Ernie Richardson
Overview
Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
(born August 4, 1931 in Stoughton
Stoughton, Saskatchewan
Stoughton is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. A small police service, the Stoughton Police Service no longer exists and is now in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to provide policing service to the town and surrounding area.-Demographics:...
, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
) is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and world curling
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
champion.
Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
-based team made up of his brother Garnet
Garnet Richardson
Garnet Samuel "Sam" Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played second for the "World famous Richardsons", which won four Briers and four World Curling Championships....
and cousins Arnold
Arnold Richardson
Arnold W. Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played third for the "World famous Richardsons", which won four Briers and four World Curling Championships....
, Wes Richardson
Wes Richardson
Wesley H. "Wes" Richardson is a Canadian curler. He played lead for the "World famous Richardsons", winning three of their four Briers and World Curling Championships....
, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues. The Richardson Rink dominated Canadian and world curling during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beginning in 1959, Ernie Richardson's team won the Canadian Championship four times in five years and captured four World Championships
World Curling Championships
The World Curling Championships are annual curling events which showcase the world's best curlers, organized by the World Curling Federation. There are men's, women's and mixed championships. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's in 1979...
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