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Canadian curler

Michael R. Harris^[1] (born June 9, in Georgetown, Ontario) is a Canadian curler.

Harris led his team to win the silver medal at the Winter Olympics.

Curling career

Relatively unknown due to the shadows cast out of Ontario in the form of superstars Russ Howard, Ed Werenich and Wayne Middaugh, and having not qualified to a Brier out of Ontario yet, Harris rose to stardom when he skipped his team of Richard Hart, Collin Mitchell and George Karrys to a win at the Canadian Olympic trials in , qualifying the team for the Winter Olympics.

They would defeat the favoured Kevin Martin in the trials final, after a round robin record had the team sole 1st and a direct bye to the final.

At the Olympics, Harris' team dominated throughout, while other pre-Olympic favourites such as reigning World Champions Sweden (skipped by Peja Lindholm) and reigning World silver medallist and European Champions Germany (skipped by Andy Kapp) struggled