10 October 2022
World Mixed Curling Championship to begin in Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland will host the first event of the 2022–2023 World Curling season, the World Mixed Curling Championship.
35 teams will play for the world mixed curling champions title from 15–22 October in Curl Aberdeen, a state of the art six-sheet curling facility situated to the west of Aberdeen.
This will be the sixth edition of the championship, the last being held in 2019 at the same venue. Three years ago, Canada was crowned world champions after defeating Germany in the final. Norway earned the bronze medals.
Participating teams
The participating teams are divided into four groups.
Group A: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Korea, New Zealand, Portugal and Slovenia
Group B: Croatia, Spain, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United States and Wales
Group C: Australia, Austria, England, Hungary, Luxemburg, Mexico, Scotland, Switzerland and Slovakia
Group D: Czech Republic, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, Chinese Taipei and Ukraine.
In Norway’s line-up men’s world champion and Olympic silver medallist Christoffer Svae will throw second stones, while 2015’s world mixed champion, Pia Trulsen will play lead stones.
Canada’s skip, Jean-Michel Menard is a world men’s silver medallist from 2006, while their third, Marie-France Larouche is a world junior bronze medallist from 1999.
The Spanish team is skipped by Sergio Vez who lead the team with one change in the line-up to a world mixed silver medal in 2018. Vez also won a world mixed doubles bronze medal in 2014.
Team Denmark is a family of two parents and their two children; father and skip Mikael Qvist, mother and lead Trine Qvist, their daughter and third player Gabriella and their son and second thrower Alexander. Trine is an Olympic women’s silver medallist from the 1998 Games in Nagano, where the Danish national coach was Mikael. This same team competed at the World Mixed Curling Championship 2017 in Champéry, Switzerland.
Portugal is also represented by a family. The lead player, Joe Ribau, is the father of the rest of the team; second player Sabrina, third thrower Chris and skip and fourth Bridget. Sabrina and Bridget are twin sisters.
The German team consists of three siblings, Kim, Joshua and Joy Sutor and is skipped by their close friend, Sixten Totzek. Their coach is Uli Sutor, the father of the three siblings and European men’s gold medallist from 1991.
This will be the first World Curling event appearance for a team representing India.
Playing format and schedule
Each group plays a round-robin. Round-robin play starts on Saturday 15 October and continues until Thursday 20 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 21 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 morning 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.
World Curling TV will provide static camera coverage of all games on the Curling Channel.
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