Julie Lynn Skinner ( Sutton, born April 23, 1968 in

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) is a retired

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curler and Olympic medallist from

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. She received a bronze medal at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soó ...

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."2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City, United States – Curling"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 19, 2008) She is also a former

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from 2000. After winning the

1987 Canadian Junior Curling Championships The 1987 Pepsi Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held at the Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It was the first Canadian Junior championship to hold both the men's and women's events in conjunction with o ...

, Skinner became the junior world champion in 1988, as skip for the Canadian team. She also won the

1986 Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship The 1986 Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship was held March 15-22 at the Noranda Curling Club in Noranda, Quebec. Team British Columbia, skipped by Jodie Sutton won the event, defeating Newfoundland's Jill Noseworthy rink in the final, ...

playing third for her sister Jodie Sutton.

Personal life

At the time of her World junior championship title, Skinner was a student at the

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and was from

Oliver, British Columbia Oliver is a town near the south end of the Okanagan Valley in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, with a population of nearly 5,000 people. It is located along the Okanagan River by Tuc-el-nuit Lake between Osoyoos and Okanagan ...

. She is the twin sister of her teammate Jodie Sutton.''

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, 1 Mar 1991, pg B2, "Ousted Goring was not boring"

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* 1968 births Living people Canadian women curlers Canadian women's curling champions Olympic curlers of Canada Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in curling Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics World curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants Canada Cup (curling) participants Curlers from Victoria, British Columbia People from Oliver, British Columbia University of Victoria alumni Twin sportspeople {{Canada-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub