11 Oct
2023
11 Oct
'23
8:07 a.m.
If you fancy observing some reasonably good quality curling starting this
weekend and continuing on to next weekend, you can swing by the ice rink
and see what excitement is on offer!
Cheers,
Hibby
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From: Curl Aberdeen <admin(a)curl-aberdeen.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 08:45
Subject: World Mixed Curling Championships 2023
To: <dave.hibberd(a)gmail.com>
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World Mixed Curling Championships
*Switzerland at the World Mixed Championship 2022 © WCF / Ansis Ventins*
Aberdeen, Scotland – Aberdeen, Scotland will host the first competition of
the 2023–2024 World Curling season, the World Mixed Curling Championship.
34 teams will play for the world mixed curling champions title from 14–21
October in Curl Aberdeen, a modern, purpose-built six-sheet facility
situated to the west of Aberdeen.
This will be the seventh edition of the championship, the last being held
in 2022 at the same venue. A year ago, Canada was crowned world champions
after defeating hosts Scotland in the final. Switzerland earned the bronze
medals.
*Participating teams*
The participating teams are divided into four groups.
Group A: Belgium, England, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Scotland,
Sweden and Wales
Group B: Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania,
New Zealand, Poland and Slovenia
Group C: Austria, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, India, Italy, Spain and United
States
Group D: Czechia, Hongkong, Latvia, Nigeria, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland
and Ukraine.
Norway’s skip, Steffen Walstad is a world mixed champion and World
University Games gold medallist, both from 2015. Third thrower Maia
Ramsfjell was the alternate player of the world silver medal winning
Norwegian women’s team earlier this year, while lead Eirin Mesloe is a
world mixed bronze medallist from 2019.
The Spanish team is skipped by Sergio Vez for the sixth time on this level.
This same team won a world mixed silver medal in 2018. Vez also earned a
world mixed doubles bronze medal in 2014.
Switzerland has one change in their line-up compared to last year’s world
mixed bronze medal winning team. Ursi Hegner will once again skip the team,
while Yves Hess will throw fourth stones, and Simon Hoehn will play second.
Sweden’s female players, Jennie Waahlin and Fanny Sjoeberg are world junior
champions from 2017, while Waahlin is also Olympic champion as the
alternate player of the Swedish women’s team in 2018.
The Italian team is skipped by Alberto Pimpini, who was the alternate
player of Joel Retornaz’s European bronze medal winning men’s squad last
year.
Scotland’s third player, Amy Mitchell won world junior gold medal as
alternate for the Scottish women’s team in February.
*Playing format and schedule*
Each group plays a round-robin. Round robin play starts on Saturday 14
October and continues until Thursday 19 October.
At the end of the round robin, all teams qualified for the play-offs are
ranked one to 12 in a merged group ranking system. The four group winners
advance directly to the quarter-final games.
Teams placed second and third in each group will play qualification games
on Friday 20 October at 10.00 to determine the last four teams in the
play-offs.
The quarter-finals will take place on Friday at 18.00.
The winners of the quarter-finals will play in the semi-finals on Saturday
at 9.30. The medal games will take place on Saturday afternoon at 14.30.
*All times are BST (British Summer Time) which is Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC) +1 hour. *
Streaming will take place on Recast following their return from
administration. More details on the streaming schedule will follow soon.
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