Randy Ferbey

Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Last updated 8/27/2026

Randy Ferbey won four World Curling Championship titles and six Canadian national championships as skip of the "Ferbey Four," widely regarded as one of the most dominant curling rinks in the sport's history, sweeping Canadian and world titles repeatedly during the early 2000s. His team's sustained dominance during that period was considered so complete that rival Canadian teams reportedly altered their own strategic approaches specifically to try to counter Ferbey's team's particular tactical tendencies, a level of game-planning attention rarely directed at a single opposing rink in curling. Ferbey's tactical intelligence and his team's consistency under pressure in high-stakes championship matches made his rink the benchmark against which subsequent dominant curling teams, including Kevin Martin's later Olympic championship rink, were measured throughout the 2000s. His combined four World Championships place Ferbey among the most decorated skips in the sport's history, and the "Ferbey Four" remains one of the most frequently cited examples of sustained team-based dominance across curling's modern competitive era.

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