The 2006 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic

Autumn Gold Curling Classic

The Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic is the very first Grand Slam event of the season on the Women's World Curling Tour. It is held annually on the Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The first Autumn Gold Classic was held in 1978, and at the...

was the 29th annual edition of the event. It marked the first Grand Slam event of the Women's World Curling Tour

World Curling Tour

The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

. It was also the first ever women's Grand Slam event to be held, as it was the first season for the women's Grand Slam. The event was held October 6-9 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The total purse for the event was $51,000 with $14,000 going to the winning team of Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

, Jeanna Schraeder

Jeanna Schraeder

Jeanna Schraeder is a Canadian curler from British Columbia. She currently plays third for Kelly Scott....

, Sasha Carter

Sasha Carter

Sasha Carter also known as Sasha Bergner, is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia. She currently plays second for Kelly Scott....

 and Renee Simons

Renee Simons

Renee Simons is a Canadian curler.Playing lead for Kelly Scott, Simons won the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, a bronze medal at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship and a gold medal at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship...

. They beat Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Webster skips one of the top teams in Alberta, but due to the depth in the province, she has been unable to get out of the province to the Canadian national championships.In 2009, Webster was the first qualifier at the Canadian Olympic...

's rink in the final.

Participating teams (skips)

Sherry Anderson

Sherry Anderson

Sherry Anderson is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anderson has been to five Scott Tournament of Hearts, four as a skip. Her first Scotts were in 1994 when her team lost in the semi-final. Anderson returned the following year, but finished out of the playoffs at 6-5...

 Glenys Bakker

Glenys Bakker

Glenys Bakker is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Bakker played second for Shannon Kleibrink's bronze medal winning team at the 2006 Winter Olympics....

 Cheryl Bernard

Cheryl Bernard

Cheryl Bernard is a Canadian curler from Calgary. 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....

 Renelle Bryden Diane Foster LaDawn Funk Kerry Galusha

Kerry Galusha

Kerry Galusha is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her team out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in Yellowknife....

 Brittany Gregor Jenn Hanna

Jenn Hanna

Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...

 Janet Harvey

Janet Harvey

Janet Harvey is a Canadian curler.In 1984, Harvey played second for Darcy Kirkness at that year's Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

 Amber Holland

Amber Holland

Amber Holland is a Canadian curler. Holland skipped Saskatchewan's team to a national women's championship in 2011 by defeating defending champion Jennifer Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts...

 Kristy Jenion Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones (curler)

Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Jones, a lawyer, is corporate counsel for Wellington West Capital and a Windsor Park Collegiate graduate.-Early success:...

 Andrea Kelly

Andrea Kelly

Andrea Kelly is a Canadian curler from Aroostook, New Brunswick.Andrea is originally from Aroostook, New Brunswick and started curling in her youth at the Perth-Andover Legion Curling Club along with her brothers Blake and Michael.Kelly skipped Team New Brunswick in both the 2002 and 2004 Canadian...

 Cathy King

Cathy King

Cathy King , formerly Cathy Borst is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta...

 Shannon Kleibrink

Shannon Kleibrink

Shannon Kleibrink is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy...

 Stefanie Lawton

Stefanie Lawton

Stefanie Lawton is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After an appearance at the 1997 Canadian Junior Championships, she would go on to win the 2000 Championships with the help of her team of sister Marliese Miller , Stacy Helm and Amanda MacDonald . At the worlds that year, she...

 Terry Loschuk Kyla MacLachlan Krista McCarville Moe Meguro

Moe Meguro

is a Japanese curler, born November 20, 1984 in Sorachi District, Hokkaidō.- History :Moe Meguro won her first medal at the international level at the 2004 Pacific Curling Championships winning the gold medal. She played lead under skip Yumie Hayashi....

 Sherry Middaugh

Sherry Middaugh

Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

 Karen Porritt Ludmila Privivkova

Ludmila Privivkova

Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova is a curler from Russia....

 Heather Rankin

Heather Rankin

Heather Rankin is a Canadian curler currently residing in Alberta.While living in Nova Scotia, Rankin won the provincial junior championships in 1984 and would skip the Nova Scotia team at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

 Jo-Ann Rizzo Deb Santos Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott

Kelly Scott is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.-1995-2005:...

 Renee Sonnenberg

Renée Sonnenberg

Renée Sonnenberg is a Canadian curler from Grande Prairie, Alberta.Sonnenberg is two time provincial champion....

 Barb Spencer Wang Bingyu

Wang Bingyu

Wang Bingyu is a Chinese curler. She is the skip of the national team, and throws last rocks.-Curling career:Wang began curling in 2001. By 2004, she played in her first international event- skipping the Chinese team at the World Junior B Curling Championships...

 Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Webster skips one of the top teams in Alberta, but due to the depth in the province, she has been unable to get out of the province to the Canadian national championships.In 2009, Webster was the first qualifier at the Canadian Olympic...

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