CURLING: World Wheelchair Curling Championship
2013 – Day 2
For immediate release: 17 February 2013
Sochi, Russia – There was only one session of
play at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2013 in Sochi, Russia on
Sunday as problems with the ice cooling plant forced the postponement of the
afternoon games. Play is set to resume again on Monday morning.
In session 3, reigning world champions Russia
took on Canada. It was a very tight game, with the Russians leading 4-3 after 5
ends.
In the sixth end, Canadian skip Jim Armstrong,
managed a draw around a wall of guards to score three and set his team on its
way to an 8-5 win.
Russian third and vice-skip Marat Romanov
admitted after the game that giving up three hit his team mentally and it was
hard for them to recover. He also put the result down to experience. As he
pointed out to the Russian media gathered at the Ice Cube Curling Center, venue
for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, 62 year old Armstrong has
been curling for 45 years. Wheelchair curling only started in Russia a decade
ago.
Speaking about the game, Armstrong said: “The
Russians certainly did put us under a bit of pressure there. They played very
well. We gave them opportunities and fortunately they didn’t convert them all.”
Another tight game was between Scotland and
Sweden which went all the way to the last stone of the eighth end. Swedish Skip
Jalle Jungnell made a perfect double take out to score one and win the game
5-3.
Scottish skip Aileen Neilson, the only female
skip in the field, said afterwards: “It was a really close game and obviously
if we could have replayed that game there were a couple of crucial stones that
could have swung the game the other way. We made Jalle play a tough shot and he
played a great shot with his last. But it is tough for us to be second on that
one.”
The USA secured another win this time against
Norway. The game pivoted in the fourth end. US skip Patrick McDonald put his
last stone right on the button. The pressure was too much for Norwegian skip
Rune Lorentsen who missed with his last stone and the Americans stole four
points. They won the game 10-2.
In the game between Slovakia and Finland,
Radoslav Duris’ Slovak side took five points in the sixth end after Finland’s
fourth player Markku Karjalainen missed a freeze. The Slovaks won 9-3.
Standings after Round Robin Session 3
Rank - Team - Games/Wins-Losses
1. CAN - Canada 3/3-0
2. SWE – Sweden 2/2-0
2. USA – USA 2/2-0
4. NOR – Norway 2/1-1
4. SVK – Slovakia 2/1-1
6. FIN – Finland 3/1-2
6. RUS – Russia 3/1-2
6. SCO – Scotland 3/1-2
9. CHN – China 2/0-2
9. KOR – Korea 2/0-2
The ten teams will play a round robin. Playoff
and semifinals take place on Friday 22nd with the Bronze and Gold
medal games scheduled for 09:30 and 15:30 local time (MSK – Moscow Standard
Time) on Saturday 23rd.
Further qualification points for the 2014
Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia will be awarded at the end of this
year’s world championship. Only ten teams will qualify for the Games. For more
information visit: http://www.worldcurling.org/curling-at-the-paralympics
Results, news and photos from the
World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2013 can be seen here on the event
website: http://wwhcc2013.curlingevents.com
Follow live scores and shot by shot
here: http://wwhcc2013.curlingevents.com/livescores
Live coverage of all games on SHEET
C can be viewed worldwide here: http://russiasport.ru
World
Curling Federation Wheelchair Curling Events Facebook: Go hit ‘like’ to keep
updated: http://www.facebook.com/WorldWheelchairCurlingChampionships
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Notes to Editors
About Wheelchair Curling:
·
Wheelchair
curling is similar in many ways to its able-bodied parent game, except that no
sweeping takes place, and each game consists of eight instead of ten ends.
·
More
information about Wheelchair Curling see: http://www.worldcurling.org/wheelchair-curling
and http://www.worldcurling.org/curling-at-the-paralympics
About
the World Curling Federation:
- The World
Curling Federation (WCF) is the International Sport Federation governing
the Olympic Winter Sport of Curling and the Paralympic Winter Sport of
Wheelchair Curling.
·
The WCF represents curling internationally by facilitating the
co-operation and mutual understanding of a network of 50 member associations
·
The
WCF facilitates the growth of curling, which is carried out through a series of
World Championship competitions and official WCF events, camps and courses and
financial support programmes.
- The WCF
is one of seven International Sports Federations currently part of the
Winter Olympic Programme.
- For more
information visit http://www.worldcurling.org
Media Contacts Onsite:
Joanna Kelly
WCF Media Relations
Mikhail
Zaytsev
Sochi 2014
Press Operations
Media & Communications
World Curling Federation
Email: media@worldcurling.org
Tel: +372 592 442 35
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