2008–09 curling season explained

The 2008-09 curling season began in September 2008 and ended in April 2009.

Season of Champions top three finishes

(Only team's skip listed)

Event	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
	(Grassie)	(Tuck)	(McKee)
Continental Cup	World
TSN Skins Game	Randy Ferbey	Glenn Howard	Jennifer Jones Kevin Martin
Canadian Juniors (men's)	(Gallant)	(Johnston)	(Yablonski)
Canadian Juniors (women's)	(Lawes)	(Homan)	(Scheidegger)
Scotties Tournament of Hearts	(Jones)	(Mallett)	(Larouche)
Tim Hortons Brier	(Martin)	(Stoughton)	(G. Howard)
World Junior Championships (men's)	(Stjern)	(Gallant)	(Plys)
World Junior Championships (women's)	(E. Muirhead)	(Lawes)	(Baumann)
Canada Cup (men's)	Kevin Martin	Randy Ferbey	Jeff Stoughton
Canada Cup (women's)	Shannon Kleibrink	Marie-France Larouche	Cheryl Bernard
Canadian Seniors (men's)	(Delaney)	(R. Howard)	(M. Bernard)
Canadian Seniors (women's)	(Pinkney)	(Smiley)	(Fowler)
Women's World Championships	(Wang B.)	(Norberg)	(Jensen)
Men's World Championships	(Murdoch)	(Martin)	(Ulsrud)

Event	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
European Mixed	(Schöpp)	(Snítil)	(Edin)
Pacific Championships (men's)	(Wang F.)	(Morozumi)	(Becker)
Pacific Championships (women's)	(Wang B.)	(Kim MY)	(Meguro)
World Wheelchair Qualification	(Jäger)	(Wang H.)	(Romanov)
European Championships (men's)	(Murdoch)	(Ulsrud)	(Kapp)
European Championships (women's)	(Ott)	(Norberg)	(Jensen)
European Junior Challenge (men's)	(G. Muirhead)	(Drosdov)	(Vincent)
European Junior Challenge (women's)	(Coulout)	(Kubeskova)	(Apollonio)
Pacific Juniors (men's)	(Zang)	(Kim HT)	(Miller)
Pacific Juniors (women's)	(Fujiwasa)	(Liu)	(Gim)
USA-Brazil Challenge	(Birr)	(Mello)
European Youth Olympic Festival (men's)	(Gulka)	(Dick)	(Rølvåg)
European Olympic Youth Festival (women's)	(Sloan)	(Iten)	(de Neergaard)
Winter Universiade (men's)	(Edin)	(Løvold)	(Wang F.)
Winter Universiade (women's)	(Wang B.)	(Nicol)	(Privivkova)
World Wheelchair Championship	(Armstrong)	(Jungell)	(Jäger)
Mixed Doubles	(Müller, Schori)	(Nagy, Szekeres)	(Grassie, Nimik)
World Seniors (men's)	(Hritzuk)	(Pustovar)	(Prentice)
World Seniors (women's)	(Sanders)	(Nedkoff)	(Meldahl)

Event	Date	Location	Runner-up skip
	Sept. 18-21	Edmonton, AB	Wang Bingyu
	Sept. 18-21	Brockville, ON
	Sept. 25-28		Anette Norberg
	Sept 26-29		Krista McCarville
	Oct. 2-5	Vernon, BC	Kelly Scott
	Oct. 10-12		Edith Loudon
	Oct. 10-13	Calgary, AB	Cheryl Bernard
	Oct. 17-20	Kamloops, BC	Marla Mallett
	Oct. 17-20	Medicine Hat, AB	Lisa Johnson
	Oct 17-19	Zürich, Switzerland
	Oct 17-20		Wang Bingyu
	Oct. 23-27	Quebec City, QC	Allison Ross
	Oct. 24-27	Winnipeg, MB	Kelly Scott
	Oct. 30-Nov. 2		Binia Feltscher-Beeli
	Oct. 30-Nov. 2	Red Deer, AB	Shannon Kleibrink
	Nov. 7-10	Duluth, MN	Amy Wright
	Nov. 7-10	Saskatoon, SK	Michelle Englot
	Nov. 7-9	Kemptville, ON	Sherry Middaugh
Wayden Transportation Ladies Classic	Nov. 14-17	Winnipeg, MB	Stefanie Lawton
	Nov. 20-24	Stonewall, MB	Kerri Flett
	Nov. 21-24	Brantford, ON	Jacqueline Harrison
Sobeys Slam	Nov. 27-30	New Glasgow, NS	Stefanie Lawton
	Nov. 28-30	Vancouver, BC	Ashleigh Clark
	Nov. 28-30	Wetzikon, Switzerland
	Nov. 28-Dec. 1	Lloydminster, AB	Andrea McCutcheon
	Dec. 11-15	Ottawa, ON	Amber Holland
	Jan. 9-11	Bern, Switzerland
	Jan. 16-19		Binia Feltscher-Beeli
	Mar. 13-19	Morris, MB	Ève Bélisle
Players' Championships	Apr. 14-19	Grande Prairie, AB	Shannon Kleibrink