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These Championships were due to have taken place in March, but postponed because of Swedish Covid regulations, and are now set for 15th May to 22nd May in Jönköping, Sweden, which was the original venue. The city is famous for one person more than any other and it is Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA who was born there. Did ye ken that, Agnetha? (in Scottish) Eh, what was that? (in Swedish).


Men's Teams: Canada, Germany, Italy, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
The Scottish team is James Craik (Skip), Angus Bryce (Vice-Skip), Scott Hyslop (2nd), Niall Ryder (Lead) with Alternate Jack Carrick. Angus Bryce is another player from my local ice rink to play in the top championships this year.

In the opening games on Sunday, Scotland will play Korea at 9am and United States at 7pm, then New Zealand at 2pm on Monday.

Women's Teams: Canada, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and United States. The Scots only made into the Championships following the expulsion of the Russian Curling Federation and the withdrawal of the first reserve, Hungary. They were originally down to compete in the B Championships in Lohja, Finland in January, but they were cancelled due to a Covid outbreak during the competition.
The Scottish team is Fay Henderson (Skip), Katie McMillan (Vice-Skip), Lisa Davie (2nd), Holly Wilkie-Milne (Lead) and Alternate Robyn Mitchell.

In this competition, Scotland only play 1 game on Sunday and that is against Canada at 2pm, with 2 games on Monday - versus United States at 9am and Switzerland at 7pm.

The round-robin section finishes on Friday 20 May, with the Semi-finals on Saturday 21 May and the Finals on Sunday 22 May.