Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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]

Curling at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Ice Cube Curling Center, Sochi, Russia
Dates	10–21 February 2014
Competitors	100 from 12 nations

Men's curling at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Canada  Great Britain  Sweden

Women's curling at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Canada  Sweden  Great Britain

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada (CAN)	2	0	0	2
2	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
Totals (3 nations)		2	2	2	6

Medal events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Canada (CAN) Brad Jacobs Ryan Fry E. J. Harnden Ryan Harnden Caleb Flaxey	Great Britain (GBR) David Murdoch Greg Drummond Scott Andrews Michael Goodfellow Tom Brewster	Sweden (SWE) Niklas Edin Sebastian Kraupp Fredrik Lindberg Viktor Kjäll Oskar Eriksson
Women	Canada (CAN) Jennifer Jones Kaitlyn Lawes Jill Officer Dawn McEwen Kirsten Wall	Sweden (SWE) Margaretha Sigfridsson Maria Prytz Christina Bertrup Maria Wennerström Agnes Knochenhauer	Great Britain (GBR) 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.

Canada (10)  China (10)  Denmark (10)  Germany (5)  Great Britain (10)  Japan (5)

Norway (5)  Russia (10)  South Korea (5)  Sweden (10)  Switzerland (10)  United States (10)

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

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
Sweden	Niklas Edin	8	1	60	44	38	30	18	8	86%
Canada	Brad Jacobs	7	2	69	53	39	36	14	7	84%
China	Liu Rui	7	2	67	50	41	37	11	5	85%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	5	4	52	53	36	33	18	5	86%
Great Britain	David Murdoch	5	4	51	49	37	35	15	8	83%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	4	5	54	61	32	37	17	4	81%
Russia	Andrey Drozdov	3	6	58	70	36	38	13	7	77%
Switzerland	Sven Michel	3	6	47	46	31	34	22	7	83%
United States	John Shuster	2	7	47	58	30	39	14	7	80%
Germany	John Jahr	1	8	53	74	38	39	10	9	76%

Results

Team											Record
Canada		9–8	7–6	11–8	7–5	10–4	7–4	6–7	4–5	8–6	7–2
China	8–9		7–4	11–7	6–5	7–5	9–6	5–6	5–4	9–4	7–2
Denmark	6–7	4–7		6–3	6–8	5–3	11–10	8–5	3–9	5–9	4–5
Germany	8–11	7–11	3–6		6–7	5–8	7–8	4–8	8–7	5–8	1–8
Great Britain	5–7	5–6	8–6	7–6		6–7	7–4	4–8	4–2	5–3	5–4
Norway	4–10	5–7	3–5	8–5	7–6		9–8	4–5	5–3	7–4	5–4
Russia	4–7	6–9	10–11	8–7	4–7	8–9		4–8	7–6	7–6	3–6
Sweden	7–6	6–5	5–8	8–4	8–4	5–4	8–4		7–5	6–4	8–1
Switzerland	5–4	4–5	9–3	8–9	2–4	3–5	6–7	5–7		6–3	3–6
United States	6–8	4–9	9–5	8–5	3–5	4–7	6–7	4–6	3–6		2–7

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

Sheet	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Sweden (Edin)	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

Sheet	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)	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

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
Canada	Jennifer Jones	9	0	72	40	43	27	12	14	86%
Sweden	Margaretha Sigfridsson	7	2	58	52	37	35	13	7	80%
Switzerland	Mirjam Ott	5	4	63	60	37	38	13	7	78%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	5	4	74	58	39	35	9	11	80%
Japan	Ayumi Ogasawara	4	5	59	67	39	41	4	10	76%
Denmark	Lene Nielsen	4	5	57	56	34	40	12	9	78%
China	Wang Bingyu	4	5	58	62	36	38	10	4	81%
South Korea	Kim Ji-sun	3	6	60	65	35	37	10	6	79%
Russia	Anna Sidorova	3	6	48	56	33	35	19	6	82%
United States	Erika Brown	1	8	42	75	33	40	8	5	76%

Results

Team											Record
Canada		9–2	8–5	9–6	8–6	5–3	9–4	9–3	8–5	7–6	9–0
China	2–9		6–9	7–8	5–8	7–5	11–3	7–6	6–10	7–4	4–5
Denmark	5–8	9–6		8–7	3–8	4–7	7–4	6–7	6–7	9–2	4–5
Great Britain	6–9	8–7	7–8		12–3	9–6	10–8	4–6	6–8	12–3	5–4
Japan	6–8	8–5	8–3	3–12		8–4	7–12	4–8	9–7	6–8	4–5
Russia	3–5	5–7	7–4	6–9	4–8		4–8	4–5	6–3	9–6	3–6
South Korea	4–9	3–11	4–7	8–10	12–7	8–4		4–7	6–8	11–2	3–6
Sweden	3–9	6–7	7–6	6–4	8–4	5–4	7–4		9–8	7–6	7–2
Switzerland	5–8	10–6	7–6	8–6	7–9	3–6	8–6	8–9		7–4	5–4
United States	6–7	4–7	2–9	3–12	8–6	6–9	2–11	6–7	4–7		1–8

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

Sheet	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)	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

Sheet	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Jones)	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. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
4. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). World Curling Federation. December 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

External links

• Official Results Book – Curling