Iris Armstrong | |
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Curling club | Stony Mountain CC (
Stony Mountain, MB), Granite CC ( Winnipeg) |
Curling career
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Hearts appearances | 3: ( 1978, 1979, 1983) |
Medal record |
Iris Armstrong (born in Melville, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg.
She won the 1978 Canadian women's championship playing second for Cathy Pidzarko.
Iris Armstrong was inducted into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame twice: in 2005 as a curler [1] and in 2014 as a member of the 1978 Macdonald Lassies championship team, skipped by Cathy Pidzarko. [2]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
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1977—78 | Cathy Pidzarko | Chris Pidzarko | Iris Armstrong | Patti Vandekerckhove |
STOH 1978 ![]() |
1978—79 | Christine Pidzarko | Rose Tanasichuk | Iris Armstrong | Patti Vande |
STOH 1979 ![]() |
1982—83 | Patti Vande | Carol Dunstone | Iris Armstrong | Maureen Bonar | STOH 1983 (4th) |
She was born in Melville, Saskatchewan. In 1955, her family moved to Winnipeg. She started competitive curling in 1971. [1] Her son Doug Armstrong was on the 1999 Labatt Brier championship team that won a silver medal at the 1999 World Men's Curling Championship. [3] She was married to Keith Armstrong, who died in 2017. [4]