Curling in Russia - World Junior Curling Championships 2010. Flims, Switzerland

The 2010 World Junior Curling Championships will be held in Flims, Switzerland, March 6-14

After seven years, we are ready again to host the World Junior Curling Championships: Welcome to all athletes and their entourage, to the federation-representatives, guests of honour and visitors to Flims, Switzerland!

Twenty top level junior curling teams from around the world are set to gather at the Waldhaus Arena in Flims, Switzerland this week to compete in the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships.

Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States will be represented in the junior men’s championship.

Teams from Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States will compete in the junior women’s event.

Among the junior men’s competitors, Denmark returns to defend their 2009 gold medal title, with Mikkel Krause taking over as skip from Rasmus Stjerne who moves on from being eligible to play at junior level.

Norway will be looking to better a 5th place finish in 2009 with Steffen Mellemseter skipping this year. Artem Bolduzev, who played second for Russia last year, moves up to skip as does Ally Fraser, who played third for Scotland in 2009.

The junior women’s line up includes several athletes coming to Flims straight from the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver: Russian skip Anna Sidorova and team mates Ekaterina Galkina and Margarita Fomina, German skip Corinna Scholz and China’s Jinli Liu.

Other teams returning for another shot at the junior women’s championship title include: Alexandra Carlson and her team from the United States, Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg and Anna Kubeљkova from the Czech Republic – who finished 5th, 6th and 7th respectively - in last year’s junior event in Vancouver.

- Ladie's: Day by Day / Teams - Men's: Day by Day / Teams -

Russian Junior Women's Curling Team 2010:
- Anna Sidorova (skip)
- Margarita Fomina
- Ekaterina Galkina
- Galina Arsen'kina
- Ekaterina Antonova (alternate)
Coach: Olga Andrianova

Ladie's. Day by Day:

Final Standings of World Women's Junior Curling Championship 2010

06.03.2008 (Saturday)
Day 1:
Ladie's, 09:00
A

Canada -

China 12-3
B

Czech Rep. -

Scotland 9-8
C Russia - France 8-3

USA -

Sweden 4-10
E

Switzerland -

Germany 8-7

Ladie's, 19:00
A

Switzerland -

Scotland 9-3
B

Germany -

France 10-6
C

Canada -

USA 8-5
D Russia - China 5-7

Czech Rep. -

Sweden 5-6

07.03.2008 (Sunday)
Day 2:
Ladie's, 14:00
A

Sweden -

Germany 6-3
B

USA -

China 7-5
C

Czech Rep. -

Switzerland 2-9
D

France -

Canada 2-12
E Russia - Scotland 6-4

08.03.2008 (Monday)
Day 3:
Ladie's, 09:00
Six of the ten competing junior men-s teams are tied up on three wins and one loss after the fourth draw of the junior men-s round robin at the World Championships in Flims.
A

China -

Czech Rep. 7-6
B Canada - Russia 8-7

Scotland -

Germany 1-4
D

Sweden -

Switzerland 8-5
E

USA -

France 8-5

Ladie's, 19:00
A Russia - Switzerland 6-7 (EE)

France -

Czech Rep. 8-3
C

Sweden -

China 5-1
D

Scotland -

USA 6-7
E

Germany -

Canada 3-6

09.03.2008 (Tuesday)
Day 4:
A

Germany -

USA 3-11
B

Sweden -

Canada 4-6
C

France -

Scotland 3-8
D Czech Rep. - Russia 3-9

China -

Switzerland 4-8

10.03.2008 (Wednesday)
Day 5:
Ladie's, 09:00
A China - Russia 4-2

Finland -

Sweden 6-7
C

Scotland -

USA 8-3
D

Canada -

Switzerland 7-9
E

Norway -

Denmark 7-5

Ladie's, 19:00
A

France -

Sweden 4-11
B

Switzerland -

USA 7-8 (EE)
C Germany - Russia 4-6

China -

Scotland 2-8
E

Canada -

Czech Rep. 9-3

11.03.2008 (Thursday)
Day 6:
Ladie's, 12:30
Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA junior women-s teams are through to the playoffs of the World Junior Curling Championships set for Friday evening.
A

USA -

Russia 6-5

In an eventful final round robin draw, Russian Skip Anna Sidorova came up short with her last draw and handed the USA a steal of one and the point they needed to win the game 6-5 and a place in the playoffs.
B

Scotland -

Sweden 2-6
Sweden ran the Scots out of stones in the tenth end to win 6-2. Although Scotland finishes up at the bottom of the standings, as host nation of the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships, the Scots have a guaranteed place for their junior men's and women-s teams.
C

Switzerland -

Canada 8-6
Switzerland and Canada had a tight game. But the Swiss managed to break the Canadian's unbeaten run. At the end of the ninth end Manuela Siegrist's Swiss side led by 7-6. But Rachel Homan's last stone narrowly wrecked on a guard and the Swiss stole a point to win 8-6.
D

Germany -

Czech Rep. 8-10
The game between Germany and the Czech Republic was close. They were tied 8-8 at the end of the ninth end. German fourth Martina Linder left her final shot in the open for Czech skip Anna Kubeskova to make a simple takeout to win 10-8. The win secured the Czech Republic a spot at next year-s World Juniors. Germany will have to play the European Junior Curling Challenge to have a chance of making it to the 2011 Championships.
E

France -

China 6-5
The French team's 6-5 win against China meant that France also qualifies for the next world junior event.

Final Standings after Round Robin

12.03.2008 (Friday)
Day 7:
Ladie's. Page Play-Off. 1v2, 19:00
B

Canada -

Sweden 9-3

Canada is straight through to the junior women-s final at the World Junior Curling Championships after beating Sweden 9-3 in the 1v2 playoff game.

After only three ends Rachel Homan-s team was 7-0 up. Swedish Skip Anna Hasselborg handed the Canadians a steal of four in third end when her draw went through the house. The Swedes were never able to make up for the loss.
Ladie's. Page Play-Off. 3v4, 19:00
C

Switzerland -

USA 4-6

The 3v4 playoff was a tighter game with the United States and Switzerland neck and neck on 4-4 by the end of the eighth end. Alexandra Carlson took two points in the ninth and although Swiss Skip Manuela Siegrist had the last stone in the tenth end she opted to concede rather than play the last stone with the USA lying three in the house. The final score was 6-4 and the USA now meets Sweden in the semi-final on Saturday evening.

13.03.2008 (Saturday)
Day 8:
Ladie's. Semifinal, 19:00
D

USA -

Sweden 1-6

Sweden-s Anna Hasselborg was in top form on Saturday evening, dominating Alexandra Carlson-s American side with steal after steal to win the junior women-s semi-final 6-1

14.03.2008 (Sunday)
Day 9:
Bronze Medal Game, 09:00
D

Switzerland -

USA 7-9 (EE)

In the bronze medal game Switzerland trailed the United States up until the seventh end when Manuela Siegrist's team took four to tie the game up 6-6. Play went into an extra end with the USA having the hammer last stone advantage. But Alexandra Carlson did not need to play her last shot, as Siegrist's last stone was heavy and left the USA lying two for a 9-7 win.

"The game went pretty quick," said Alexandra Carlson afterwards, "Except for that one end where we missed our two hits and gave them four, that wasn't very fun."

"We had a lot of bad stones," explained Swiss Skip Manuela Siegrist, "It was not possible to draw for two in the tenth end."

It is Sweden's first world junior women's gold medal title in ten years. Matilda Mattsson won the last gold for Sweden in 2000 in Geising, Germany.

For the USA, it is their first junior women's medal title since 2003, when Cassandra Johnson took silver when the junior championships were last staged in Flims.

Ladie's. Gold Medal Game, 09:00
B

Sweden -

Canada 8-3

Sweden won the junior women's gold medal at the World Junior Curling Championships in Flims, Switzerland. Canada took silver. In a game that went to an extra end, the USA won bronze over Switzerland.

The junior women's final started off looking as if it was going the Canadian's way, but Sweden's Anna Hasselborg turned the game around from the sixth end. Sweden took a point in the sixth end, two steals of two in the seventh and eighth and a final steal of one in the ninth end, taking the score to 8-3 for victory.

"I played my best game this time," said Anna Hasselborg after the win. "We knew that if we just played our best, we were going to go on top. You just see the shots and you make them."

For Canada, there was bitter disappointment after a very strong performance throughout the round robin and playoffs stage of the championships where they lost only one match on the road to the final. Stunned Skip Rachel Homan simply said "We just didn't curl our game today."

World Junior Women's Curling Teams 2010:

- Germany
Team line-up: Corinna Schotz (skip), Martina Linder, Leah Andrews, Angelina Terrey, Sina Hiltensberger
Coach:

- Canada
Team line-up: Rachel Homan (skip), Emma Miskew, Laura Crocker, Lynn Kreviazuk, Alison Kreviazuk
Coach:

- China
Team line-up: Sijia Liu (skip), Jinli Liu, Chunmei Zheng, Yilun Jiang, Qiutong She
Coach:

- Russia
Team line-up: Anna Sidorova (skip), Margarita Fomina, Ekaterina Antonova, Ekaterina Galkina, Galina Arsen'kina
Coach: Olga Andrianova

- USA
Team line-up: Sean Beighton (skip), Derrick McLean, Sam Galey, Joe Purvis, Aaron Tasa
Coach:

- France
Team line-up: Marie Coulot (skip), Solene Coulot, Anna Li, Manon Humbert
Coach:

- Czech Rep.
Team line-up: Anna Kubeskova (skip), Tereza Pliskova, Martina Strnadova, Zuzana Hajkova, Veronika Herdova
Coach:

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Manuela Siegrist (skip), Imogen Lehmann, Claudia Hug, Janine Wyss, Corinne Rupp
Coach:

- Sweden
Team line-up: Anna Hasselborg (skip), Jonna McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sara McManus, Anna Huhta
Coach:

- Scotland
Team line-up: Lauren Gray (skip), Claire MacDonald, Tasha Aitken, Caitlin Barr, Anna Sloan
Coach:

Men's Competition

Russian Junior Men's Curling Team 2010:
- Alexey Stukalskiy
- Artem Bolduzev (skip)
- Victor Kornev
- Vadim Raev
- Evgeniy Arhipov (alternate)
Coach: Yuri Andrianov

Men's. Day by Day:

Final Standings of World Men's Junior Curling Championship 2010

06.03.2008 (Saturday)
Day 1:
Men's, 14:00
At the opening day of the World Junior Curling Championships in Flims Switzerland, the first junior men-s round robin draw saw Norway strike out an early lead in their game against Scotland with a steal of one in the first end and a steal of four in the third end. Scotland struggled to catch up and the game ended on 9-3.
A Russia - Sweden 7-9

China -

USA 5-3
After a defensive start, the USA opened the score against China in the fifth end with a steal of one. The game went into the 10th end with the Chinese taking three and winning 5-3.
C

Denmark -

Switzerland 7-8
D

Scotland -

Norway 3-9
E

Canada -

Finland 6-2

07.03.2008 (Sunday)
Day 2:
Men's, 09:00
A

Canada -

China 4-6
B

Switzerland -

Finland 9-4
C Russia - Scotland 5-6

Denmark -

Sweden 3-8
E

USA -

Norway 5-7

Men's, 19:00
A

Norway -

Finland 10-8
B

Sweden -

Scotland 1-6
C

USA -

Canada 3-5
D Switzerland - Russia 9-1

Denmark -

China 6-7

08.03.2008 (Monday)
Day 3:
Men's, 14:00
Six of the ten competing junior men-s teams are tied up on three wins and one loss after the fourth draw of the junior men-s round robin at the World Championships in Flims.
A

Sweden -

USA 13-2
In their game against the USA, the Swedes were 8-1 up going into the fifth end having stolen four points in the fourth end. Sweden-s Patric Mabergs, who at 18 years and one month, is the youngest junior men-s skip here, had a simple draw for five in the sixth end after the USA missed lots of shots. The game folded at that point with Sweden winning 13-2.
B Denmark - Russia 9-7 (EE)

Denmark-Russia was a much tighter game. With Russian skip Artem Bolduzev looking for win to get off the bottom of the rankings. Alexey Stukalskiy, playing fourth stones for Russia, managed to tie the game up 7-7 in the tenth end. Denmark took two in the extra end and won 9-7.
C

China -

Finland 2-6
D

Norway -

Canada 5-9
In the remake of the men-s gold medal game in Vancouver, Norway took on Canada in this draw. Canadian Skip Jake Walker kept ahead in the first half of the game but Norway took three in the sixth end to lead 5-4. It was short lived as Walker secured four points in the seventh and a stole one in the ninth to win 9-5.
E

Scotland -

Switzerland 5-3
Scotland and Switzerland was another tight game. By the ninth end Scotland was leading 5-3. Scottish Skip Ally Fraser left the Swiss in the tenth end unable to make the two points they would have needed to tie the game up, so the final score was 5-3.

09.03.2008 (Tueday)
Day 4:
Men's, 09:00
Canada, Norway and Scotland top the standings with five wins and one loss following draw 6 of the junior men-s round robin at the World Junior Championships.
A

Denmark -

Canada 6-11
B

USA -

Switzerland 5-7
C

Sweden -

Norway 5-6
D

China -

Scotland 3-6
E Finland - Russia 6-7 (EE)

Russian's had their first win of the event, beating Finland 7-6 in an extra end.

Men's, 18:00
A

Finland -

Scotland 4-5
Finland had another tight game against Scotland in the evening which went down to the last stone of the tenth end, when Scottish Skip Ally Fraser hit for one and a 5-4 win.
B Russia - Norway 4-6

In a game with an extraordinary ending at night, Russia kept ahead of Norway until the tenth end when fourth Markus Hoeiberg secured four points and a win of 6-4 for the Norwegians.
C

Switzerland -

China 5-6
D

USA -

Denmark 4-10
The United States continued their losing streak going down twice on Tuesday - 5-7 in the morning against Switzerland and then they let Denmark get away early at night and lost 10-4, to leave them without a the only team at the championships without a win so far.
E

Sweden -

Canada 5-6
It was a second loss of the day for Sweden who went down in the morning 5-6 against Norway.

10.03.2008 (Wednesday)
Day 5:
Men's, 14:00
Norway and Scotland are tied at the top of the junior men-s standings with two draws of the round robin left to go at the World Junior Curling Championships. At this point they are still not guaranteed a place in the playoffs scheduled for midday Saturday. Canada, China and Switzerland, all tied on five wins and two losses and Sweden with four win and three losses still have a chance of making it through.
Denmark, Finland, Russia are now playing to avoid facing having to qualify for next year-s world juniors through the European Junior Challenge.

A China - Russia 4-2

China kept their hopes of a playoff place alive with a 4-2 against Russia.
B

Finland -

Sweden 6-7 (EE)
The game between Finland and Sweden went to an extra end with Finland's fourth player Kasper Hakunti tying the game up 6-6 in the tenth and Sweden scoring one for the win in the last end.
C

Scotland -

USA 8-3
Scotland beat the USA 6-3 with Scottish skip Ally Fraser securing three in the fifth end and steals of one in the eighth and ninth ends.
D

Canada -

Switzerland 7-9
Switzerland's Peter de Cruz played a strong game on Wednesday against Canada, managing to upset Canada's Jake Walker with four points taken in the seventh end. Walker hit and rolled with his last shot instead of sticking and the Swiss won 9-7.
E

Norway -

Denmark 7-5
The game between Norway and Denmark saw both sides making mistakes with stones flashing through the house. Despite leading 4-3 at half time, Denmark were unable to keep their lead and the Norwegians won in the tenth end 7-5.

11.03.2008 (Thursday)
Day 6:
Men's, 08:00
Scotland, China and Switzerland are through to the playoff stage of the junior men-s competition at the World Junior Curling Championships.
A

Switzerland -

Norway 6-3
Homeside Switzerland had beaten Norway in the morning 6-3 and had a close encounter with Sweden in the evening that went down to the last stone of the tenth end, with Peter de Cruz-s team securing the point they needed to win 5-4.
B

Scotland -

Canada 4-2
C

Finland -

Denmark 8-4
D

Sweden -

China 2-7
E

Russia -

USA 3-7
Russians were beaten by the United States 7-3 marking the only win of the Championships for Sean Beighton's team. Russia will have to play in the European Junior Curling Challenge 2011 in order to have a chance of competing at next year-s World Junior Championships.

Men's, 17:00
A

Scotland -

Denmark 8-3
Ally Fraser and his team added another two wins to their name on Thursday beating Canada 4-2 in a very close game in the morning and then going on to beat Denmark 8-3 in just seven ends in the evening.
B

Norway -

China 3-8
China were also on winning form, curbing Sweden hopes of a playoff place in the earlier draw with a 7-2 win. At night Yansong Ji beat Norway 8-3 in seven ends.
C

Canada -

Russia 4-3

Russia played a defensive game against Canada at night. But the Canadians eventually pulled away to win 4-3.
D

Finland -

USA 8-2
E

Switzerland -

Sweden 5-4

12.03.2008 (Friday)
Day 7:
Men's. Tie-break
Canada knocked Norway out of contention for a place in the junior men's playoffs at the World Junior Curling Championships winning their tiebreaker game 8-4 on Friday afternoon.
C

Canada -

Norway 8-4

Jake Walker's team had the upper hand throughout much of the game with Norway's Steffen Mellemseter managing to tie the score up 4-4 in the 7th end. Canada went on to take three points in the eighth end and steal of one in the ninth to win the game.

Canada will now meet Switzerland in the 3 v 4 playoff scheduled for midday on Saturday.

Final Standings after Round Robin

13.03.2008 (Saturday)
Day 8:
Men's. Page Play-Off. 1v2, 12:00 Scotland-s Junior Men-s team beat China 6-3 in the 1v2 playoff on Saturday to go straight through to the final of the World Junior Curling Championships.
C

Scotland -

China 6-3

Men's. Page Play-Off. 3v4, 12:00
B

Canada -

Switzerland 4-5

Men's. Semifinal, 20:00
D

China -

Switzerland 3-4

In a defensive game, China-s Yansong Ji contained Peter de Cruz-s Swiss team in the junior men-s semi-final up until the end of the ninth end when the score was 3-2. When China played their last stone there were three Swiss stones in the house. China-s final hit lay open, rather than rolling, leaving Switzerland with a simple hit for the two points needed to put them in the final.

14.03.2008 (Sunday)
Day 9:
Men's. Bronze Medal Game, 13:00
B

Canada -

China 7-1

In the junior men's bronze medal game Canada dominated China winning 7-1 in eight ends. It was the first time ever that China had made it to a junior men's world curling championship medal game.
Speaking after the game Chinese lead Wenli Guo said "We are young and we enjoyed getting this far." Canadian Skip Jake Walker said "Our goal coming into this was to make the playoffs. Winning bronze is good for us, we'd like to win gold but this is a good alternative." He added "We were told coming into this to expect the same competition as we had at nationals and that's what we got."

Men's. Gold Medal Game, 13:00
C

Scotland -

Switzerland 6-7

Switzerland junior men-s team won the Gold at the World Junior Curling Championships in Flims on Sunday with Scotland taking silver and Canada beating China to win the bronze.

In a final full of suspense, both teams were tied up 2-2 at the end of the fourth end, 4-4 at the end of the sixth and 6-6 in the ninth. Going in to the tenth the Scots had the hammer last stone advantage.

With Switzerland's final shot in the tenth, fourth player Benoit Schwarz nudged out the Scottish stone that had been lying shot on the button, leaving two Swiss stones frozen together to give Scottish skip Ally Fraser a really difficult attempt to remove them.

Fraser's weighted strike hit the first Swiss stone but jammed the second, leaving the second Swiss stone on the button to score the one shot needed for the win and the world championship title.

"It's amazing it's really the fruit of a lot of work," said Swiss skip Peter de Cruz on winning the game. "We all played together as a team really well." It is Switzerland's first junior men's gold medal title since Ralph Stoeckli skipped the Swiss junior men to victory in 1997 in Karuizawa, Japan.

Already de Cruz has his sights set on higher things "We still have some work ahead of us to arrive at the level of our national coach Ralph Stoeckli and his performance at the Olympic Games." The Swiss took bronze in Vancouver.
Scottish coach Tom Brewster gave his view of the last end saying "They got into a bit of difficulty and the Swiss played an absolutely perfect shot to give Ally no shot at all, it was absolutely first rate. That's curling for you."

World Junior Men's Curling Teams:

- Denmark
Team line-up: Mikkel Krause (skip), Oliver Dupont, Tobias Thune, Troels Harry, Kasper Jorgensen
Coach:

- Canada
Team line-up: Jake Walker (skip), Craig Van Ymeren, Geoff Chambers, Matthew Mapletoft, Mathew Camm
Coach:

- China
Team line-up: Yansong Ji (skip), Jihui Huang, Dexin Ba, Wenli Guo, Yujun Han
Coach:

- Norway
Team line-up: Markus Snove Hoiberg, Steffen Mellemseter (skip), Steffen Walstad, Magnus Nedregotten, Truls Rolvsjord
Coach:

- Russia
Team line-up: Alexey Stukalskiy, Artem Bolduzev (skip), Viktor Kornev, Vadim Raev, Evgeniy Arkhipov
Coach:

- USA
Team line-up: Alexandra Carlson (skip), Tabitha Peterson, Tara Peterson, Sophie Brorson, Miranda Solem
Coach:

- Finland
Team line-up: Kasper Hakunti, Iiro Sipola (skip), Oskari Ainol, Kalle Wallin, Toni Ylhainen
Coach: Esko Sinisalo

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Peter de Cruz (skip), Benoit Schwarz, Roger Gulka, Valentin Tanner, Dominik Marki
Coach:

- Sweden
Team line-up: Patric Mabergs (skip), Gustav Eskilsson, Jesper Johansson, Victor Herlin, Johannes Patz
Coach:

- Scotland
Team line-up: Ally Fraser (skip), Steven Mitchell, Scott Andrews, Kerr Drummond, Blair Fraser
Coach:

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