{"id":499853,"date":"2026-02-26T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:38:08","slug":"winnipegs-reid-carruthers-a-former-brier-and-world-champion-retires-from-curling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499853\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg&#8217;s Reid Carruthers, a former Brier and world champion, retires from curling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Curler Reid Carruthers is retiring after a career that saw him capture Brier and world titles as part of a Manitoba team skipped by Jeff Stoughton and a world silver medal in mixed doubles.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Carruthers, from Winnipeg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVMK7yZFYKt\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced his retirement Wednesday on Instagram<\/a>, weeks after coaching Kerri Einarson&#8217;s team to a Canadian women&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n<p>Carruthers joined Stoughton&#8217;s team at second for the 2010-11 season. The team won the Brier in 2011 \u2014 Carruthers&#8217; only Canadian men&#8217;s title in 13 appearances \u2014 and went on to beat Scotland 6-5 in the world championship final later that year.<\/p>\n<p>He won a Canadian mixed doubles title alongside Joanne Courtney in 2017. They advanced to the world championship gold-medal game, where they lost 6-5 to Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Carruthers won two Grand Slam of Curling titles, taking the National in 2013 with Stoughton and the Champions Cup in 2016 with his own squad.<\/p>\n<p>He said retiring will give him more time to spend with his son, and that he expects to remain involved with curling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Curling has been one of the greatest constants in my life \u2014 two decades filled with practices, bonspiels, unforgettable teammates, roaring crowds, and both shots made and missed,&#8221; Carruthers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With many memories of some of the proudest moments I could ever imagine, what began as a passion quickly became a lifelong pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m beyond grateful for every opportunity this sport has given me. Curling&#8217;s been a huge part of my identity and although it will be hard to fill that void, I am very much looking forward to the next chapter in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-499853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}