Bobbie Lammie is curling bronze medallist and All-Star

Bobbie Lammie's week-long excellence won him a place on the All-Star Select Team at the World Championship in Las Vegas to go with a bronze medal, but the 21-year-old was still frustrated that he and his Scotland team-mates missed out on their main goal of winning the event.
Back row (left to right): Ross Paterson (alternate) Alan Hannah (coach). Front row (left to right): Hammy McMillan jnr, Bobbie Lammie, Grant Hardie, Bruce Mouat (skip).Back row (left to right): Ross Paterson (alternate) Alan Hannah (coach). Front row (left to right): Hammy McMillan jnr, Bobbie Lammie, Grant Hardie, Bruce Mouat (skip).
Back row (left to right): Ross Paterson (alternate) Alan Hannah (coach). Front row (left to right): Hammy McMillan jnr, Bobbie Lammie, Grant Hardie, Bruce Mouat (skip).

Young enough that he could have played in this year’s World Junior Championships, Lammie’s statistics showed that he was the outstanding second at the competition and their lead, Hammy McMillan, just missed out on joining him by 0.2 per cent.

However with third Grant Hardie and skip Bruce Mouat also producing an array of brilliant shots in the course of the tournament, they recovered from their disappointment following the semi-final, to thrash Korea 11-4 in the bronze medal decider, ending their campaign with a total of 12 wins in 14 matches, a record bettered only by gold medallists Sweden.

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“I’m obviously delighted
with how we performed but the goal this week was to win,” said Lammie.

“The All Star inclusion was a bonus and a nice add-on to the week and we are happy to come away with a medal.”

Having already become the first Scottish men to win a Grand Slam event, while Mouat was the youngest male skip to do so, their performance has strengthened their belief that they have no-one to fear as they head across the North American border for two more high-profile events.

“It is pretty special to be included among those 
players but I think we all know we are up there with those teams now and we can definitely compete alongside them,” said Lammie.

“Maybe a few underestimated us coming into this event this week. We came here to win but we are happy to come away with a medal.

“We now head to the GSOC Players Championships [Toronto – 10-15 April] and GSOC Champions Cup [Calgary – 24-29 April] where it will be a bit more relaxed than this week but we will still be looking to put in good performances and will be angling for those wins.”

Proud as they were of winning Scotland’s first medal in five years at a men’s World Championships, there was particular frustration that their sole poor performance came against the Canadian defending champions whom they had previously beaten and who would go on to lose heavily to world No 1 Team Edin from Sweden in the final.

“We wanted to play against Canada like we did in the bronze game,” said skip Mouat, following the defeat of Korea, which was so comprehensive that both teams entertained the audience in the 8,000-seater Orleans Arena with trick shots in the compulsory eighth end.

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“Who knows what would have happened if we had performed like that. So it is a wee bit bittersweet but we are still proud to come away with a medal. We really stuck together after a tough loss,” he continued.

Mouat added: “Las Vegas has been amazing, it is a cool arena and facility for a world championships and the weather has been great so we were able to relax in between sessions.

“I am immensely proud of the team and how they have played all week.”