Linda Moore
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Canada
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| Women’s Curling | ||
| World championships | ||
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1985 Jönköping | Team |
| Olympic Games | ||
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1988 | Women's Curling (Demonstration) |
Linda Moore (born February 24, 1954 in Vancouver)[1] is a Canadian world champion curler. Since 1989, she has been a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and Ray Turnbull.
Career
While working as a schoolteacher, Moore skipped the British Columbia team to the 1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts championship and went on to win the world championship that year.[2] As skip of the defending champion Team Canada, she lost in the finals of the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts to Marilyn Darte after going 10-1 through the roundrobin. Moore was selected as skip on the tournament's all-star team.
Moore's rink defeated Connie Laliberte in the finals of the Canadian Olympic trials in 1987 and she skipped the Canadian team that finished first at the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In 1989, she succeeded Vera Pezer as a member of TSN's curling broadcast team.
See also
Delbrook Senior Secondary School
References
- ^ Canadian Olympic committee profiles, accessed March 15, 2010
- ^ "Curling – Women: World Championships", retrieved on March 27, 2008
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