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2015 Ford® World Men's Curling Championship - Kosuke Morozumi wins the Collie Campbell Memorial

2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

Kosuke Morozumi of Japan has won the Collie Campbell Memorial Award at the 2015 Ford® World Men's Curling Championship 


2015, Halifax N.S. Ford Men's World Curling Championship.Dave Peterson, Japan lead Kosuke Morozumi, Collie Campbell Award, Curling Canada/michael burns photo

The Collie Campbell Memorial Award was created in honour of Canadian Collie Campbell who served as President of the International Curling Federation (later renamed the World Curling Federation) from 1969 to his death in 1978.
The award is a fitting memorial as the wording on the original plaque says:
“Presented annually to the player selected by his fellow competitors in the World Curling Championship for the Air Canada Silver Broom who best exemplifies the traditional curling values of gentlemanly skill, fair play and sportsmanship that Collie Campbell strove to perpetuate as a curler and as president of the International Curling Federation (1969-1978).”
Good sportsmanship was important to Collie. He always said “Curlers do not need an umpire or a referee or rules. They govern themselves as gentlemen.”
He was a man of many talents, abilities and interests. His chosen profession was that of Mining Engineer. In the 1930’s he became one of the youngest members of Parliament in the Federal Government of Canada. Asked to join the Provincial Government of Ontario, he held the post of Minister of Mines, Energy and Resources. When war was declared in 1939 he immediately signed up and, because of his expertise and contacts with miners, was put in charge of forming the tunnelling company of the Royal Canadian Engineers. Over the course of the next six years, until the end of the Second World War, he distinguished himself well by rising to the rank of Brigadier General and received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and other honours from Britain, France and the United States. Most of his leaves were spent in Scotland ‘Bonspieling’. The curling contacts he made at the time were invaluable to him, particularly for his tenure as President of the Canadian Curling Association (1947-1948) and later for his work as President of the International Curling Federation when he transformed the Scotch Cup into the World Curling Championships.

Winners of the Collie Campbell Memorial Award

Year
Awardee (Country)
Awarded at Championships in:
2014
Ewan MacDonald (Scotland)
Beijing, China
2013
Niklas Edin (Sweden)
Victoria, Canada
2012
Sean Becker (New Zealand)
Basel, Switzerland
2011
Torger Ulsrud (Norway)
Regina, Canada
2010
Torger Nergård (Norway)
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
2009
Fengchun Wang (China)
Moncton, Canada
2008
Thomas Dufour (France)
Grand Forks, USA
2007
Ralph Stöckli (Switzerland)
Edmonton, Canada
2006
Ewan MacDonald (Scotland)
Lowell, USA
2005
Marco Mariani (Italy)
Victoria, Canada
2004
Sean Becker (New Zealand)*
Gvle, Sweden
2003
Markku Uusipaavalniemi (Finland)*
Winnipeg, Canada
2002
Pål Trulsen (Norway)
Bismark, USA
2001
Spencer Mugnier (France)
Lausanne, Switzerland
2000
Greg McAulay (Canada)
Glasgow, Scotland
1999
Sean Becker (New Zealand)*
Saint John, Canada
1998
Markku Uusipaavalniemi (Finland)*
Kamloops, Canada
1997
Jussi Uusipaavalniemi (Finland)*
Berne, Switzerland
1996
Mikael Hasselborg (Sweden)
Hamilton, Canada
1995
Peja Lindholm (Sweden)
Brandon, Canada
1994
Gert Larsen (Denmark)
Oberstdorf, Germany
1993
Hugh Millikin (Australia)
Geneva, Switzerland
1992
Jussi Uusipaavalniemi (Finland)*
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1991
Markus Eggler (Switzerland)
Winnipeg, Canada
1990
Tommy Stjerne (Denmark)*
Vasteras, Sweden
1989
Tommy Stjerne (Denmark)*
Milwaukee, USA
1988
Bo Bakke (Norway)
Lausanne, Switzerland
1987
Gorin Roxin (Sweden)
Vancouver, Canada
1986
Uli Sutor (Germany)
Toronto, Canada
1985
Tim Wright (USA)
Glasgow, Scotland
1984
Mike Hay (Scotland)
Duluth, USA
1983
Keith Wendorf (Germany)*
Regina, Canada
1982
Rick Lang (Canada)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1981
Mark Olsen (Canada)
London, Canada
1980
Greig Henderson (Scotland)
Moncton, Canada
1979
Keith Wendorf (Germany)*
Berne, Switzerland


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