The 2023

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(branded as 2023 LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 18 to 26 at the Göransson Arena in

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. The format for the Championship featured a thirteen team round robin. The top six teams qualified for the playoff round where the top two teams received a bye while the remaining four played the first round.

Qualification

Thirteen curling federations qualified to participate in the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship. This was the first year to qualify teams using the new

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, with New Zealand winning entry into the World Women's Championship for the first time, represented by a team skipped by Jessica Smith.

Teams

The teams were as follows:

WCF ranking

Year to date

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order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event.

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC+01:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, March 18, 2:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, March 18, 7:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Sunday, March 19, 9:00 am''

Draw 4

''Sunday, March 19, 2:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, March 19, 7:00 pm''

Draw 6

''Monday, March 20, 9:00 am''

Draw 7

''Monday, March 20, 2:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Monday, March 20, 7:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, March 21, 9:00 am''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, March 21, 2:00 pm''

Draw 11

''Tuesday, March 21, 7:00 pm''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, March 22, 9:00 am''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, March 22, 2:00 pm''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, March 22, 7:00 pm''

Draw 15

''Thursday, March 23, 9:00 am''

Draw 16

''Thursday, March 23, 2:00 pm''

Draw 17

''Thursday, March 23, 7:00 pm''

Draw 18

''Friday, March 24, 9:00 am''

Draw 19

''Friday, March 24, 2:00 pm''

Draw 20

''Friday, March 24, 7:00 pm''

Playoffs

Qualification games

''Saturday, March 25, 10:00 am''

Semifinals

''Saturday, March 25, 4:00 pm''

Bronze medal game

''Sunday, March 26, 10:00 am''

Final

''Sunday, March 26, 3:00 pm''

Statistics

Player percentages

''Final Round Robin Percentages''

Perfect games

''Minimum 10 shots thrown''

Awards

The awards and all-star team are as follows: All-Star Team *Fourth:

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, Switzerland *Third: Cory Thiesse, United States *Second:

Mille Haslev Nordbye Mille Haslev Nordbye (born March 6, 2001) is a Norwegian curler from Lillehammer. She currently plays second on the Norwegian women's curling team, skipped by Marianne Rørvik. Career Nordbye joined the Norwegian junior women's curling team as ...

, Norway *Lead:

Giulia Zardini Lacedelli Giulia Zardini Lacedelli (born 29 January 2003 in Pieve di Cadore) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo. She is the current lead on the Italian women's curling team. She competed for Italy at the 2019 European Curling Championships and the ...

, Italy Frances Brodie Sportsmanship Award *

Bridget Becker Bridget Becker (born 1 January 1981 in Ranfurly, Otago, New Zealand) is a New Zealand female curler. On international level she is runner-up of 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, runner-up () and four-time bronze medallist (, , , ...

, New Zealand

Final standings

Based on this year's final standings, the European Curling Championship will get the 13th qualification spot at next year's

Notes

References

{{World championships in 2023 World Women's Curling Championship World Women's Championship Sports competitions in Sandviken Women's curling competitions in Sweden International curling competitions hosted by Sweden

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