Curling in Russia - 2010 World Seniors 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.

Teams from WALES, NETHERLANDS, SCOTLAND and ESTONIA have officially withdrawn from Men’s Seniors. SCOTLAND has officially withdrawn from Women’s Seniors. All remaining competing teams are now in Chelyabinsk.

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

18.04.2009 (Sunday)
Day 1:
Women's, 08:00 (here and after Moscow time)
F

Canada -

Italy 14-0
G

Sweden -

New Zealand 9-7
H

USA -

Switzerland 5-7
I X
Men's
J X
K

Hungary -

Australia 7-5 (EE)

Men's, 12:00
F X
G USA - Russia 13-0

H X
I X
J

Canada -

Switzerland 7-4
K

Italy -

New Zealand 5-4

Women's, 16:00
H

Sweden -

Canada 5-10
I

New Zealand -

Switzerland 0-12
J X
K Russia - Japan 1-15

Men's
F X
G

Hungary -

Japan 2-4

19.04.2009 (Monday)
Day 2:
Men's, 08:00
F

Switzerland -

Italy 6-2
G X
H X
I

Finland -

New Zealand 4-9
J X
K X

Women's, 12:00
F

Sweden -

Japan 4-10
G USA - Russia 9-4

Canada -

Switzerland 10-2
K X
Men's
H

Hungary -

USA 3-6
I X

Men's, 16:00
F

Canada -

New Zealand 10-2
G

Sweden -

Italy 16-1
H X
I Russia - Australia 3-8
J X
K X

20.04.2009 (Tuesday)
Day 3:
Women's, 08:00
F X
G

Canada -

7-4
H

Italy -

USA 7-6
J Russia - Sweden 1-11

K X

Men's, 12:00
F

England -

Australia 4-6
G X
H X
I X
J

Sweden -

Canada 5-6
K

Switzerland -

Finland 7-2

Women's, 16:00
F

Italy -

Sweden 2-7
G X
I

Russia -

Canada 0-14
K

New Zealand -

USA 4-9
Men's
H

Australia -

Japan 7-3
J X

21.04.2009 (Wednesday)
Day 4:
Women's, 08:00
F Switzerland - Russia 11-1

Japan -

USA 4-6 (EE)
H X
J

Italy -

New Zealand 6-7
Men's
I Japan - Russia 7-5

USA -

England 8-2

Men's, 12:00
F

Finland -

Canada 5-10
G X
H X
I

Switzerland -

Sweden 7-6
J X
K X

Women's, 16:00
F

USA -

Canada 1-11
H

Japan -

New Zealand 8-2
I

Switzerland -

Italy 8-2
J X
Men's
G

England -

Hungary 3-8
K X

22.04.2009 (Thursday)
Day 5:
Men's, 07:00
G

Italy -

Finland 6-7 (EE)
H X
I X
J Russia - Hungary 7-10

New Zealand -

Switzerland 2-7
Women's
F

Japan -

Switzerland 5-8 (EE)

Women's, 12:00
G Russia - Italy 8-7 (EE)

Sweden -

USA 4-9
K

Canada -

New Zealand 10-3
Men's
F

Sweden -

Finland 12-1
H

Italy -

Canada 3-11
J

USA -

Australia 8-5

Men's, 17:00
F Russia - England 6-5

Japan -

USA 3-7
J

New Zealand -

Sweden 2-9
Women's
H New Zealand - Russia 10-8

Japan -

Italy 1-10
K

Switzerland -

Sweden 4-7

23.04.2009 (Friday)
Day 5:
Tie-breaker Games #1, 06:30
K

Hungary -

Japan 8-5

Tie-breaker Games #2, 10:30
I

Hungary -

Australia 2-8

Women's. Semifinal's, 15:30
G

Canada -

Sweden 8-2
H

Switzerland -

USA 6-4

Men's. Semifinal's, 15:30
J

Canada -

Australia 3-2
K

USA -

Switzerland 8-5

24.04.2009 (Saturday)
Day 6:
Women's. Bronze Medal Game, 09:30
K

Sweden -

USA 6-5
Sweden's Ingrid Meldahl who won the championship in 2006 and 2007 was content with this year's bronze finish.

After the game Melhahl said "Today was the first really good game we played. We were totally focussed. We were good on the ice with good speeds. The USA played better than the other day when we met them."

Men's. Bronze Medal Game, 09:30
J

Australia -

Switzerland 4-3 (EE)
In the Bronze medal games, curling history was made with Australia winning their first curling world championship medal.

"I'm speechless which is unusual for me!", said Australian Skip Hugh Millikin after the game, which was the third of the senior medal games to go into an extra end of play.

"The Swiss played very very well and it came down to the wire. It's the first medal for Australia in World Championship Curling!! Not bad, it took me twenty years, but it's not bad!"

Women's. Gold Medal Game, 09:30
G

Canada -

Switzerland 8-4 (EE)
Colleen Pinkney, skip of the Canadian senior women's team, was more reserved about their win against Renate Nedkoff's Swiss side.

"We felt a little nervous, I don't feel we curled our best game at all. I give the Swiss credit. They curled very well and put pressure on us all the time", said Pinkney after the game, which like the men's final, went to an extra end.

"They came out on fire and we did not and we were making a lot of half shots. I think we only felt confident when we forced them to take one in the eighth and went to an extra end."

Men's. Gold Medal Game, 09:30
H

Canada -

USA 3-4 (EE)
"I'm elated it's a fantastic feeling, after all that practise and all that work that we-ve done in the last couple of years and actually all the practise in my entire life", said Paul Pustovar, skip of the American senior men's team on winning the final.

Pustovar has represented the USA at five world men's championships and at his first world senior's last year he took silver. The win in Russia is the second world senior championship title for the USA in the eight year history of the event. (USA won in 2002).

Men's Teams

Group A (Blue)

- Canada
Team line-up: Bruce Delaney (skip), Rick Bachand, Duncan Jamieson, George Mitchell

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Andre Pauli (skip), Fritz Pulfer, Pierre Zurcher, Daniel Grunenfelder

- Sweden
Team line-up: Karl Nordlund (skip), Goran Roxin, Wolger Johansson, Per-Arne Andersson, Owe Larsson

- Finland
Team line-up: Lauri Perkio (skip), Antti Sundholm, Jouko Riikonen, Jaakko Salonen, Matti Virtaala, Seppo Stark

- New Zealand
Team line-up: Peter Becker (skip), Nelson Ede, David Greer, John Sanders, Murray Petherick

- Italy
Team line-up: Carlo Carrera (skip), Bruno Mosca, Mario Bologna, Pasquale Valli, Adriano Regis

- Wales (Withdrawn)
Team line-up: Chris Wells (skip), Michael Yuille, Stewart Cairns, Pete Williams

- Netherlands (Withdrawn)
Team line-up: Wim Neeleman (skip), Frank Kerkvliet, Jos Wilmot, Bas Bennis

Group B (Red)

- USA
Team line-up: Paul Pustovar (skip), Brian Simonson, Tom Harms, Don Mohawk, Dale Gibbs

- Scotland (Withdrawn)
Team line-up: Keith Prentice (skip), Lockhart Steele, Robin Aitken, Tommy Fleming, Archie Craig

- Japan
Team line-up: Masayasu Sato (skip), Tomiyasu Goshima, Takahiro Hashimoto, Shozo Itoh, Hisashi Urashima

- Australia
Team line-up: Hugh Millikin (skip), Ted Bassett, Tom Kidd, Robert Gagnon, Dave Thomas

- Hungary
Team line-up: Andras Rokusfalvy (skip), Mihaly Veraszto, Laszlo Tolnai, Gyorgy Kalmar, Laszlo Szentgyorgyvolgyi

- England
Team line-up: John Brown (skip), Alastair MacNish, John MacDougall, Robin Gemmell, John Sharp

- Russia
Team line-up: Aleksander Kolesnikov (skip), Sergey Melnikov, Sergey Korolenko, Sergey Narudinov, Vladimir Shevchenko

- Estonia (Withdrawn)
Team line-up: Leo Jakobson (skip), Peteris Sveisbergs, Sven Petermann, Toomas Lill

Women's Teams

Group A

- Canada
Team line-up: Colleen Pinkney (skip), Wendy Currie, Karen Hennigar, Susan Creelman, Judy Burgess

- Italy
Team line-up: Susanne Carrera (skip), Lucilla Macchiati, Caterina Colucci, Roberta Masinari, Mafalda Hausberger

- Japan
Team line-up: Naomi Kawano (skip), Hideko Tanaka, Mieko Nakamura, Hiroko Oishi, Mikiko Tsuchiya

- New Zealand
Team line-up: Wendy Becker (skip), Elizabeth Matthews, Christine Bewick, Carolyn Cooney

- Russia
Team line-up: Tatyana Zaytseva (skip), Nadezda Zyablova, Lyubov Ozerova, Larisa Pismenova, Liudmila Murova

- Scotland (Withdrawn)
Team line-up: Isobel Waddell (skip), Elizabeth McCulloch, Kathleen Scott, Lynne Stevenson, Edna Nelson

- Sweden
Team line-up: Ingrid Meldahl (skip), Ann Catrin Kjerr, Birgitta Torn, Silvia Liljefors

- Switzerland
Team line-up: Renate Nedkoff (skip), Lotti Pieper, Silvia Niederer, Brigitta Keller

- USA
Team line-up: Sharon Vukich, Mary Colacchio, Susan Curtis, Betty Kozai (skip), Dani Thibodeaux

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