Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Curling; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Gymnasium
Dates	8–25 February
No. of events	3 (1 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	116 from 13 nations

The curling competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 8 and 25 February 2018 at the Gangneung Curling Centre.[1] This was the seventh time that curling is on the Olympic program. In each of the men's and women's competitions, ten nations competed. A third competition was added for the 2018 Olympics, mixed doubles, in which teams consist of one woman and one man. There were eight participating countries in the doubles competition.[2]

Gangneung Curling Centre during the 2018 Winter Olympics

Inside view of Gangneung Curling Centre

Qualification

Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods. Nations could qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Curling Championships. Teams could also qualify through an Olympic qualification event which was held in December 2017. Seven nations qualified teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations qualified through the qualification event. As host nation, South Korea qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per gender in the curling tournaments. For the mixed doubles competition the top seven ranked teams earning qualification points from performances at the 2016 and 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship qualified along with hosts South Korea.[3]

Competition schedule

Curling competitions started the day before the Opening Ceremony and finish on the last day of the games, meaning the sport was the only one to have a competition every day of the games.[4] The following was the competition schedule for the curling competitions:

RR	Round robin	SF	Semifinals	B	3rd place play-off	F	Final

Date Event	Thu 8	Fri 9	Sat 10	Sun 11	Mon 12	Tue 13		Wed 14	Thu 15	Fri 16	Sat 17	Sun 18	Mon 19	Tue 20	Wed 21	Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25
Men's tournament								RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	SF	B	F
Women's tournament								RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR	RR		SF	B	F
Mixed doubles	RR	RR	RR	RR	SF	B	F

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
2	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
2	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
5	South Korea (KOR)*	0	1	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
6	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		3	3	3	9

Medal events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	United States (USA) John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Joe Polo	Sweden (SWE) Niklas Edin Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Christoffer Sundgren Henrik Leek	Switzerland (SUI) Benoît Schwarz Claudio Pätz Peter de Cruz Valentin Tanner Dominik Märki
Women	Sweden (SWE) Anna Hasselborg Sara McManus Agnes Knochenhauer Sofia Mabergs Jennie Wåhlin	South Korea (KOR) Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi Kim Cho-hi	Japan (JPN) Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi
Mixed doubles	Canada (CAN) Kaitlyn Lawes John Morris	Switzerland (SUI) Jenny Perret Martin Rios	Norway (NOR)¹ Kristin Skaslien Magnus Nedregotten

Notes

^ The Olympic Athletes from Russia team originally won the mixed doubles bronze medal, but were disqualified after Alexander Krushelnitskiy tested positive for meldonium.[5]

Results summary

Men's tournament

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
Sweden	Niklas Edin	7	2	62	43	34	28	13	8	87%
Canada	Kevin Koe	6	3	56	46	36	34	14	8	87%
United States	John Shuster	5	4	67	63	37	39	4	6	80%
Great Britain	Kyle Smith	5	4	55	60	40	37	8	7	82%
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	5	4	60	55	39	37	10	6	83%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	4	5	52	56	34	39	7	8	82%
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	4	5	65	63	39	39	8	8	82%
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	4	5	48	56	33	35	13	5	81%
Italy	Joël Retornaz	3	6	50	56	37	38	15	7	81%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	2	7	53	70	36	39	12	5	83%

Results

Team											Record
Canada		8–3	6–4	5–3	8–4	7–4	7–6	2–5	6–8	7–9	6–3
Denmark	3–8		6–7	6–4	4–6	8–10	9–8	5–9	7–9	5–9	2–7
Great Britain	4–6	7–6		7–6	6–5	10–3	5–11	6–8	6–5	4–10	5–4
Italy	3–5	4–6	6–7		5–6	6–4	6–8	3–7	7–4	10–9	3–6
Japan	4–8	6–4	5–6	6–5		6–4	4-10	4–11	5–6	8–2	4–5
Norway	4–7	10–8	3–10	4–6	4–6		7–5	7–2	5–7	8–5	4–5
South Korea	6–7	8–9	11–5	8–6	10-4	5–7		2–7	8–7	7–11	4–5
Sweden	5–2	9–5	8–6	7–3	11–4	2–7	7–2		3–10	10–4	7–2
Switzerland	8–6	9–7	5–6	4–7	6–5	7–5	7–8	10–3		4–8	5–4
United States	9–7	9–5	10–4	9–10	2–8	5–8	11–7	4–10	8–4		5–4

Playoffs

Semifinals			Gold medal game

1	Sweden	9
4	Switzerland	3
			1	Sweden	7
			3	United States	10
2	Canada	3
3	United States	5	Bronze medal game

			2	Canada	5
			4	Switzerland	7

Women's tournament

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	8	1	75	44	41	34	5	15	79%
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	7	2	64	48	42	34	14	13	83%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	6	3	61	56	39	38	12	6	79%
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	5	4	59	55	38	36	10	13	75%
China	Wang Bingyu	4	5	57	65	35	38	12	5	78%
Canada	Rachel Homan	4	5	68	59	40	36	10	12	81%
Switzerland	Silvana Tirinzoni	4	5	60	55	34	37	12	7	78%
United States	Nina Roth	4	5	56	65	38	39	7	6	78%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Victoria Moiseeva	2	7	45	76	34	40	8	6	76%
Denmark	Madeleine Dupont	1	8	50	72	32	41	10	6	73%

Results

Team											Record
Canada		5–7	8–9	5–6	8–3	9–8	6–8	6–7	10–8	11–3	4–5
China	7–5		10–7	7–8	7–6	6–7	5–12	4–8	7–2	4–10	4–5
Denmark	9–8	7–10		6–7	5–8	7–8	3–9	3–9	4–6	6–7	1–8
Great Britain	6–5	8–7	7–6		8–6	10–3	4–7	6–8	8–7	4–7	6–3
Japan	3–8	6–7	8–5	6–8		10–5	7–5	5–4	4–8	10–5	5–4
Olympic Athletes from Russia	8–9	7–6	8–7	3–10	5–10		2–11	4–5	2–11	6–7	2–7
South Korea	8–6	12–5	9–3	7–4	5–7	11–2		7–6	7–5	9–6	8–1
Sweden	7–6	8–4	9–3	8–6	4–5	5–4	6–7		8–7	9–6	7–2
Switzerland	8–10	2–7	6–4	7–8	8–4	11–2	5–7	7–8		6–5	4–5
United States	3–11	10–4	7–6	7–4	5–10	7–6	6–9	6–9	5–6		4–5

Playoffs

Semifinals			Gold medal game

1	South Korea	8
4	Japan	7
			1	South Korea	3
			2	Sweden	8
2	Sweden	10
3	Great Britain	5	Bronze medal game

			3	Great Britain	3
			4	Japan	5

Mixed doubles

Round robin

Standings

Final round robin standings

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

Country	Athletes	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
Canada	Kaitlyn Lawes / John Morris	6	1	52	26	28	20	0	9	80%
Switzerland	Jenny Perret / Martin Rios	5	2	45	40	29	26	0	10	71%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Anastasia Bryzgalova / Alexander Krushelnitskiy	4	3	36	44	26	27	1	7	67%
Norway	Kristin Skaslien / Magnus Nedregotten	4	3	39	43	26	25	1	8	74%
China	Wang Rui / Ba Dexin	4	3	47	42	27	27	1	6	72%
South Korea	Jang Hye-ji / Lee Ki-jeong	2	5	40	40	23	29	1	7	67%
United States	Rebecca Hamilton / Matt Hamilton	2	5	37	43	26	25	0	9	74%
Finland	Oona Kauste / Tomi Rantamäki	1	6	35	53	23	29	0	6	67%

Results

Team									Record
Canada		10–4	8–2	6–9	8–2	7–3	7–2	6–4	6–1
China	4–10		10–5	9–3	5–6	8–7	5–7	6–4	4–3
Finland	2–8	5–10		6–7	5–7	4–9	6–7	7–5	1–6
Norway	9–6	3–9	7–6		3–4	8–3	6–5	3–10	4–3
Olympic Athletes from Russia	2–8	6–5	7–5	4–3		6–5	8–9	3–9	4–3
South Korea	3–7	7–8	9–4	3–8	5–6		4–6	9–1	2–5
Switzerland	2–7	7–5	7–6	5–6	9–8	6–4		9–4	5–2
United States	4–6	4–6	5–7	10–3	9–3	1–9	4–9		2–5

Playoffs

Semifinals			Gold medal game

1	Canada	8
4	Norway	4
			1	Canada	10
			2	Switzerland	3
2	Switzerland	7
3	Olympic Athletes from Russia	5	Bronze medal game

			3	Olympic Athletes from Russia (DSQ)	L
			4	Norway	W

Participating nations

A total of 113 athletes from 13 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Some curlers competed in both the 4-person and mixed doubles tournament, therefore the numbers included on this list are the total athletes sent by each NOC to the Olympics, not how many athletes they qualified.

Canada (12)
China (7)
Denmark (10)
Finland (2)
Great Britain (10)
Italy (5)
Japan (10)
Norway (7)
Olympic Athletes from Russia (7)
South Korea (12)
Sweden (10)
Switzerland (11)
United States (10)

References

"Gangneung Curling Centre". pyeongchang2018. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
McKay, Duncan (10 April 2016). "New disciplines added to Pyeongchang 2018 but snowboard parallel slalom cut to accommodate them". Insidethegames. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
"Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). World Curling Federation. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
"Developing Mixed Doubles ahead of Olympic debut". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
"Russian curler stripped of Winter Olympics medal after an anti-doping rule violation". www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.

External links

Official Results Book – Curling

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[1] "Gangneung Curling Centre". pyeongchang2018. PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

[2] McKay, Duncan (10 April 2016). "New disciplines added to Pyeongchang 2018 but snowboard parallel slalom cut to accommodate them". Insidethegames. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

[3] "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). World Curling Federation. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

[4] "Developing Mixed Doubles ahead of Olympic debut". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2016.

[5] "Russian curler stripped of Winter Olympics medal after an anti-doping rule violation". www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.

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