Curling in Russia - 2008 World Men's Curling Championship. Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA

From 5 to 13th of april in North Dacota, USA take place a World Men's Curling 2008 World Men's Curling Championship

- Round Robin Final Standings - Day by day - Teams -

12.04.2008 (Saturday)
Nineth day:
It was the 41-year-old Martin’s first world crown, after years of disappointment, while settling for silver at the 1986 world juniors, 1991 worlds and 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
14:30am (22:30 - Moscow time). Final
After a blanked first end, Murdoch missed a runback double, allowing Martin to steal one. In the third, the 29-year-old Scottish skip hit and rolled too far with his last, counting only one instead of a possible deuce.
Martin then blanked the fourth end, before taking a pair in the fifth with an angle raise, chipping out a Murdoch counter, for a 3-1 lead at the break. The sixth end was blanked before another Martin steal in the seventh made it 4-1. In the eighth end, Murdoch was able to score a deuce to make it a 4-3 game.
However, in the ninth Martin made a nose hit double to count two, after a measure, for a commanding 6-3 lead coming home. He then ran Murdoch out of rocks in the 10th for the victory.
B Canada - Scotland* 6-3
It was the 41-year-old Martin’s first world crown, after years of disappointment, while settling for silver at the 1986 world juniors, 1991 worlds and 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

* An attendance record for a United States city hosting a world curling championship was also set, with a final total of 48,699 fans!

Highlights of this wondeful match you can see on our Video page.

12.04.2008 (Saturday)
Eight day:
14:30am (22:30 - Moscow time). Semifinal
D Norway - Canada* 4-5

20:00pm (04:00 - Moscow time). Bronze medal game
Norway won the bronze medal at the world men’s curling championship Saturday evening defeating China, 8-3 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Skipped by Oslo’s Thomas Ulsrud, Norway, coming off a 5-4 loss to Canada’s Kevin Martin in the semi-final Saturday afternoon, rebounded to defeat Fengchun Wang’s team for the second consecutive time.

A China - Norway* 3-8

11.04.2008 (Friday)
Seventh day:
15:00am (23:00 - Moscow time).
B China* - Norway 5-7

20:00pm (04:00 - Moscow time).
Scotland’s David Murdoch rallied in the second half to edge Canada’s Kevin Martin 7-6 in the Page Playoff 1 vs 2 game Friday evening at the men's curling championship to advance to Sunday’s final.

C Canada* - Scotland 6-7

Round Robin Final Standigs:

10.04.2008 (Thursday)
Sixth day:
10:00am
A China* - Australia 5-3
B Switzerland - Canada* 6-8
C France* - Sweden 5-7
D Germany - Denmark* 10-7

03:00pm
A USA* - Switzerland 7-8
B Norway* - China 7-8
C Scotland* - Germany 5-3
D Czech Rep.* - France 3-10

08:00pm
A Denmark - Scotland* 4-7
B Sweden - Czech Rep.* 8-6
C Canada* - USA 10-4
D Australia - Norway* 7-9

09.04.2008 (Wednesday)
Fifth day:
10:00am
A Germany* - Sweden 5-6
B France* - Denmark 7-4
C Switzerland* - Australia 6-7
D China - Canada* 6-5 (ЕЕ)

03:00pm
A Canada - Czech Rep.* 6-1
B Australia - Scotland* 4-6
C Denmark - Norway* 3-7
D Sweden - USA* 6-8

08:00pm
A Norway - France* 6-4
B USA* - Germany 8-5
C Czech Rep.* - China 3-7
D Scotland - Switzerland* 6-4

08.04.2008 (Tuesday)
Forth day:
10:00am
A Australia* - USA 6-4
B Canada* - Norway 9-8 (ЕЕ)
C Sweden - Scotland* 7-11
D Denmark - Czech Rep.* 8-7

03:00pm
A Scotland* - China 8-2
B Czech Rep.* - Switzerland 7-8
C USA - France* 5-6
D Norway* - Germany 7-6

08:00pm
A Switzerland* - Denmark 4-7
B Germany - Canada* 4-9
C China* - Sweden 8-2
D France - Australia* 6-4

07.04.2008 (Monday)
Third day:
10:00am
A Czech Rep.* - Germany 7-9
B Scotland - France* 5-4
C Norway* - Switzerland 9-8
D USA - China* 9-8 (ЕЕ)

03:00pm
A France* - Canada 2-8
B Germany - Australia* 3-5
C China - Denmark* 8-5
D Switzerland* - Sweden 5-4

08:00pm
A Sweden* - Norway 5-7 (ЕЕ)
B Denmark* - USA 7-6
C Australia - Czech Rep.* 8-5
D Canada* - Scotland 6-5

06.04.2008 (Sunday)
Second day:
10:00am
B Scotland* - Norway 10-6
C Czech Rep.* - USA 7-6

03:00pm
A Australia - Denmark* 10-7
B China* - Switzerland 7-5
C France - Germany* 5-8
D Sweden* - Canada 5-8

23:00 (06:00 - Moscow time)
A USA* - Scotland 7-6
B Denmark* - Sweden 9-5
C Canada* - Australia 9-3
D Norway* - Czech Rep. 8-4

05.04.2008 (Saturday)
First day:
03:00pm
A Norway* - USA 6-8
B France - China* 7-2
C Germany - Switzerland* 9-8
D Czech Rep.* - Scotland 7-5

08:00pm
A Switzerland - France* 1-7
B Sweden - Australia* 6-5
C Denmark - Canada* 3-9
D Germany* - China 11-5

Schedule of World Men's Curling Championship 2008

Teams are:

- Australia
Team: Hugh Millikin (skip), Ian Palangio, Sean Hall, Stephen Johns, Steve Hewitt
Coach: Earle Morris

- Denmark
Team: Johnny Frederiksen (skip), Lars Vilandt, Bo Jensen, Ulrik Schmidt, Mikkel Poulsen
Coach:

- Germany
Team: Andreas Kapp (skip), Andreas Lang, Holger Hohne, Andreas Kempf, Felix Schulze
Coach: Oliver Axnick

- Canada
Team: Kevin Martin (skip), John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, Adam Enright
Coach: Jules Owchar

- China
Team: Fengchun Wang (skip), Riu Liu, Xiaoming Xu, Jialang Zang, Dongyan Li
Coach: Daniel Rafael

- Norway
Team: Thomas Ulsrud (skip), Torger Nergard, Christoffer Svae, Havard vad Petersson, Thomas Due
Coach: Ole Ingvaldsen

- USA
Team: Craig Brown (skip), Rich Ruohonen, John Dunlop, Pete Annis, Kevin Kakela
Coach: Steve Brown

- Czech Rep.
Team: Jirl Snitil (skip), Martin Snitl, Jindrich Kitzberger, Marek Vydra, Milos Hoferka
Coach: Sune Frederiksen

- France
Team: Thomas Dufour (skip), Tony Angiboust, Jan Ducroz, Richard, Ducroz, Raphael Mathieu
Coach: Andre Ferland

- Switzerland
Team: Claudio Pescia (skip), Patrick Huerlimann, Pascal Sieber, Marco Battaliana, Toni Mueller
Coach: Heinz Schmid

- Sweden
Team: Anders Kraupp (skip), Peder Folke, Bjorn Brandberg, Anton Sandstrom, Mats Nyberg
Coach: Stefan Hassenborg

- Scotland
Team: David Murdoch (skip), Graeme Connal, Peter Smith, Euan Byers, Peter Laudan
Coach: David Hay

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