The 2008 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held October 10-13 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2008-09 Women's World Curling Tour.
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 5 | |||||||||||||
Barb Spencer | 4 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 8 | |||||||||||||
Stefanie Lawton | 1 | |||||||||||||
Stefanie Lawton | 7 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Anderson | 0 | |||||||||||||
Cheryl Bernard | 2 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 8 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 9 | |||||||||||||
Kristie Moore | 4 | |||||||||||||
Sherry Middaugh | 2 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 8 | |||||||||||||
Heather Rankin | 4 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Kleibrink | 8 |
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Amy Lee Nixon is a Canadian retired curler and lawyer from Calgary, Alberta. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2006 Winter Olympic women's curling team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink. Nixon was also the chair of the board of governors of Curling Canada from 2021 to 2022.
Charley M. Thomas is a Canadian curler from Calgary who currently skips his own rink on the World Curling Tour.
Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She represented Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the team's skip, winning the silver medal in women's curling after falling to Sweden in the final. Her first major tournament win came at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Edmonton, Alberta. She also represented Canada again at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang as the alternate for Rachel Homan's team.
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