he will be part of a new team in 2024-25. The other three curlers on his team (Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert and Marc Kennedy) will remain curling together and will announce a new skip by Friday.
