Norway celebrate their quarter-final victory © WCF / Will Palmer
Norway celebrate their quarter-final victory © WCF / Will Palmer

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World Curling Media

20 October 2023

Semi-finals are set at the World Mixed Championship

After 24 sessions of round-robin play at the World Mixed Curling Championship 2023, in Aberdeen, Scotland, 12 teams advanced to the play-offs.

Sweden, Canada, Spain and Norway all completed an undefeated run in their respective round-robin groups, finished on top of their group and qualified directly to the quarter-finals.

Further eight teams played for quarter-final places in qualification games. The winners of those games—Australia, Belgium, Japan and Latvia—completed the quarter-final field.

In Friday evening’s quarter-finals Norway won over Latvia by 8-5, Sweden beat Belgium by 7-2, Spain defeated Japan by 6-4, while Canada overcame Australia by 7-3.

These victories for Norway, Sweden, Spain and Canada mean that they earned a spot in Saturday morning’s semi-finals. Spain will meet Norway, while Sweden will play Canada in the semi-finals 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 provides coverage of all games on The Curling Channel live and as video-on-demand replays. Click here for the streaming information.

Qualification games results: Belgium 6-4 Chinese Taipei; Australia 8-7 United States; Switzerland 3-6 Latvia; Italy 4-5 Japan

Quarter-final results: Latvia 5-8 Norway; Sweden 7-2 Belgium; Japan 4-6 Spain; Australia 3-7 Canada

Final Round-Robin Standings (W-L):

Group A

  1. Sweden 8-0 Q
  2. Japan 6-2 Q
  3. . Belgium 6-2 Q
  4. England 5-3
  5. Ireland 4-4
  6. Scotland 3-5
  7. Israel 2-6
  8. Netherlands 1-7
  9. Wales 1-7

Group B

  1. Canada 8-0 Q
  2. Chinese Taipei 5-3 Q
  3. Australia 4-4 Q
  4. Slovenia 4-4
  5. Poland 4-4
  6. Hungary 4-4
  7. New Zealand 3-5
  8. Lithuania 2-6
  9. Finland 2-6

Group C

  1. Spain 7-0 Q
  2. United States 5-2 Q
  3. Italy 5-2 Q
  4. Germany 4-3
  5. Austria 3-4
  6. India 2-5
  7. Estonia 2-5
  8. Brazil 0-7

Group D

  1. Norway 7-0 Q
  2. Latvia 6-1 Q
  3. Switzerland 5-2 Q
  4. Ukraine 3-4
  5. Slovakia 3-4
  6. Czechia 2-5
  7. Nigeria 1-6
  8. Hong Kong 1-6

Q – qualified for play-offs

All results are available here.

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