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Curling At The 2017 Winter Universiade
Curling at the 2017 Winter Universiade was held from January 30 to February 7 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Medal summary Medal table Medalists Men Teams (source:) Round Robin Standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round Robin Results All draw times are listed in (UTC+6). Draw 1 ''Monday, January 30, 14:00'' Draw 2 ''Tuesday, January 31, 9:00'' Draw 3 ''Tuesday, January 31, 19:00'' Draw 4 ''Wednesday, February 1, 14:00'' Draw 5 ''Thursday, February 2, 9:00'' Draw 6 ''Thursday, February 2, 19:00'' Draw 7 ''Friday, February 3, 14:00'' Draw 8 ''Saturday, February 4, 9:00'' Draw 9 ''Saturday, February 4, 19:00'' Playoffs Semifinals ''Monday, February 6, 9:00'' Bronze Medal Game ''Monday, February 6, 16:00'' Gold Medal Game ''Tuesday, February 7, 14:00'' Final standings Women Teams (sources:) Round Robin Standings ''Final Round Robin Stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaty Arena
Almaty Arena (formerly Almaty Ice Palace) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Almaty, Kazakhstan which was opened on 18 September 2016 and seats 12,000 spectators for ice hockey. Apart from hosting ice hockey matches, the arena is venue for boxing, figure skating, basketball, concerts, and other events. It is one of the venues to host the 2017 Winter Universiade. The arena is located in the north of punched Ryskulov Avenue, to the west from Momyshuly street in the Alatau District. History Almaty's successful bid to host the 2017 Winter Universiade, coupled with its (unsuccessful) bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, drove the need to build an ice hockey arena meeting the standards of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). On 27 March 2014, the city's mayor Akhmetzhan Yessimov announced the building of the new arena for 12,000 spectators and a minor arena for 3,000. The arenas were projected to cost $170 million and $89 million respectively. Structure and facil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Winter Universiade
Winter Universiade 2017, the XXVIII Winter Universiade, was a multi-sport winter event which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 29 January to 8 February 2017. On 29 November 2011, FISU announced that Winter Universiade 2017 would be hosted in Almaty. Student-athletes from all over the world between the ages of 17 and 28 arrived in Almaty to take part in Winter Universiade organized by FISU. Host selection There were two candidates to host the event. * Almaty. This is the third time that a former soviet country has hosted the Winter Universiade. Russia hosted two times the Summer Universiade – Moscow (1973), Kazan (2013) and hosted the Winter Universiade two years later in Krasnoyarsk. * Trentino, Italy. Until 2011, Italy hosted the Universiade 9 times (4 Summer Universiades and 5 Winter Universiades). A week before the announcement of results of the bidding campaign, in connection with the economic crisis, the Italian government decided to withdraw its candidacy.As «Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Wåhlin
Jennie Frances Wåhlin (born 26 November 1997) is a Swedish curler from Huddinge. She was a longtime member of Team Isabella Wranå. She won a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as alternate for the Anna Hasselborg team. In 2018 she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Career Wåhlin played in the World Junior Curling Championships in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 as a member of Team Isabella Wranå. In 2014, her team of Wranå, Elin Lövstrand, Almida de Val and Fanny Sjöberg had a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wranå, Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at the event in 2017 where her team won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Wranå
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Career Juniors Wranå has skipped the Swedish team in four World Junior Curling Championships, in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, Fanny Sjöberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin, Sjöberg and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at it in 2017 when her and teammates Wåhlin, de Val and Sjöberg won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Duyunova
Maria Aleksandrovna Duyunova (russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Дуюно́ва; born 30 April 1990 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian female curler. Awards * World Mixed Curling Championship: gold (2016). * Russian Women's Curling Championship: silver (2008, 2009). * Russian Mixed Curling Championship: gold (2013, 2016, 2017), silver (2015). * Russian Mixed Curling Cup: gold (2014), bronze (2017). * International Class Master of Sports of Russia Master of Sports of Russia (MS) (russian: Мастер спорта России (МС)) is a sports honorary title in the Russian Federation and a direct successor to the similar Soviet classification system. To assign the title of MS prerequis ... (curling, 2016). Teams and events Women's Mixed Mixed doubles References External links * Living people 1990 births Curlers from Saint Petersburg Russian female curlers Russian curling champions World mixed curling champions Competitors at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Portunova
Yulia Alexandrova Portunova (russian: Ю́лия Алекса́ндровна Портуно́ва; born May 4, 1994) is a Russian curler from Kaliningrad. She currently plays third on Team Alina Kovaleva. She competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics as the alternate on Olympic Athletes from Russia and the third on the Russian Olympic Committee women's curling teams, skipped by Victoria Moiseeva and Alina Kovaleva respectively. She has won two medals at the World Women's Curling Championship: a bronze in and silver in . She was also the alternate for the Moiseeva rink when they won the 2016 European Curling Championships. Career Portunova broke onto the national stage at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships, where she threw fourth stones for the Russian team skipped by Alina Kovaleva. After qualifying for the tiebreaker round with a 5–4 round robin record, the Russian team won four sudden-death games en route to capturing the World Junior title. It was Russia's fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Arsenkina
Galina Petrovna Arsenkina (russian: Гали́на Петро́вна Арсе́нькина; born June 6, 1991, in Zelenograd) is a retired Russian curler from Moscow. She competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics as the second on the Olympic Athletes from Russia and Russian Olympic Committee women's curling teams, skipped by Victoria Moiseeva and Alina Kovaleva respectively. She has won two medals at the World Women's Curling Championship: a bronze in and a silver in . She was also the second on Team Moiseeva when they won the 2016 European Curling Championships. Career During her junior career, Arsenkina competed in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2009 to 2012. After failing to win a medal in their first two appearances, the Russian team was successful in 2011. The team, consisting of Arsenkina, Anna Sidorova, Olga Zyablikova, Ekaterina Antonova and Victoria Moiseeva defeated Sweden's Sara McManus 9–3 in the bronze medal game to win Russia's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uliana Vasilyeva
Uliana Yuryevna Vasilyeva (russian: Улья́на Ю́рьевна Васи́льева; born 31 July 1995) is a Russian curler. She played third for the Russian national women's curling team at the 2016 European Curling Championships, where she won a gold medal. Awards * World Junior Curling Championships: Bronze (2014). * Russian Women's Curling Championship: Gold (2019), Silver (2015), Bronze (2016). Personal life Vasilyeva is a student of the St. Petersburg Specialized School of Olympic Reserve, No. 2 (technical school). Teammates 2016 European Curling Championships * Victoria Moiseeva, ''Skip'' * Galina Arsenkina, ''Second'' * Julia Guzieva, ''Lead'' * Yulia Portunova Yulia Alexandrova Portunova (russian: Ю́лия Алекса́ндровна Портуно́ва; born May 4, 1994) is a Russian curler from Kaliningrad. She currently plays third on Team Alina Kovaleva. She competed at the 2018 and 2022 Win ..., ''Alternate'' References External links * Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sander Rølvåg
Sander Olav Rølvåg (born 4 August 1990 in Sandnessjøen, Norway) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. Career Rølvåg represented Norway as a skip at the biennal European Youth Olympic Festival in 2009, winning bronze. In 2011 he was a part of the team that secured a bronze medal at the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships. Rølvåg has represented Norway at the European Curling Championships as an alternate on two occasions, in the 2014 European Curling Championships and the 2015 European Curling Championships. In 2015 he won the gold medal at the 2015 Winter Universiade and won the inaugural 2015 World Mixed Curling Championship. Honours 2012 World Junior Curling Championships World Curling Federation World Junior Curling Championships Sportmanship Award Personal life Rølvåg is employed as a curling instructor, icemaker and commentator.2017 Ford Worlds Media Guide: Team Norway References General *All placings and results are sourced by the World Curling Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Nedregotten
Magnus Victor Nedregotten (born 24 October 1990) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He currently plays third on Team Steffen Walstad. Career Juniors Nedregotten represented Norway in three World Junior Curling Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships he played lead for the Steffen Mellemseter. The team would finish in 5th place. At the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships he played second for the team, which would win a bronze medal. At the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships, Nedregotten played third for the Norwegian team, skipped by Markus Snøve Høiberg. The team would finish 4th. Nedregotten would play on the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences team at both the 2013 and 2015 Winter Universiade, playing second in both events. In 2013, the team, skipped by Høiberg finished 4th while in 2015, the team (skipped by Walstad) would win the gold medal. Mixed doubles Nedregotten would find much of his success in mixed team and mixed doubles curli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Høiberg
Markus Snøve Høiberg (born 6 June 1991) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He was born in Oppdal. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as the alternate for the Norwegian men's team. He won a gold medal at the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship as a member of the team. Høiberg currently plays second for the Steffen Walstad rink on the World Curling Tour The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and mixed doubles curlers in the world. History The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from Jo .... Personal life Høiberg works as a financial risk analyst. References External links * * * 1991 births Living people People from Oppdal Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Norwegian male curlers Olympic curlers of Norway World curling champions Sportspeople from Oslo European curling champions Universiade medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffen Walstad
Steffen Walstad (born February 10, 1989 in Oppdal) is a Norwegian curler from Oppdal. He currently skips his own team. Career Juniors Walstad played in three World Junior Curling Championships, from 2008 to 2010 inclusive. At the 2008 World Junior Curling Championships he played third for the Kristian Rolvsfjord rink, finishing in 4th place. At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships he played second for the team, finishing in 5th place. And at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships, he played second for the Steffen Mellemseter, finishing 5th overall. Walstad has played in four Winter Universiades; playing in the 2011 Winter Universiade, he played third for Markus Høiberg, finishing 7th. The team represented Norway again at the 2013 Winter Universiade, where they improved to a fourth place finish. At the 2015 Winter Universiade, Walstad skipped the University of Oslo rink to a gold medal, defeating Russia's Evgeny Arkhipov in the final. Walstad again skipped Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
