CURLING: Olympic & Paralympic Playing Schedules
released at World Congress
For immediate release: 2 September 2013
Copenhagen, Denmark – The World Curling Federation (WCF) and the Sochi 2014 organising committee have released the schedules of play for the curling competition at the Olympic Winter Games and wheelchair curling competition at the Paralympic Winter Games.
The schedules can be viewed on the WCF official website
for the games in Sochi. http://sochi2014.curlingevents.com
and the Sochi 2014 event website: www.sochi2014.com
Paralympic Wheelchair Curling Schedule: http://sochi2014.curlingevents.com/pwg-2014-schedule-of-play
Ten men’s and ten women’s teams will compete in the
Olympic curling competition which will run from 10-21 February 2014 in the Ice
Cube Curling Centre in Sochi, Russia.
Eight of the ten teams are already known, following their
performance in the 2012 & 2013 World Curling Championships. Women: Russia
as host, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.
Men: Russia as host, Canada, China, Denmark, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and
Switzerland.
The remaining two teams for the both the men’s and
women’s events will qualify out of the WCF’s inaugural Olympic Qualification
Event which will take place from 10-15 December 2013 in Fuessen, Germany. http://sochi2014.curlingevents.com/oqe
Ten mixed teams will compete in the Paralympic wheelchair
curling competition which will be staged at the same venue from 8-15 March
2014. The teams are: Russia as host, Canada, China, Great Britain, Finland,
Korea, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden and USA.
During the World Curling Congress the WCF’s newly formed
Athlete Commission and Competitions & Rules Commission met for the first
time.
At the Federation’s Annual General Assembly on Monday,
members approved a new constitutional structure for the WCF which will see the
Executive Board reformed to include a president, three zonal vice-presidents
(from the WCF’s Americas, European and Pacific-Asia zones) and four directors.
Federation members also voted to accept three new
provisional Member Associations: Israel, Georgia and Ukraine (1).
Bulgaria was re-instated as a member, with the WCF now
recognising the Bulgarian Curling Federation. Armenia remains suspended.
The 3rd Annual World Curling Congress will take place at
the Peppermill Resort, Reno, Nevada, USA from 4-8 September 2014. The 2014 WCF
Annual General Assembly will be on the 7 September.
(1) Israel
was previously a member of the WCF (1999-2008). Ukraine was a member from 2003
to 2007.
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