2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship

2023 World Wheelchair Curling
Championship
Host cityRichmond, British Columbia, Canada
ArenaRichmond Curling Centre
DatesMarch 4–12
Winner China
SkipWang Haitao
ThirdZhang Shuaiyu
SecondYang Jinqiao
LeadLi Nana
AlternateZhang Mingliang
CoachLi Jianrui, Yue Qingshuang
Finalist Canada (Ideson)
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The 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from March 4 to 12 at the Richmond Curling Centre in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.[1] The event was held in conjunction with the 2023 World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Qualification

The following nations qualified to participate in the 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship:[2]

Event Vacancies Qualified
Host nation 1  Canada
2021 World Wheelchair Curling Championship 7  China
 Sweden
 United States
 Scotland
 Norway
 Latvia
 South Korea
2022 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship 3[3]  Czech Republic
 Denmark
 Germany
 Japan
Emergency Ruling Replacement 1[4]  Italy
TOTAL 12

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:[5]

 Canada  China  Czech Republic  Denmark

Fourth: Jon Thurston
Third: Ina Forrest
Second: Gil Dash
Skip: Mark Ideson
Alternate: Marie Wright

Skip: Wang Haitao
Third: Zhang Shuaiyu
Second: Yang Jinqiao
Lead: Li Nana
Alternate: Zhang Mingliang

Skip: Dana Selnekovičová
Third: Martin Tluk
Second: Milan Bartůněk
Lead: Radek Musílek

Skip: Kenneth Ørbæk
Third: Michaell Jensen
Second: Niels Nielsen
Lead: Sussie Nielsen

 Italy  Japan  Latvia  Norway

Skip: Egidio Marchese
Third: Fabrizio Bich
Second: Sergio de Florian
Lead: Orietta Berto
Alternate: Angela Menardi

Skip: Takashi Sakataya
Third: Kazuhiro Kashiwabara
Second: Hiromi Takahashi
Lead: Kana Matsuda
Alternate: Yoku Akazawa

Fourth: Sergejs Djačenko
Third: Agris Lasmans
Skip: Ojārs Briedis
Lead: Ieva Melle
Alternate: Linda Meijere

Skip: Jostein Stordahl
Third: Ole Fredrik Syversen
Second: Geir Arne Skogstad
Lead: Mia Larsen Sveberg
Alternate: Ingrid Djupskaas

 Scotland  South Korea  Sweden  United States

Fourth: Gregor Ewan
Skip: Hugh Nibloe
Second: Gary Logan
Lead: Joanna Butterfield
Alternate: Meggan Dawson-Farrell

Skip: Lee Hyeon-chul
Third: Yang Hui-tae
Second: Jang Jae-hyuk
Lead: Cho Eun-geon
Alternate: Min Yeong-nam

Skip: Viljo Petersson-Dahl
Third: Ronny Persson
Second: Sabina Johansson
Lead: Johanna Glennert
Alternate: Aasa Lie

Fourth: Matthew Thums
Skip: Stephen Emt
Second: Shawn Sadowski
Lead: Laura Dwyer
Alternate: Batoyun Uranchimeg

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings[6]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams relegated to 2024 B Championship
Country Skip W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE DSC
 China Wang Haitao 10 1 75 28 43 25 6 18 105.20
 Canada Mark Ideson 9 2 79 43 43 31 1 19 97.25
 South Korea Lee Hyeon-chul 8 3 72 47 42 37 3 15 98.78
 United States Stephen Emt 7 4 64 60 38 39 2 14 121.25
 Sweden Viljo Petersson-Dahl 6 5 65 62 34 38 2 12 127.17
 Scotland Hugh Nibloe 5 6 2–0 57 60 39 38 1 17 141.94
 Norway Jostein Stordahl 5 6 1–1 63 63 40 36 4 16 105.74
 Czech Republic Dana Selnekovičová 5 6 0–2 61 67 40 38 1 11 141.99
 Latvia Ojārs Briedis 4 7 50 73 37 43 0 13 160.00
 Italy Egidio Marchese 3 8 71 85 39 41 2 16 164.13
 Denmark Kenneth Ørbæk 2 9 1–0 47 90 30 46 1 9 119.66
 Japan Takashi Sakataya 2 9 0–1 51 77 33 46 3 9 124.23
Round Robin Summary Table
Pos. Country Record
2  Canada 4–8 8–2 7–3 6–4 7–4 7–6 10–3 8–1 3–7 13–1 6–4 9–2
1  China 8–4 7–2 11–2 6–2 7–2 4–3 5–1 9–2 4–7 8–2 6–1 10–1
8  Czech Republic 2–8 2–7 11–6 10–6 3–7 5–2 5–9 3–9 6–3 4–7 10–3 5–6
11  Denmark 3–7 2–11 6–11 2–7 10–5 6–7 1–9 L–W 1–13 8–7 4–7 2–9
10  Italy 4–6 2–6 6–10 7–2 9–10 4–8 15–4 9–6 4–10 3–12 8–11 3–8
12  Japan 4–7 2–7 7–3 5–10 10–9 7–8 2–7 2–6 4–6 4–7 4–7 2–9
9  Latvia 6–7 3–4 2–5 7–6 8–4 8–7 2–11 6–3 4–6 1–13 3–7 4–7
7  Norway 3–10 1–5 9–5 9–1 4–15 7–2 11–2 5–6 6–7 1–5 7–5 5–6
6  Scotland 1–8 2–9 9–3 W–L 6–9 6–2 3–6 6–5 4–6 10–1 4–7 5–6
3  South Korea 7–3 7–4 3–6 13–1 10–4 6–4 6–4 7–6 6–4 3–6 4–5 8–3
5  Sweden 1–13 2–8 7–4 7–8 12–3 7–4 13–1 5–1 1–10 6–3 4–7 6–5
4  United States 4–6 1–6 3–10 7–4 11–8 7–4 7–3 5–7 7–4 5–4 7–4 7–4

Round robin results

All draws times are listed in Pacific Time (UTC−08:00).[7]

Draw 1

Saturday, March 4, 12:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 7
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 8
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 7
 United States (Emt) 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 5
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Canada (Ideson) 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 4
 China (Wang) 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 4 8
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 6
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Sakataya) 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 X 7
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 X 3
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Latvia (Briedis) 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 8
 Italy (Marchese) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4

Draw 2

Saturday, March 4, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 7
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Italy (Marchese) 0 0 5 0 2 0 1 1 0 9
 Japan (Sakataya) 2 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 1 10
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1
 Norway (Stordahl) 2 0 2 1 3 1 X X 9
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 1 0 2 0 0 4 X 8
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 2
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 6
 Latvia (Briedis) 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 4
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 3 0 1 3 1 0 X X 8
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 0 0 1 X X 2

Draw 3

Sunday, March 5, 12:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
 China (Wang) 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 3 2 1 3 1 X X 10
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 1 0 0 0 0 0 X X 1
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 X 6
 South Korea (Lee) 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 3
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Marchese) 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 X 7
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 4
 Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 X 7
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 2

Draw 4

Sunday, March 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 1 0 0 4 0 2 3 X 10
 Italy (Marchese) 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 X 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 2
 China (Wang) 1 1 1 1 0 3 0 X 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Sakataya) 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 X 4
 United States (Emt) 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 X 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 7
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 X 5
 Norway (Stordahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 / L^
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 W

^ Denmark ran out of time, and therefore forfeited the match.[8]

Draw 5

Monday, March 6, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 X 7
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 X 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 0 4 1 4 1 3 X X 13
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 0 0 X X 1
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 X 3
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 X 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 5
 Norway (Stordahl) 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 4 9
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Marchese) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 X 2
 China (Wang) 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 X 6
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 4
 United States (Emt) 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 7

Draw 6

Monday, March 6, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 3 0 4 1 X 9
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 3 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 11
 Italy (Marchese) 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 8
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3
 Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 2 0 3 3 X 10
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 X 7
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 X 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 7
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 6
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 4
 South Korea (Lee) 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 7

Draw 7

Tuesday, March 7, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 4 0 4 0 2 1 X X 11
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 0 1 0 0 X X 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
 Scotland (Nibloe) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 1 0 X X 2
 China (Wang) 0 4 3 2 0 2 X X 11
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 5 1 0 0 2 2 X X 10
 United States (Emt) 0 0 2 1 0 0 X X 3
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Marchese) 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 X 4
 Canada (Ideson) 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 X 6

Draw 8

Tuesday, March 7, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 1 0 2 1 1 X X 6
 United States (Emt) 0 0 1 0 0 0 X X 1
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 3 1 4 3 2 0 X X 13
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 0 0 0 1 X X 1
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Marchese) 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 6
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 2 2 0 4 0 1 1 10
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1
 Canada (Ideson) 1 2 3 0 1 1 X X 8
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 6
 South Korea (Lee) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 7
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 X 5
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 4 0 0 2 2 0 2 X 10

Draw 9

Wednesday, March 8, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Marchese) 0 0 2 0 1 0 X X 3
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 4 3 0 2 0 3 X X 12
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 X 3
 South Korea (Lee) 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 X 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 X 7
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 X 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 X 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 X 7
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 2
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 6
 Norway (Stordahl) 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 5

Draw 10

Wednesday, March 8, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 4
 South Korea (Lee) 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 X 6
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 3 3 0 0 1 0 4 X 11
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 3 0 0 1 0 0 5 X 9
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 X 2
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Stordahl) 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4
 Italy (Marchese) 0 1 2 2 0 3 7 X 15
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 2 3 2 1 0 5 X X 13
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 X 7
 Latvia (Briedis) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 3

Draw 11

Thursday, March 9, 1:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3
 Canada (Ideson) 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 X 5
 Norway (Stordahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 1 8
 Japan (Sakataya) 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 5
 South Korea (Lee) 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 6
 Italy (Marchese) 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 9
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 7

Playoffs

Qualification games Semifinals Final
1  China 5
4  United States 3 5  Sweden 2
5  Sweden 11 1  China 5
2  Canada 2
2  Canada 5
3  South Korea 2 6  Scotland 2
6  Scotland 6 Bronze medal game
5  Sweden 4
6  Scotland 7

Qualification Games

Friday, March 10, 1:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Lee) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 2
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 X 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Emt) 0 0 0 2 0 1 X X 3
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 5 1 1 0 4 0 X X 11

Semifinals

Saturday, March 11, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 5
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 X 5
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2

Bronze medal game

Sunday, March 12, 10:00 am

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 X 4
 Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 3 1 0 1 2 X 7

Final

Sunday, March 12, 10:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 5
 Canada (Ideson) 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2

Final standings

Key
Teams relegated to 2024 B Championship
Place Team
 China
 Canada
 Scotland
4  Sweden
5  South Korea
6  United States
7  Norway
8  Czech Republic
9  Latvia
10  Italy
11  Denmark
12  Japan

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  2. ^ "Two World Wheelchair Championships begin Saturday in Richmond, Canada". World Curling Federation. February 28, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  3. ^ "Czech Republic, Denmark and Germany qualify for World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023". World Curling Federation. November 10, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Belarus and Russia event exclusion extended". World Curling Federation. December 19, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  5. ^ "Teams". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  6. ^ "Standings". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  7. ^ "Schedule". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  8. ^ "Game Results – Denmark vs Scotland" (PDF). World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.