Curling in Russia - Paralympic Winter Curling Games 2010. Vancouver, Canada

From 12 to 21 of march 2010 in Vancouver, Canada will take place Winter Paralympic Curling Games 2010!

Having made a successful debut in Turin four years ago, wheelchair curling is now set to be one of the major attractions of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

The 10th edition of the games gets underway on Friday 12th March, with the round-robin curling action starting on Saturday 13th March and the medal games being staged on Saturday March 20th.

Ten teams have qualified for the Paralympic Winter Game competition through their performances at previous three world championships, including all three medal-winning nations from the Turin Games.

- Day by Day - Teams -

Final Standings after Round Robin

Day by Day:

Day 1:
12-13.03.2010
23:30 (here and after Moscow time)
The home team didn't disappoint in the opening round of action at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games Saturday afternoon.
Canada's defending Paralympic champions, led by Jim Armstrong, put on an impressive show en route to a 9-2 win over Great Britain's Michael McCreadie rink in front of 2,459 fans at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.

Also posting wins in draw one were USA's Augusto Perez, Switzerland's Manfred Bolliger and Germany's Jens Jaeger.

A

Korea -

USA 6-9
B

Great Britain -

Canada 2-9
C

Sweden -

Switzerland 6-7
D

Germany -

Norway 10-6

05:00
Yoji Nakajima led his Japanese team to a 9-6 win over Italy in the country's debut at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in round robin action Saturday night at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.
Canada's Jim Armstrong rink dominated Augusto Perez and Team USA for a 10-5 win to keep its perfect record intact. Armstrong's Canadians capitalized on key opportunities to steal multiple ends and build a lead that proved insurmountable for the Americans.
Norway's Rune Lorentsen rink rebounded from a tough loss in the first draw to defeat Michael McCreadie's Great Britain squad, 7-5. Norway, winner of two previous world wheelchair titles, fell behind early but too command in the third end and scored a key deuce in the final frame to earn the win.

A

Italy -

Japan 6-9
B

Sweden -

Korea 4-8
C

Norway -

Great Britain 7-5
D

Canada -

USA 10-5

Day 2:
13-14.03.2010
23:30
Italy's Andrea Tabanelli dominated day two at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games as the round robin continued at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.
Canada's Jim Armstrong escaped with a 6-5 win over Norway's Rune Lorentsen rink earlier today and was idle tonight to remain undefeated at 3-0.

Right behind Canada and Italy are Korea's Haksung Kim and USA's Augusto Perez at 2-1 after picking up wins in the afternoon draw. Kim's team from Korea defeated Japan, 7-5, while Perez and the Americans earned a 6-5 win over Germany when Jens Jaeger missed a takeout with the final stone. Germany bounced back with a 12-4 win against Japan, who finished the day 0-2.

A

Norway -

Canada 5-6
B

Italy -

Switzerland 13-4
C

USA -

Germany 6-5
D

Japan -

Korea 5-7

05:00
A

Sweden -

Italy 1-9
B

Japan -

Germany 4-12
C

Switzerland -

Great Britain 2-10
D X

Day 3:
14-15.03.2010
23:30
Sweden's Jalle Jungnell played spoiler to Canada's perfect record Monday night at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games as the round robin continued at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.

Sweden improved its record to 2-3 with the 8-4 win over Jim Armstrong's crew. The Americans, led by Augusto Perez, won two games today to put themselves in a tie for first place with Canada at 4-1.

The standings after that are quite tight with Sweden winning two games today to improve to 2-3 and Switzerland's Manfred Bolliger picking up a second win with a 9-3 victory over Germany's Jens Jaeger.

Korea's Haksung Kim rink split the day with a win in the morning over Great Britain but then lost to Norway's Rune Lorentsen to remain in third place.

A

Great Britain -

Korea 4-7
B

Norway -

Sweden 4-6
C

Japan -

Canada 2-13
D

USA -

Italy 8-2

05:00
A

Germany -

Switzerland 3-9
B

Great Britain -

USA 7-8
C

Korea -

Norway 6-9
D

Sweden -

Canada 8-4

Day 4:
15-16.03.2010
23:30
Norway's Rune Lorentsen rink won its second straight match to improve to 3-3 overall. The two-time world wheelchair champions got past Japan's Yoji Nakajima, 11-3, this afternoon to keep their playoff hopes alive. Norway and Germany's Jens Jaeger rink both boast 3-3 records for fourth place. The Germans earned a 7-6 win over Italy earlier today but faltered in the night game to Great Britain's Michael McCreadie rink to fall to 3-3.

A

Canada -

Switzerland 15-1
B

Italy -

Germany 6-7
C

Norway -

Japan 11-3
D

USA -

Sweden 4-6

05:00
Kim's team got the better of Italy's Andrea Tabanelli rink, 9-3, which lost its third straight match. With the Americans losing tonight to Sweden, 6-4, Korea is now tied with the U.S. at 4-2 behind front-runner Canada, which picked up a fifth win today in a lopsided match with Switzerland, 15-1.

Japan's Yoji Nakajima rink picked up its second win of the tournament, stealing a point tonight in the extra end to defeat Switzerland.
A

Korea -

Italy 9-3
B

Switzerland -

Japan 5-6
C

Great Britain -

Germany 9-2
D X

Day 5:
16-17.03.2010
23:30
A

Canada -

Germany 8-6
B

Sweden -

Great Britain 7-6
C

Norway -

USA 8-9
D

Korea -

Switzerland 9-3

05:00
Canada's Jim Armstrong and USA's Augusto Perez clinched the first two semifinal berths today in action at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
Armstrong's Canadian team clinched during the afternoon session and picked up two more wins today to remain in first place with a 7-1 record. Perez and the Americans also won twice v 9-8 against Norway and 8-3 over Japan that featured a six-ender v to run their record to 6-2 and earn the second semifinal berth. The final two semifinal berths will be determined at the conclusion of the round robin tomorrow barring a need for tiebreaker games.
Korea's Haksung Kim rink battled Canada tonight before falling, 6-4, to drop to 5-3 in the standings for third place but should be in good position to earn a playoff spot. Right behind Korea is the steadily-improving Swedish rink led by Jalle Jungnell rink at 4-3.

Italy's Andrea Tabanelli and Germany's Jens Jaeger rink are still in the playoff hunt with 3-4 records and two games remaining in the round robin.

A

Italy -

Norway 9-7
B

USA -

Japan 8-3
C

Canada -

Korea 6-4
D X

Day 6:
17-18.03.2010
23:30
Canada, USA and Korea advance to the semi-finals. Italy defeats Canada to earn a tie-breaker game against Sweden.
A

Switzerland -

USA 2-8
Augusto Perez and Team USA will go into Saturday's semifinals riding a three-game win streak after taking down Switzerland this afternoon at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
B

Germany -

Korea 2-9
C

Great Britain -

Italy 3-6
D

Japan -

Sweden 8-7

05:00
Italy shocked the host country Canada this evening by a score of 8-7. Canada looked to have taken control of a close game when they stole 2 points in the 5th end to take the lead until skip Andrea Tabanelli of Italy answered with 4 points in the 6th end. Canada tied the score going into the last end and things were looking good for before Tabanelli got a great take out with his last rock through a port as wide as a beaver to become shot rock and win the game.
A

Japan -

Great Britain 4-10
B

Switzerland -

Norway 10-4
C

Germany -

Sweden 3-10
D

Italy -

Canada 8-7

Final Standings after Round Robin

Day 7:
18-19.03.2010
01:30. Tie-break
The winner will play Canada in the semi-final game.
B

Italy -

Sweden 5-6

Day 8:
19-20.03.2010
21:00. Semifinals
B

Canada -

Sweden 5-10
C

USA -

Korea 5-7

02:30. Bronze Medal Game
B

Sweden -

USA 7-5
Augusto Perez and Team USA couldn't put a bronze glow on their finish at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games as Sweden knocked the Americans off the medal stand with a 7-5 defeat in the bronze medal game tonight. Canada repeated as champion.

Much like many of the other U.S. games this week, the bronze-medal match had a dramatic finish but this time it wasn't for a win for the Americans. Needing to steal a single to force an extra end, USA's Kapinowski got her second stone buried in the four foot and the U.S. protected it until Jungnell made a tap-back of one of his stones in the top of the rings to push it about a quarter of an inch closer to the button than the U.S. stone. The U.S. debated for about four minutes as to whether to try a tough raise that really wouldn't produce much or to draw around the guards and hope the stone would curl enough to make the difference. The end result was the raise attempt that didn't change the outcome. Jungnell opted not to throw his last stone, confident that the measurement would be in his favor.

"We did consider the draw but we didn't think we could bend it enough to count. We thought the rock would hang out too far. We had the right idea with our last shot but it was a tough raise," Perez said. "That was a crappy shot."

02:30. Gold Medal Game
C

Canada -

Korea 8-7
Canada's Jim Armstrong rink held off a late rally from Korea's Haksung Kim to earn the gold in front of just under 5,000 cheering fans. The gold-medal game concluded about 10 seconds after the measurement in the bronze-medal game was determined.

A draw for four by Armstrong in the fourth end and it looked like it was lights-out time for Korea. But the resilient crew battled back and scored a deuce in the fifth end. Korea got two stones molded onto the button in the sixth end that would last throughout the end as Armstrong was unable to remove them with an up-weight takeout as Korea inched closer. Korea would steal one more after getting two stones in the house and Armstrong could only chip one out. Korea tried in earnest to extend the game but Armstrong clinched the gold medal with takeout.

"It's tremendous and it's overwhelming," Armstrong said. "This game really showed that the best part of Wheelchair Curling is that no lead is safe."

"It wasn't that we were playing bad in the second half. They [Korea] were just making their shots and started whittling away at the lead," Armstrong said.

Teams:

- Great Britain
Team line-up: Michael McCreadie (Skip), Aileen Neilson, Tom Killin, Angie Malone, Jim Sellar
Coach: Tom Pendreigh

- Germany
Team line-up: Jens Jager (Skip), Marcus Sieger, Jens Gabel, Christiane Steger, Astrid Hoer
Coach: Helmar Erlewein

- Italy
Team line-up: Andrea Tabanelli (Skip), Egidio Marchese, Gabriele Dallapiccola, Angela Menardi, Emanuele Spelorzi
Coach: Mauro Maino

- Canada
Team line-up: Jim Armstrong (Skip), Darryl Neighbour, Ina Forrest, Sonja Gaudet, Bruno Yizek
Coach: Joe Rea, Wendy Morgan

- Korea
Team line-up: Haksung Kim (Skip), Myungjin Kim, Yanghyun Cho, Misuk Kang, Gilwoo Park
Coach: Seyoung Yang

- Norway
Team line-up: Rune Lorentsen (Skip), Jostein Stordahl, Geir Arne Skogstad, Lene Tystad, Anne Mette Samdal
Coach: Per Christensen

- USA
Team line-up: Augusto Perez (Skip), Jim Pierce, James Joseph, Jacqueline Kapinowski, Patrick McDonald
Coach: Steve Brown

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Manfred Bolliger (Skip), Claudia Huttenmoser, Daniel Meyer, Anton Kehrli, Martin Bieri
Coach: Nadia Rothlisberger

- Sweden
Team line-up: Jarl Jungnell (Skip), Glenn Ikonen, Patrik Burman, Anette Wilhelm, Patrik Kallin
Coach: Tomas Nordin

- Japan
Team line-up: Yoji Nakajima (Skip), Katsuo Ichikawa, Takashi Hidai, Ayako Saitoh, Aki Ogawa
Coach: Katsuji Uchibori

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