Charley Thomas

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Charley Thomas
Curler
Charley Thomas.jpg
Born (1986-04-04) April 4, 1986 (age 38)
Victoria, British Columbia
Team
Curling club Langenburg CC,
Langenburg, SK
Skip Charley Thomas
Third Tyler Hartung
Second Jayden Shwaga
Lead Matthew Lang
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member Association Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta (2003–2018)
Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario (2018–19)
Flag of Saskatchewan.svg Saskatchewan (2024–present)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		1 (2015)
Top CTRS ranking 9th (2015–16)
Medal record
Men's Curling
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Jeonju
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Eveleth
Representing Flag of Alberta.svg  Alberta
Canadian Mixed Doubles Trials
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Ottawa
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Ottawa

Charley M. Thomas (born April 4, 1986 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian curler from Calgary who currently skips his own rink on the World Curling Tour.

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Curling career

Thomas started his career with an Alberta Provincial Junior title in 2004 and made his debut on the national and international curling scene representing Alberta and winning the 2006 Canadian Junior Curling Championships (Thunder Bay, Ontario) and 2006 World Junior Curling Championships (Jeonju, Korea). Thomas and team also qualified for the 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships by winning the 2007 Alberta Junior Provincials at the Granite Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta. He went on to win his second straight Canadian Junior title over Brett Gallant's rink from Prince Edward Island, as well as a consecutive World Junior title by defeating Niklas Edin of Sweden.

After juniors, Thomas skipped his own team before teaming up with Chris Schille in 2008, throwing fourth stones for the team. Thomas played one season with Schille. Thomas returned to skipping between 2010 and 2014, and joined the Virtue rink for the 2014-15 season.

Thomas and teammate Kalynn Park won the 2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials and represented Canada at the 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship to a 4th-place finish.

Thomas returned as a skip for the 2015-16 curling season, playing in two Grand Slam of Curling events that season and four more in the 2016-17 curling season (including playing third on Brad Gushue's team in one event, as Gushue was out due to a hip injury. [1]

Personal life

Thomas was a student at the University of Calgary in 2017. [2]

Awards

Grand Slam record

Key
CChampion
FLost in Final
SFLost in Semifinal
QFLost in Quarterfinals
R16Lost in the round of 16
QDid not advance to playoffs
T2Played in Tier 2 event
DNPDid not participate in event
N/ANot a Grand Slam event that season
Event 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Elite 10 N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/ADNP Q DNPDNPDNP
Masters / World Cup DNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPQF [a] DNPDNP
Tour Challenge N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/ADNPQT2T2
The National QDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPQFDNPDNP
Canadian Open DNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPQDNP
Players' DNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP Q DNPDNP

Notes

  1. ↑ Subbing for Team Gushue for injured Brad Gushue

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References

  1. ↑ "Charley Thomas to spare with Team Gushue at GSOC Masters - Sportsnet.ca".
  2. ↑ 2017 Home Hardware RTTR Media Guide
  3. ↑ "Canadian Junior Mens". Archived from the original on 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
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