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Linda Moore
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Women’s Curling
World championships
Gold medal – first place 1985 Jönköping Team
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1988 Women's Curling
(Demonstration)

Linda Moore (born c.1954)[1] is a Canadian curler from British Columbia and world champion. 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, going 10-1 through the roundrobin and defeating Marilyn Darte's Ontario rink in the final. Moore's team went on to win the world championship that year.[2] She lost in the finals of the 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts to Darte and was selected as skip on the tournament's all-star team.

Moore played on the Canadian team that finished first at the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

In 1989, she succeeded Vera Pezer as a member of TSN's curling broadcast team.

See also

Delbrook Senior Secondary School

References

  1. ^ "Ontario to face '54 champions in curling final," Toronto Star, March 1, 1986, p. C4.
  2. ^ "Curling – Women: World Championships", retrieved on March 27, 2008