Kingussie Camanachd

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clubname = Kingussie


fullname = Kingussie Camanachd
gaelicname = Comann Camanachd Chinn a' Ghiuthsaich
nickname = The Kings
founded = 1893
ground = The Dell, Kingussie
manager = Jimmy Gow
league = Premier League
season = 2007
position = 1st
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Kingussie Camanachd is a shinty team from Kingussie, Scotland and according to the Guinness Book of Records 2005, is World sport's most successful sporting team of all time, winning 20 consecutive league championships and going 4 years unbeaten at one stage in the early 1990s. Kingussie currently play in the Marine Harvest Premier League and their second team play in North Division 2.

History

The club was founded in 1893. It won the first ever Camanachd Cup in 1896 and the club has won the cup more times than any other team, apart from Newtonmore.

The senior team once held a 63 game unbeaten record and the junior team achieved 100 games unbeaten in the early 90s.

The Club's world record of domination in sport was finally brought to an end on the 2nd of September 2006 when old rivals Newtonmore defeated Oban Camanachd. This meant that Kingussie could not catch the team at the top of the league.

Fort William won the league in 2006 but Kingussie gained a modicum of revenge by defeating Fort in the 2006 Camanachd Cup Final.

In 2007, they signed Fraser Inglis from Oban Camanachd who helped Kingussie regain the league again, the club also won the MacAulay Cup in 2007 against Inveraray.

The most notable Kingussie player of recent times has been Ronald Ross who has achieved iconic status in the game.

The club are now working closely with Newtonmore to help revitalise the grassroots game in the area, whose poor state has been masked by the continued success of the Kingussie senior side. [http://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/2158/Ancient_rivalries_subsumed_to_game's_need.html]

Jimmy Gow returned as manager for the third time in 2008.

External links

* [http://www.shinty.com/kingussie/Default.htm Kingussie @ Shinty.com]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7h7rzwX9w The Legendary Ronald Ross Scoring in Camanachd Cup Final]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/5351168.stm Kingussue win the Camanachd 2006]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/2987928.stm Kingussie Confirmed as Greatest Side in World Sport]
* [http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.1296530.0.0.php Ronald Ross Profile]
* [http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149213&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149206&contentPK=19813015&folderPk=85709&pNodeId=149229 Gow returns to the Helm] [Kingussie Shinty Club http://www.kingussie-shinty-club.co.uk]