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Sandra Schmirler

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Canadian curler (1963-2000)

CanadaLived 1963 to 2000 · aged 36
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Sandra Marie Schmirler was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year women's curling was a medal sport.

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Schmirler's in-off for three to win the 1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials against Shannon Kleibrink is one of her most famous shots, both in terms of degree of difficulty and for the fact that it sent her team to the 1998 Winter Olympics.Schmirler's in-off for three to win the 1997 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials against Shannon Kleibrink is one of her most famous shots, both in terms of degree of difficulty and for the fact that it sent her team to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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Saskatchewan Order of Merit
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

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Sandra Marie Schmirler was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler also skipped (captained) her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year women's curling was a medal sport. At tournaments where she was not competing, Schmirler sometimes worked as a commentator for CBC Sports, which popularized her nickname "Schmirler the Curler" and claimed she was the only person who had a name that rhymed with the sport she played. She died in 2000 at 36 of cancer, leaving a legacy that extended outside of curling. Schmirler was honoured posthumously with an induction into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and was awarded the World Curling Freytag Award, which later led to her induction into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame.

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Lived 1963 to 2000 · aged 36
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