Bob Cowan (curler)

For other people named Robert Cowan, see Robert Cowan (disambiguation).

Bob Cowan
Curler  ♂
Other names	Robert A. Cowan[1]
Born	c. 1947 (age 76–77)
Team
Curling club	Magnum CC, Irvine
Curling career
Member Association	Scotland
World Championship appearances	1 (1983)
Medal record Curling Scottish Men's Championship 1983

Robert A. Cowan (born c. 1947)[2] is a Scottish curler, journalist, curling historian, blogger.

At the national level, he is a 1983 Scottish men's champion curler.

He is the co-founder of The Curling History Blog (co-founded in 2008 with David B. Smith[3]), one of the main sources about curling history (mainly in Scotland, the United Kingdom, and Europe). He is the author of several books about curling history.

At the time of the 1983 World Championships he was a part-time sports writer for the Glasgow Herald and a lecturer in clinical biochemistry at the University of Glasgow.[2]

Teams

Men's

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Events
1980–81	Graeme P. Adam	Ken J. Horton	Robert A. Cowan	Robin J. Copland	EdInt 1981 [1]
1981–82	Graeme P. Adam	Ken J. Horton	Andrew McQuistin	Robert A. Cowan	EdInt 1982 [1]
1982–83	Graeme Adam	Ken Horton	Andrew McQuistin	Bob Cowan	SMCC 1983 WCC 1983 (5th)

Mixed

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Events
1979–80	Graeme Adam	Kerr Graham	Carolyn Hibberd	Bob Cowan	Alison Brown	SMxCC 1980

References

1. "Edinburgh International – Past Winners". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
2. "Sweeping up". Regina Leader-Post. 15 April 1983. p. 24. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
3. David B. Smith died in 2015

Further reading

• Curling and the Silver Broom: the story of the World Curling Championship (1985). Bob Cowan, 174 pages, ISBN 9780862670917, ASIN 0862670918

External links

• Bob Cowan at World Curling
• Bob Cowan on Twitter