Anne "Annie" Laird (born 20 May 1970) is a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

curler. In 1991, Laird won a bronze medal at the

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playing lead for

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. In 2002, Laird was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the

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, playing lead for

Jackie Lockhart Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart (née Steele, born 22 March 1965) is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games. She ...

. Laird replaced

Karen Addison Karen Addison (born 28 August 1970) is a Scottish curler. In 1990, Addison won the World Junior Curling Championships playing third for the Scottish team, skipped by Kirsty Addison. She won the gold again two years later in 1992, but did not ...

as the alternate in the British curling team for the

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, after Addison was deselected.

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