Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Curling
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
VenueIce Cube Curling Center, Sochi, Russia
Dates10–21 February 2014
Competitors100 from 12 nations
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Men's curling
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden
Women's curling
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain
Curling at the
2014 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Statistics
Tournament
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The curling competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Ice Cube Curling Center, nicknamed "the Ice Cube".[1] It is the sixth time that curling was on the Olympic program. In both the men's and women's competitions, ten nations competed.[2] These two events took place from 10 to 21 February 2014.[3]

The Canadian women's team went through the whole competition undefeated, the first time this has happened in an Olympic women's curling competition. Additionally, both the Canadian men's and women's teams won the gold medal, becoming the first country to do so in the history of the event.

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada2002
2 Great Britain0112
 Sweden0112
Totals (3 entries)2226

Medal events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
details 		 Canada
Brad Jacobs
Ryan Fry
E. J. Harnden
Ryan Harnden
Caleb Flaxey 		 Great Britain
David Murdoch
Greg Drummond
Scott Andrews
Michael Goodfellow
Tom Brewster 		 Sweden
Niklas Edin
Sebastian Kraupp
Fredrik Lindberg
Viktor Kjäll
Oskar Eriksson
Women
details 		 Canada
Jennifer Jones
Kaitlyn Lawes
Jill Officer
Dawn McEwen
Kirsten Wall 		 Sweden
Margaretha Sigfridsson
Maria Prytz
Christina Bertrup
Maria Wennerström
Agnes Knochenhauer 		 Great Britain
Eve Muirhead
Anna Sloan
Vicki Adams
Claire Hamilton
Lauren Gray

Qualification

Main article: Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – 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 2012 and 2013 World Curling Championships. Teams could also qualify through an Olympic qualification event which was held in the autumn of 2013. Seven nations qualified teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations qualified through the qualification event. As host nation, Russia qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per gender in the curling tournaments.[4]

Participating nations

Twelve nations participated, with the number of athletes participating per nation in parentheses. South Korea made its Olympic curling debut.

Results summary

Men

Main article: Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

Round robin

The men's curling competition began with a round-robin tournament, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

Standings
Final round robin standings
Team
 Skip Pld W L PF PA EW EL BE SE S% Qualification
 Sweden Niklas Edin 9 8 1 60 44 38 30 18 8 86% Playoffs
 Canada Brad Jacobs 9 7 2 69 53 39 36 14 7 84%
 China Liu Rui 9 7 2 67 50 41 37 11 5 85%
 Norway Thomas Ulsrud 9 5 4 52 53 36 33 18 5 86% Tiebreaker
 Great Britain David Murdoch 9 5 4 51 49 37 35 15 8 83%
 Denmark Rasmus Stjerne 9 4 5 54 61 32 37 17 4 81%
 Russia Andrey Drozdov 9 3 6 58 70 36 38 13 7 77%
 Switzerland Sven Michel 9 3 6 47 46 31 34 22 7 83%
 United States John Shuster 9 2 7 47 58 30 39 14 7 80%
 Germany John Jahr 9 1 8 53 74 38 39 10 9 76%
Source: [citation needed]
Results
Team 		CAN CHN DEN GER GBR NOR RUS SWE SUI USA
 Canada — 9–8 7–6 11–8 7–5 10–4 7–4 6–7 4–5 8–6
 China 8–9 — 7–4 11–7 6–5 7–5 9–6 5–6 5–4 9–4
 Denmark 6–7 4–7 — 6–3 6–8 5–3 11–10 8–5 3–9 5–9
 Germany 8–11 7–11 3–6 — 6–7 5–8 7–8 4–8 8–7 5–8
 Great Britain 5–7 5–6 8–6 7–6 — 6–7 7–4 4–8 4–2 5–3
 Norway 4–10 5–7 3–5 8–5 7–6 — 9–8 4–5 5–3 7–4
 Russia 4–7 6–9 10–11 8–7 4–7 8–9 — 4–8 7–6 7–6
 Sweden 7–6 6–5 5–8 8–4 8–4 5–4 8–4 — 7–5 6–4
 Switzerland 5–4 4–5 9–3 8–9 2–4 3–5 6–7 5–7 — 6–3
 United States 6–8 4–9 9–5 8–5 3–5 4–7 6–7 4–6 3–6 —
Source: [citation needed]

Playoffs

The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs. The fourth seed was determined by a tiebreaker game between Norway and Great Britain, which Great Britain won with a score of 6–5.

Semifinals Gold medal game
      
1  Sweden 5
4  Great Britain 6
4  Great Britain 3
2  Canada 9
2  Canada 10
3  China 6 Bronze medal game
1  Sweden 6
3  China 4
Bronze medal game

Friday, 21 February, 12:30 pm

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Sweden (Edin) (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 6
 China (Liu) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 4
Player percentages
 Sweden  China
Viktor Kjäll 94% Zang Jialiang 86%
Fredrik Lindberg 88% Ba Dexin 91%
Sebastian Kraupp 76% Xu Xiaoming 81%
Niklas Edin 94% Liu Rui 86%
Total 88% Total 86%
Gold medal game

Friday, 21 February, 5:30 pm

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Great Britain (Murdoch) 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 X X 3
 Canada (Jacobs) (has hammer) 2 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 X X 9
Player percentages
 Great Britain  Canada
Michael Goodfellow 92% Ryan Harnden 94%
Scott Andrews 67% E. J. Harnden 92%
Greg Drummond 88% Ryan Fry 81%
David Murdoch 69% Brad Jacobs 95%
Total 79% Total 91%

Women

Main article: Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

Round robin

The women's curling competition began with a round-robin tournament, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

Standings
Final round robin standings
Team
 Skip Pld W L PF PA EW EL BE SE S% Qualification
 Canada Jennifer Jones 9 9 0 72 40 43 27 12 14 86% Playoffs
 Sweden Margaretha Sigfridsson 9 7 2 58 52 37 35 13 7 80%
 Switzerland Mirjam Ott 9 5 4 63 60 37 38 13 7 78%
 Great Britain Eve Muirhead 9 5 4 74 58 39 35 9 11 80%
 Japan Ayumi Ogasawara 9 4 5 59 67 39 41 4 10 76%
 Denmark Lene Nielsen 9 4 5 57 56 34 40 12 9 78%
 China Wang Bingyu 9 4 5 58 62 36 38 10 4 81%
 South Korea Kim Ji-sun 9 3 6 60 65 35 37 10 6 79%
 Russia Anna Sidorova 9 3 6 48 56 33 35 19 6 82%
 United States Erika Brown 9 1 8 42 75 33 40 8 5 76%
Source: [citation needed]
Results
Team 		CAN CHN DEN GBR JPN RUS KOR SWE SUI USA
 Canada — 9–2 8–5 9–6 8–6 5–3 9–4 9–3 8–5 7–6
 China 2–9 — 6–9 7–8 5–8 7–5 11–3 7–6 6–10 7–4
 Denmark 5–8 9–6 — 8–7 3–8 4–7 7–4 6–7 6–7 9–2
 Great Britain 6–9 8–7 7–8 — 12–3 9–6 10–8 4–6 6–8 12–3
 Japan 6–8 8–5 8–3 3–12 — 8–4 7–12 4–8 9–7 6–8
 Russia 3–5 5–7 7–4 6–9 4–8 — 4–8 4–5 6–3 9–6
 South Korea 4–9 3–11 4–7 8–10 12–7 8–4 — 4–7 6–8 11–2
 Sweden 3–9 6–7 7–6 6–4 8–4 5–4 7–4 — 9–8 7–6
 Switzerland 5–8 10–6 7–6 8–6 7–9 3–6 8–6 8–9 — 7–4
 United States 6–7 4–7 2–9 3–12 8–6 6–9 2–11 6–7 4–7 —
Source: [citation needed]

Playoffs

The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

Semifinals Gold medal game
      
1  Canada 6
4  Great Britain 4
1  Canada 6
2  Sweden 3
2  Sweden 7
3  Switzerland 5 Bronze medal game
4  Great Britain 6
3  Switzerland 5
Bronze medal game

Thursday, 20 February, 12:30

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Great Britain (Muirhead) 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 6
 Switzerland (Ott) (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 5
Player percentages
 Great Britain  Switzerland
Claire Hamilton 91% Janine Greiner 78%
Vicki Adams 74% Carmen Küng 81%
Anna Sloan 74% Carmen Schäfer 73%
Eve Muirhead 89% Mirjam Ott 85%
Total 82% Total 79%
Gold medal game

Thursday, 20 February, 17:30

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Canada (Jones) (has hammer) 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 X 6
 Sweden (Sigfridsson) 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 X 3
Player percentages
 Canada  Sweden
Dawn McEwen 99% Margaretha Sigfridsson 94%
Jill Officer 76% Maria Wennerström 88%
Kaitlyn Lawes 68% Christina Bertrup 79%
Jennifer Jones 88% Maria Prytz 85%
Total 82% Total 86%

References

  1. ^ "Venue details at host site". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on November 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Championship Overview". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  3. ^ "Curling Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 15 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). World Curling Federation. December 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2014.