21-10-2021, 01:32
The KUNTAI World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2021 will begin on Saturday 23 October and end on Saturday 30 October at the National Aquatic Centre, also known as the Ice Cube, in Beijing, China.
In addition to competing for a world medal, teams will be aiming to secure as many Paralympic Qualification Points in order to qualify for the Paralympics in March 2022. The 11 teams with the most points cumulated from their performance at the 2019, 2020 and 2021 World Championships will get through to the Games, with China qualifying as hosts. The 12 teams competing in the coming week are Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Norway, RCF, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
The championship will begin with a round-robin stage from Saturday until Thursday. A six-team play-off will then take place. In that play-off the teams ranked first and second at the end of the round robin progress directly to the semi-finals. Each of their opponents will be decided by a qualification round where the third ranked team will play the sixth ranked team and the fourth ranked team will play the fifth. The winners of these games advance to the semi-finals on Friday, with the bronze medal game on Saturday morning and the final on Saturday afternoon.
Scotland's team is Hugh Nibloe (Skip), Gregor Ewan (Vice-Skip), David Melrose (Second), Meggan Dawson-Farrell (Lead) and Charlotte McKenna (Alternate). Nibloe and Melrose won Silver Medals at these Championships in 2019, with Nibloe also winning Bronze in 2017, but Scotland have never won Gold since 2005, so another Gold is long overdue.
Scotland's first game is against Norway on Saturday and play Italy and then Korea on Sunday. I could quote times, but the ones on the WCF website don't make sense, unless they're playing through the night.
In addition to competing for a world medal, teams will be aiming to secure as many Paralympic Qualification Points in order to qualify for the Paralympics in March 2022. The 11 teams with the most points cumulated from their performance at the 2019, 2020 and 2021 World Championships will get through to the Games, with China qualifying as hosts. The 12 teams competing in the coming week are Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Norway, RCF, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
The championship will begin with a round-robin stage from Saturday until Thursday. A six-team play-off will then take place. In that play-off the teams ranked first and second at the end of the round robin progress directly to the semi-finals. Each of their opponents will be decided by a qualification round where the third ranked team will play the sixth ranked team and the fourth ranked team will play the fifth. The winners of these games advance to the semi-finals on Friday, with the bronze medal game on Saturday morning and the final on Saturday afternoon.
Scotland's team is Hugh Nibloe (Skip), Gregor Ewan (Vice-Skip), David Melrose (Second), Meggan Dawson-Farrell (Lead) and Charlotte McKenna (Alternate). Nibloe and Melrose won Silver Medals at these Championships in 2019, with Nibloe also winning Bronze in 2017, but Scotland have never won Gold since 2005, so another Gold is long overdue.
Scotland's first game is against Norway on Saturday and play Italy and then Korea on Sunday. I could quote times, but the ones on the WCF website don't make sense, unless they're playing through the night.
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