Jiang Dongxu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jiang.
Jiang Dongxu
姜东旭
Curler
Born (1993-03-03) March 3, 1993 (age 31)
Harbin, China
Team
Curling clubHarbin CC,
Harbin, CHN
Curling career
Member Association China
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		1 (2018)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2022)
Medal record
Men's Curling
Representing  China
Pacific-Asia Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gangneung

Jiang Dongxu (Chinese: 姜东旭; pinyin: Jiāng Dōngxù; born March 3, 1993) is a Chinese curler from Harbin.[1] He represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics as the alternate on the Chinese men's team skipped by Ma Xiuyue. He also won a silver medal at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships.

Career

Jiang represented China twice at the World Junior Curling Championships in 2012 and 2013. His team finished 4–5 at the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships and 1–8 at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships. Also during his junior career, Jiang won the 2012 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships playing second for Ma Xiuyue.[2]

Jiang's most successful season came during the 2017–18 season when he played second for Team Liu Riu. The team won two tour events, the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic and the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau.[3] They also played in three Grand Slam of Curling events, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 2. At the Olympic Qualification Event, the team was unable to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics, posting a 4–3 record.[4]

As alternate for the Zou Qiang rink, Jiang represented China at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. There, the Chinese rink posted an 8–0 round robin record and won their semifinal 9–6 over South Korea's Kim Soo-hyuk. In the final, the team came up short, losing to Japan's Yuta Matsumura 9–7.[5] The following month, Team Zou posted a 3–3 record at the second leg of the Curling World Cup event.

After taking a few seasons off, Jiang was selected to be the alternate on the Chinese men's team for the 2022 Winter Olympics, held in Beijing.[6] The team also included skip Ma Xiuyue, Zou Qiang, Wang Zhiyu and Xu Jingtao. Despite not playing a single international competition before the Games, the team fared quite well, finishing the round robin with a 4–5 record. This included defeating higher-seeded teams such as Switzerland's Peter de Cruz, Norway's Steffen Walstad, and Italy's Joël Retornaz.[7] Ultimately, they finished in a four-way tie for fifth place; however, their head to head wins over Switzerland and Norway placed them alone in fifth place at the end of the competition.[8]

Teams

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
2011–12[9] Ma Xiuyue Xiao Shicheng Jiang Dongxu Shao Zhilin Zhang Zhongbao
2012–13 Zhang Zhongbao Jiang Dongxu Xu Jingtao Wang Jinbo Zhang Rongrui
2012–13 Wang Fengchun Jiang Dongxu Chen Han Wang Zhiqiang
2016–17 Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Jiang Dongxu Zang Jialiang
2017–18 Liu Rui Xu Xiamoing Jiang Dongxu Zang Jialiang
2018–19 Ma Xiuyue Jiang Dongxu Ling Zhi Wang Jingyuan
2021–22 Ma Xiuyue Zou Qiang Wang Zhiyu Xu Jingtao Jiang Dongxu

References

  1. ^ "Dongxu Jiang Profile". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  2. ^ "Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships 2012". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  3. ^ "2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  4. ^ "2017 Olympic Qualification Event – Teams". Suburban Schoolmasters Curling League. December 4, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  5. ^ Tom Rowland (November 10, 2018). "Japan win Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018 men's title". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  6. ^ "Spotlight turns to team curling at the Olympic Winter Games". World Curling Federation. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  7. ^ "Great Britain in good form after win over ROC". World Curling Federation. February 16, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  8. ^ "XXIV. Olympic Winter Games 2022". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  9. ^ "Jiang Dongxu Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved January 25, 2022.