A civic reception in honour of local Winter Olympic gold medallists Eve Muirhead and Mili Smith was held at Dewars Centre on Friday.
The evening celebrated the duo’s curling champion success at Beijing 2022 and all local curlers’ successes, while Perth Curling Club 1988 held their final games and season finale.
Curlers Eve, from Blair Atholl, and Mili, from Guildtown, were joined by team-mates Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff and coach Kristian Lindstrom at the event hosted by Provost Dennis Melloy.
Eve skippered the Scottish rink to gold in Beijing in February.
Their 10-3 victory over Japan was Team GB’s first – and only – gold medal of the Winter Olympics and a first curling gold medal for 20 years.
Provost Melloy said: “I am delighted to be hosting this Civic Reception in honour of Team Muirhead and congratulate them on their amazing gold medal success on behalf of all of Perth and Kinross.
“Their early morning victory will be remembered as one of the great Scottish – and British - sporting triumphs.
“Eve is a great captain and I’m sure she, and the rest of her team-mates, will inspire future generations to curling success.”
Chairman of Perth Curling Club 1988, David Hay, added: “Eve Muirhead and her British Olympic Curling team fulfilled a lifetime dream when they won gold at the recent Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
“For Eve it was her fourth Olympics and gold is the ultimate achievement in her glittering curling career, to go along with Olympic bronze in Sochi 2014 and world gold in 2013.
“The curlers and public in Perthshire are rightly proud of one of their own, to be on top of the world.
“This magnificent success was recognised on Friday, April 1 when the team was presented with gifts by Perth Curling and Live Active Leisure.”
Blair Atholl took the chance to celebrate local champion Eve the following day.
A party was held on Saturday in the village hall and Eve went out and about to take a look at a tribute.
The posts supporting the roof overhang at the Food in the Park (FITP) takeaway outlet and live music venue have had a coat of gold paint in her honour.
At the time of the last Winter Olympics in South Korea, FITP co-owner Davie Mckenzie went out himself to support.
He promised he would tackle the paint job if the Scottish curlers from the Muirhead family successfully won any medals.
But he returned, on that occasion, without the news he hoped for.
Now with the 2022 success still fresh in the mind, Davie and his partner Sally Judd were delighted to show off their new colour scheme to Eve.
