Curling in Russia - 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Chelyabinsk, Russia

World Mixed Doubles and Senior World Curling Championships 2010 are staged in Chelyabinsk region from 17 April until 24 April.

- First time a World Curling Championships has been staged in Russia
- First an international or world competition has been held in the South Urals
- Ice Palace «Ural Lightning» hosts World Curling Championships

The official host agreement for holding two World Championships (the Mixed Doubles and the Seniors) in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region was signed at the meeting of the World Curling Federation in Aberdeen, Scotland on December 12, 2009.

These are the first major international championships to be staged in Russia and are the highlight, so far, of the 19 year history of the Russian Curling Federation and curling development in the country. It is also the first time that a major international sports championship has been held in the Chelyabinsk region.

CANADA, KOREA, NORWAY, SCOTLAND and SWEDEN – officially withdrawn from the World Mixed Doubles event. All remaining competing teams are in Chelyabinsk.

From left to right: Yana Nekrasova, Irina Kolesnikova (coach), Petr Dron

- Day by Day / Teams -

18.04.2009 (Sunday)
Day 1:
07:00 (here and after Moscow time)
A X
B X
C

Australia -

China 4-7
D X
E X

11:00
A

New Zealand -

Austria 11-3
B

Estonia -

Hungary 6-7
C X
D X
E

Spain -

Italy 9-3

15:00
A

Slovakia -

China 2-11
B X
C Russia - Japan 7-4

D X
E X

19.04.2009 (Monday)
Day 2:
07:00
A X
B X
C

Switzerland -

Austria 9-1
D

Finland -

Estonia 3-6
E X

11:00
A

Spain -

England 9-1
B X
C X
D

Japan -

Australia 3-9
E

Slovakia -

USA 2-12

15:00
A X
B Russia - China 7-5

C X
D

Austria -

Denmark 10-9
E

Switzerland -

New Zealand 11-5

20.04.2009 (Tuesday)
Day 3:
07:00
A

Estonia -

Italy 9-11
B X
C

Hungary -

Spain 6-7
D Russia - USA 7-3

Latvia -

China 4-9

11:00
A

Czech Rep. -

Denmark 8-9
B

Australia -

USA 6-3
C

Japan -

Slovakia 6-10
D X
E X

15:00
A X
B

Spain -

Estonia 5-7
C

Finland -

England 9-10
D

Italy -

Hungary 9-6
E

Japan -

Latvia 7-6

21.04.2009 (Wednesday)
Day 4:
07:00
A

Australia -

Latvia 8-4
B X
C

China -

USA 13-5
D X
E Russia - Slovakia 10-6

11:00
A

Italy -

Finland 2-11
B

New Zealand -

Denmark 8-2
C

England -

Estonia 4-6
D X
E X

15:00
A

USA -

Japan 7-4
B

Slovakia -

Australia 2-7
C Latvia - Russia 5-7

D X
E

Czech Rep. -

Austria 9-4

22.04.2009 (Thursday)
Day 5:
07:00
A X
B

Hungary -

Finland 9-3
C

Italy -

England 8-5
D

Latvia -

Slovakia 9-7
E Australia - Russia 4-8

11:00
A

Switzerland -

Czech Rep. 9-0
B X
C X
D X
E

Finland -

Spain 8-9

17:00
A

England -

Hungary 5-7
B

China -

Japan 4-8
C

Denmark -

Switzerland 6-7
D

New Zealand -

Czech Rep. 8-7
E

USA -

Latvia 9-8

23.04.2009 (Friday)
Day 5:
Tie-breaker Games, 06:30
D

Austria -

Denmark 3-8

Tie-breaker Games, 09:30
A

Czech Rep. -

Denmark 8-6
B

Estonia -

Hungary 9-8

Qualifiation Game, 13:30
E

Czech Rep. -

Estonia 7-12

Quater-Finals, 17:30
GAME 2 - 2nd of the 1st ranked teams v 1st of the 3rd ranked teams
A

New Zealand -

Italy 10-4
GAME 3 - 3rd of the 1st ranked teams v 3rd of the 2nd ranked teams
B Australia - Russia 4-8
GAME 1 - 1st of the 1st ranked teams v winner qualification game
D

Spain -

Estonia 8-7 (EE)
GAME 4 - 1st of the 2nd ranked teams v 2nd of the 2nd ranked teams
E

Switzerland -

China 7-11

24.04.2009 (Saturday)
Day 6:
Semifinals, 07:00
B

Russia -

China 16-4

Spain -

New Zealand 3-10

Bronze Medal Game, 12:00
C

Spain -

China 7-8 (EE)
The bronze medal game was just as full of suspense. With China's Yue Sun and Zhipeng Zhang, taking on the Spanish duo, 15 year old Sergio Vez and teammate Irantzu GarcМa. The game also went all the way into an extra end of play, with the Chinese stealing the final point to win 8-7.

"We encouraged each other all the way and are very excited that we won," said Zhipeng Zhang afterwards. "We really had to believe in each other."

Gold Medal Game, 12:00
B

New Zealand -

Russia 7-9 (EE)
In front of a crowd of over 1,500 gathered in the Ural Lightning Ice Palace, Yana Nekrasova and teammate Petr Dron beat the New Zealand pair, Sean and Bridget Becker, 9-7 in the final.

Afterwards Nekrasova said she was overwhelmed by the win and the amount of interest their performance at the world championship had raised in Russia. She said the New Zealanders played extremely well and that they were a tough team to beat and that it was not an easy win.

"We let the Russian-s runaway with it a bit from the start," said New Zealand-s Bridget Becker after the game. "But it's unbelievable to have made it this far, so we-re very happy with silver."

It is the first World Curling Championship medal for New Zealand.

Russia had a four point lead by the second end but New Zealand came charging back to take one point in the fourth end, steal three in the fourth and steal a further point in the fifth end to lead 5-4. The teams traded twos in the sixth and seventh ends. Russia managed to tie the game up 7-7 in the eighth end and force an extra end where they stole two points for the win when New Zealand missed their last shot.

Group A (Blue Group).

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Toni Muller, Irene Schori
Coach: Lorne Hamblin

- Czech Rep.
Team line-up: Karel Kubeska, Anna Kubeskova
Coach: Jiri Candra

- Sweden (Withdrawn)

- New Zealand
Team line-up: Sean Becker, Bridget Becker
Coach: Scott Becker

- Denmark
Team line-up: Martin Uhd Gronbech, Christine Svensen
Coach:

- Корея (Withdrawn)

- Austria
Team line-up: Marcus Schmitt, Liliana Schmitt
Coach:

Group B (Red Group).

- Hungary
Team line-up: Peter Sardi, Agnes Patonai
Coach: Dorottya Mester

- Finland
Team line-up: Peter Landgren, Lotta Norri
Coach:

- Scotland (Withdrawn)

- Estonia
Team line-up: Martin Lill, Kristiine Lill
Coach: Toomas Lill

- Italy
Team line-up: Marco Pascale, Lucrezia Laurenti
Coach:

- England
Team line-up: John Sharp, Jane Clark
Coach: James Clark

- Norway (Withdrawn)

- Spain
Team line-up: Sergio Vez Labrador, Irantzu Garcia Vez
Coach:

Group C (Green Group).

- Canada (Withdrawn)

- China
Team line-up: Zhipeng Shang, Yue Sun
Coach: Daniel Rafael

- Russia
Team line-up: Petr Dron, Yana Nekrasova
Coach: Irina Kolesnikova

- Latvia
Team line-up: Ansis Regza, Dace Regza
Coach:

- Japan
Team line-up: Naomasa Takeda, Tomoko Takeda
Coach: Natsuki Saito

- USA
Team line-up: Mike Calcagno, Sharon Vukich
Coach:

- Australia
Team line-up: Hugh Millikin, Kim Forge
Coach: Sandy Gagnon

- Slovakia
Team line-up: Milan Kajan, Gabriela Kajanova
Coach: Martina Kajanova

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