Paul Savage (curler)

Paul Savage
Paul Savage
Brier appearances
World Championship; appearances	1 (1983)
Olympic; appearances	1 (1998)
Medal record
Men’s Curling
Representing Canada
Olympic Games
World championships
Representing Ontario
Labatt Brier

A. Paul "The Round Mound of Come Around"^[1] Savage (born June 25, 1947, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler, world champion and Olympic medallist.

Career

In 1983 he played

Nagano with the Mike Harris rink, where he was the substitute.^[4]^[5]

He is considered to be one of the best left-handers to play the game.

Savage made seven appearances at the

Ontario rink and twice as third. He was named to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1988.^[3]

In 2009, Savage and the rest of his 1983 world champion team, which included Werenich, John Kawaja and Neil Harrison were inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.^[6]

Personal life

He lives in Markham, Ontario.

Savage has a tattoo showing a curling stone nested inside the Canadian flag, which he got before the 1998 Nagano Olympics. In 2002 he made a cameo appearance in the curling comedy

Men With Brooms, playing a television announcer.^[5]

References

^ Bob Weeks, Curling Ecetera, pg 97
^ "Personal details". results.worldcurling.org. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
^ ^a ^b "Savage, A. Paul". The Canadian Curling Hall of Fame. Canadian Curling Association. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
^ "1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Curling" Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 20, 2008)
^ ^a ^b "Paul Savage". SR/Olympics. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
^ "Werenich, Savage, Kawaja, Harrison Rink". oshof.ca. Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2014.