Canada tops new WCF World Wheelchair Curling Ranking

 

 

Sochi, Russia – Following on from a gold medal success at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2013, Canada has received a further accolade in sport by topping a new World Curling Federation World Wheelchair Curling ranking. Sweden lies in second place and Korea is third.

The ranking is based on exactly the same principles as the WCF ranking for able-bodied men’s and women’s curling.

“Wheelchair Curling has come a long way since the first official world championship took place in 2002,” said World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness, “The performance of the teams at this year’s World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Sochi, Russia, showed just how competitive the game has become. We hope that this new ranking will encourage even more WCF Member Associations to develop the discipline and grow the field of teams participating at the World Championship qualification event.”

In the new ranking, points are assigned to WCF Member Associations according to their team’s final placing at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship, the World Wheelchair Curling Championship qualification event and the Paralympic Winter Games.

Points will only be assigned once per season to WCF Member Associations qualifying out of the qualification event for the world championship and are assigned on a percentage-scaled basis for placement at events covering six curling seasons.

Five seasons back, points count for 20%, four seasons = 30%, three seasons = 40%, two seasons = 60%, one season back counts for 80% and actual season is 100%.

At the World Wheelchair Curling Championship, teams get the following points: 1st: 240 / 2nd: 200 / 3rd 180 until 10th: 70 points. Finishes at the Paralympic Winter Games count for double points: 1st: 480 etc.

The next WCF World Wheelchair Curling Ranking will be released following the Paralympic Winter Games. The games will take place from 7-16 March 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The Paralympic Wheelchair Curling Competition will be staged in the Ice Cube Curling Center, venue for the 2013 World Championship.

There is no World Wheelchair Curling Championship in a Paralympic Winter Games year. The next World Wheelchair Curling Qualification event is scheduled for the autumn of 2014. (Dates and venue/location: to be announced).

 
The full ranking can be seen and downloaded here: http://www.worldcurling.org/wheelchair-curling-ranking

There is an 26 countries who are not shown on the list below based on a 0 points earnings. Interesting enough Bulgaria should have some world ranking points but is listed zero point based on the fact Bulgaria is currently a WCF suspened team. Bulgaria competed a number of times at the World Championships back in 2002 and 2004.

 

WCF WORLD WHEELCHAIR CURLING RANKING 2012-2013 WCF Member Association Points 1 Canada 758 2 Sweden 568 3 Korea 539 4 USA 507 5 Scotland/GBR 446 6 Russia 434 7 China 429 8 Norway 384 9 Italy 296 10 Germany 262 11 Slovakia 252 12 Switzerland 211 13 Finland 176 14 Japan 175 15 Czech Republic 133 16 Denmark 108 17 Latvia 95 18 Poland 45 19 Turkey 30 20 Wales 10 21 England 8 22 Andorra 0 22 Armenia* 0 22 Australia 0